diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+## 0.1.6
+
+  * Drop support for GHC prior 8.6.5
+  * Support GHC-9.10 (base-4.21)
+
+## 0.1.5
+
+  * text-2.0 support
+
+## 0.1.4
+
+  * Fix `fromString` for single character strings.
+    https://github.com/haskell-hvr/text-short/issues/20
+  * Add Template Haskell `Lift ShortText` instance.
+
 ## 0.1.3
 
   * Add `Data ShortText` instance
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/Setup.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-import Distribution.Simple
-main = defaultMain
diff --git a/cbits/memcmp.c b/cbits/memcmp.c
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/cbits/memcmp.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#include <string.h>
-
-int
-hs_text_short_memcmp(const void *s1, const size_t s1ofs, const void *s2, const size_t s2ofs, const size_t n)
-{
-  if (!n) return 0;
-
-  const void *s1_ = s1+s1ofs;
-  const void *s2_ = s2+s2ofs;
-
-  return (s1_ == s2_) ? 0 : memcmp(s1_, s2_, n);
-}
diff --git a/src-ghc708/PrimOps.hs b/src-ghc708/PrimOps.hs
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/src-ghc708/PrimOps.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE MagicHash        #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE UnliftedFFITypes #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE Unsafe           #-}
-
-module PrimOps ( compareByteArrays# ) where
-
-import           Foreign.C.Types  (CInt (..), CSize (..))
-import           GHC.Exts         (Int (I#))
-import           GHC.Exts         (ByteArray#, Int#)
-import           System.IO.Unsafe (unsafeDupablePerformIO)
-
--- | Emulate GHC 8.4's 'GHC.Prim.compareByteArrays#'
-compareByteArrays# :: ByteArray# -> Int# -> ByteArray# -> Int# -> Int# -> Int#
-compareByteArrays# ba1# ofs1# ba2# ofs2# n#
-    = unI (fromIntegral (unsafeDupablePerformIO (c_memcmp ba1# ofs1 ba2# ofs2 n)))
-  where
-    unI (I# i#) = i#
-    ofs1 = fromIntegral (I# ofs1#)
-    ofs2 = fromIntegral (I# ofs2#)
-    n    = fromIntegral (I# n#)
-
-foreign import ccall unsafe "hs_text_short_memcmp"
-   c_memcmp :: ByteArray# -> CSize -> ByteArray# -> CSize -> CSize -> IO CInt
diff --git a/src-test/Tests.hs b/src-test/Tests.hs
--- a/src-test/Tests.hs
+++ b/src-test/Tests.hs
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE CPP               #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedLists   #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell   #-}
+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-}
 
+#ifndef MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL
+#define MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL(x,y,z,w) ((x*100 + y) >= __GLASGOW_HASKELL__)
+#endif
+
 module Main(main) where
 
 import           Data.Binary
@@ -8,11 +15,11 @@
 import           Data.Maybe
 import           Data.Monoid
 import qualified Data.String               as D.S
+import qualified Data.ByteString           as BS
 import qualified Data.Text                 as T
 import qualified Data.Text.Encoding        as T
 import qualified Data.Text.Short           as IUT
 import qualified Data.Text.Short.Partial   as IUT
-import           Test.QuickCheck.Instances ()
 import           Test.Tasty
 import           Test.Tasty.HUnit
 import           Test.Tasty.QuickCheck     as QC
@@ -164,8 +171,11 @@
   , testCase "IsString U+D800" $ "\xFFFD" @?= (IUT.fromString "\xD800")
 --  , testCase "IsString U+D800" $ (IUT.fromString "\xD800") @?= IUT.fromText ("\xD800" :: T.Text)
 
+#if !(MIN_VERSION_bytestring(0,11,0) && MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL(9,0,1,0) && !MIN_VERSION_GLASGOW_HASKELL(9,0,2,0))
+  -- https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/19976
   , testCase "Binary.encode" $ encode ("Hello \8364 & \171581!\NUL" :: IUT.ShortText) @?= "\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\DC2Hello \226\130\172 & \240\169\184\189!\NUL"
   , testCase "Binary.decode" $ decode ("\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\DC2Hello \226\130\172 & \240\169\184\189!\NUL") @?= ("Hello \8364 & \171581!\NUL" :: IUT.ShortText)
+#endif
   , testCase "singleton" $ [ c | c <- [minBound..maxBound], IUT.singleton c /= IUT.fromText (T.singleton c) ] @?= []
 
