diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
+Version 1.0.0.1
+---------------
+
+Adjust lower bounds for the dependencies (mtl and optparse-applicative)
+
 Version 1.0
 -----------
 
diff --git a/Test/Tasty/Patterns/Eval.hs b/Test/Tasty/Patterns/Eval.hs
--- a/Test/Tasty/Patterns/Eval.hs
+++ b/Test/Tasty/Patterns/Eval.hs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 import Prelude hiding (Ordering(..))
 import Control.Monad.Reader
-import Control.Monad.Except
+import Control.Monad.Error.Class (throwError) -- see #201
 import qualified Data.Sequence as Seq
 import Data.Foldable
 import Data.List
diff --git a/tasty.cabal b/tasty.cabal
--- a/tasty.cabal
+++ b/tasty.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 --  see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                tasty
-version:             1.0
+version:             1.0.0.1
 synopsis:            Modern and extensible testing framework
 description:         Tasty is a modern testing framework for Haskell.
                      It lets you combine your unit tests, golden
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@
     base >= 4.5 && < 5,
     stm >= 2.3,
     containers,
-    mtl,
+    mtl >= 2.1.3.1,
     tagged >= 0.5,
-    optparse-applicative >= 0.11,
+    optparse-applicative >= 0.14,
     deepseq >= 1.3,
     unbounded-delays >= 0.1,
     async >= 2.0,