diff --git a/stemmer.cabal b/stemmer.cabal
--- a/stemmer.cabal
+++ b/stemmer.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:            stemmer
-Version:         0.5
+Version:         0.5.1
 Synopsis:        Haskell bindings to the Snowball stemming library.
 Description:     Haskell bindings to the Snowball stemming library.
 Category:        Natural Language Processing, Text
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 Library
     Extensions:      ForeignFunctionInterface
-    Build-Depends:   base < 4.8
+    Build-Depends:   base < 4.9
     Exposed-Modules: NLP.Stemmer, NLP.Stemmer.C
     C-Sources:
         libstemmer_c/runtime/utilities.c