   , testCase "splitAtEnd" $ IUT.splitAtEnd 1 "€€" @?= ("€","€")
@@ -188,6 +198,27 @@
   , testCase "literal9"  $ [] @?= ("" :: IUT.ShortText)
   , testCase "literal10" $ ['¤','€','$'] @?= ("¤€$" :: IUT.ShortText)
   , testCase "literal12" $ IUT.unpack ['\xD800','\xD7FF','\xDFFF','\xE000'] @?= ['\xFFFD','\xD7FF','\xFFFD','\xE000']
+
+    -- template haskell
+  , testCase "TH.Lift" $ do
+      testLit1 @?= $([| testLit1 |])
+      testLit2 @?= $([| testLit2 |])
+      testLit3 @?= $([| testLit3 |])
+      testLit4 @?= $([| testLit4 |])
+      testLit5 @?= $([| testLit5 |])
+      testLit6 @?= $([| testLit6 |])
+      testLit7 @?= $([| testLit7 |])
+      testLit8 @?= $([| testLit8 |])
+
+  , testCase "TTH.Lift" $ do
+      testLit1 @?= $$([|| testLit1 ||])
+      testLit2 @?= $$([|| testLit2 ||])
+      testLit3 @?= $$([|| testLit3 ||])
+      testLit4 @?= $$([|| testLit4 ||])
+      testLit5 @?= $$([|| testLit5 ||])
+      testLit6 @?= $$([|| testLit6 ||])
+      testLit7 @?= $$([|| testLit7 ||])
+      testLit8 @?= $$([|| testLit8 ||])
  ]
 
 -- isScalar :: Char -> Bool
@@ -229,3 +260,18 @@
 {-# NOINLINE testLit8 #-}
 testLit8 :: IUT.ShortText
 testLit8 = "\x7f"
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- orphans
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-- orphan instances to not depend on quickcheck-instances
+-- which would cause cycles
+
+instance Arbitrary BS.ByteString where
+    arbitrary = BS.pack `fmap` arbitrary
+    shrink xs = BS.pack `fmap` shrink (BS.unpack xs)
+
+instance Arbitrary T.Text where
+    arbitrary = T.pack `fmap` arbitrary
+    shrink xs = T.pack `fmap` shrink (T.unpack xs)
diff --git a/src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs b/src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs
--- a/src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs
+++ b/src/Data/Text/Short/Internal.hs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE MagicHash                  #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes                 #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskellQuotes      #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies               #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE UnboxedTuples              #-}
 {-# LANGUAGE UnliftedFFITypes           #-}
@@ -95,11 +96,18 @@
     , BS.ByteString
     , T.Text
     , module Prelude
+    , module Data.Monoid
 
       -- ** Internals
     , isValidUtf8
     ) where
 
+import           Prelude
+  (Bool(..), Ordering(..), Int, Char, String, Maybe(..), IO, Eq, Ord, Num, Read,
+   Show, ($), ($!), (.), (==), (/=), (+), (*), (-), (>>), (<=), (<), (>), (>=),
+   compare, show, showsPrec, readsPrec, abs, return, fmap, error,
+   undefined, otherwise, fromIntegral, max, min, not, fst, snd, map, seq, fail, maybe)
+
 import           Control.DeepSeq                (NFData)
 import           Control.Monad.ST               (stToIO)
 import           Data.Binary
@@ -117,10 +125,10 @@
 import           Data.Typeable                  (Typeable)
 import qualified Data.List                      as List
 import           Data.Maybe                     (fromMaybe, isNothing)
+import           Data.Monoid                    (Monoid, mempty, mconcat)
 import           Data.Semigroup
 import qualified Data.String                    as S
 import qualified Data.Text                      as T
-import qualified Data.Text.Encoding             as T
 import           Foreign.C
 import           GHC.Base                       (assert, unsafeChr)
 import qualified GHC.CString                    as GHC
@@ -131,16 +139,19 @@
 import qualified GHC.Foreign                    as GHC
 import           GHC.IO.Encoding
 import           GHC.ST
-import           Prelude                        hiding (all, any, break, concat,
-                                                 drop, dropWhile, filter, foldl,
-                                                 foldl1, foldr, foldr1, head,
-                                                 init, last, length, null,
-                                                 replicate, reverse, span,
-                                                 splitAt, tail, take, takeWhile)
 import           System.IO.Unsafe
 import           Text.Printf                    (PrintfArg, formatArg,
                                                  formatString)
 
+import qualified Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax     as TH
+
+#if MIN_VERSION_text(2,0,0)
+import qualified Data.Text.Internal             as TI
+import qualified Data.Text.Array                as TA
+#else
+import qualified Data.Text.Encoding             as T
+#endif
+
 import qualified PrimOps
 
 -- | A compact representation of Unicode strings.
@@ -151,11 +162,12 @@
 --
 -- This type relates to 'T.Text' as 'ShortByteString' relates to 'BS.ByteString' by providing a more compact type. Please consult the documentation of "Data.ByteString.Short" for more information.
 --
--- Currently, a boxed unshared 'T.Text' has a memory footprint of 6 words (i.e. 48 bytes on 64-bit systems) plus 2 or 4 bytes per code-point (due to the internal UTF-16 representation). Each 'T.Text' value which can share its payload with another 'T.Text' requires only 4 words additionally. Unlike 'BS.ByteString', 'T.Text' use unpinned memory.
+-- Currently, a boxed unshared 'T.Text' has a memory footprint of 6 words (i.e. 48 bytes on 64-bit systems) plus 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes per code-point for text-2 (due to the internal UTF-8 representation) or 2 or 4 bytes per  code-point for text-1 (due to the internal UTF-16 representation). Each 'T.Text' value which can share its payload with another 'T.Text' requires only 4 words additionally. Unlike 'BS.ByteString', 'T.Text' use unpinned memory.
 --
 -- In comparison, the footprint of a boxed 'ShortText' is only 4 words (i.e. 32 bytes on 64-bit systems) plus 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes per code-point (due to the internal UTF-8 representation).
--- It can be shown that for realistic data <http://utf8everywhere.org/#asian UTF-16 has a space overhead of 50% over UTF-8>.
 --
+-- It can be shown that for realistic data <http://utf8everywhere.org/#asian UTF-16, which is used by text-1, has a space overhead of 50% over UTF-8>.
+--
 -- __NOTE__: The `Typeable` instance isn't defined for GHC 7.8 (and older) prior to @text-short-0.1.3@
 --
 -- @since 0.1
@@ -221,7 +233,6 @@
   formatArg txt = formatString $ toString txt
 
 -- | The 'Binary' encoding matches the one for 'T.Text'
-#if MIN_VERSION_binary(0,8,1)
 instance Binary ShortText where
     put = put . toShortByteString
     get = do
@@ -229,15 +240,17 @@
         case fromShortByteString sbs of
           Nothing -> fail "Binary.get(ShortText): Invalid UTF-8 stream"
           Just st -> return st
-#else
--- fallback via 'ByteString' instance
-instance Binary ShortText where
-    put = put . toByteString
-    get = do
-        bs <- get
-        case fromByteString bs of
-          Nothing -> fail "Binary.get(ShortText): Invalid UTF-8 stream"
-          Just st -> return st
+
+-- | Since 0.1.3
+instance TH.Lift ShortText where
+    -- TODO: Use DeriveLift with bytestring-0.11.2.0
+    lift t = [| fromString s |]
+      where s = toString t
+
+#if MIN_VERSION_template_haskell(2,17,0)
+    liftTyped = TH.unsafeCodeCoerce . TH.lift
+#elif MIN_VERSION_template_haskell(2,16,0)
+    liftTyped = TH.unsafeTExpCoerce . TH.lift
 #endif
 
 -- | \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) Test whether a 'ShortText' is empty.
@@ -633,12 +646,16 @@
 --
 -- prop> (toText . fromText) t == t
 --
--- This is currently not \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) because currently 'T.Text' uses UTF-16 as its internal representation.
--- In the event that 'T.Text' will change its internal representation to UTF-8 this operation will become \(\mathcal{O}(1)\).
+-- This is \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) with @text-2@.
+-- Previously it wasn't because 'T.Text' used UTF-16 as its internal representation.
 --
 -- @since 0.1
 toText :: ShortText -> T.Text
+#if MIN_VERSION_text(2,0,0)
+toText (ShortText (BSSI.SBS ba)) = TI.Text (TA.ByteArray ba) 0 (I# (GHC.Exts.sizeofByteArray# ba))
+#else
 toText = T.decodeUtf8 . toByteString
+#endif
 
 ----
 
@@ -657,21 +674,37 @@
 --
 -- @since 0.1
 fromString :: String -> ShortText
-fromString []  = mempty
-fromString [c] = singleton c
-fromString s = ShortText . encodeStringShort utf8 . map r $ s
+fromString s = case s of
+  []  -> mempty
+  [c] -> singleton $ r c
+  _   -> ShortText . encodeStringShort utf8 . map r $ s
   where
     r c | isSurr (ord c) = '\xFFFD'
         | otherwise      = c
 
 -- | \(\mathcal{O}(n)\) Construct 'ShortText' from 'T.Text'
 --
--- This is currently not \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) because currently 'T.Text' uses UTF-16 as its internal representation.
--- In the event that 'T.Text' will change its internal representation to UTF-8 this operation will become \(\mathcal{O}(1)\).
+-- This is \(\mathcal{O}(1)\) with @text-2@ when the 'T.Text' is not sliced.
+-- Previously it wasn't because 'T.Text' used UTF-16 as its internal representation.
 --
 -- @since 0.1
 fromText :: T.Text -> ShortText
+#if MIN_VERSION_text(2,0,0)
+fromText (TI.Text (TA.ByteArray ba) off len) =
+    ShortText (BSSI.SBS (case sliceByteArray (TA.ByteArray ba) off len of TA.ByteArray ba' -> ba'))
+
+sliceByteArray :: TA.Array -> Int -> Int -> TA.Array
+sliceByteArray ta@(TA.ByteArray ba) 0 len
+    | len == I# (GHC.Exts.sizeofByteArray# ba)
+    = ta
+sliceByteArray ta off len = TA.run $ do
+    ma <- TA.new len
+    TA.copyI len ma 0 ta off
+    return ma
+
+#else
 fromText = fromByteStringUnsafe . T.encodeUtf8
+#endif
 
 -- | \(\mathcal{O}(n)\) Construct 'ShortText' from UTF-8 encoded 'ShortByteString'
 --
@@ -1271,7 +1304,12 @@
 {-# INLINE writeWord8Array #-}
 writeWord8Array :: MBA s -> B -> Word -> ST s ()
 writeWord8Array (MBA# mba#) (B (I# i#)) (W# w#)
-  = ST $ \s -> case GHC.Exts.writeWord8Array# mba# i# w# s of
+  = ST $ \s ->
+#if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 902
+      case GHC.Exts.writeWord8Array# mba# i# (GHC.Exts.wordToWord8# w#) s of
+#else
+      case GHC.Exts.writeWord8Array# mba# i# w# s of
+#endif
                  s' -> (# s', () #)
 {- not needed yet
 {-# INLINE indexWord8Array #-}
diff --git a/text-short.cabal b/text-short.cabal
--- a/text-short.cabal
+++ b/text-short.cabal
@@ -1,90 +1,100 @@
-cabal-version:       1.18
+cabal-version:      1.18
+name:               text-short
+version:            0.1.6.1
+synopsis:           Memory-efficient representation of Unicode text strings
+license:            BSD3
+license-file:       LICENSE
+author:             Herbert Valerio Riedel
+maintainer:         hvr@gnu.org
+bug-reports:        https://github.com/hvr/text-short/issues
+category:           Data
+build-type:         Simple
+description:
+  This package provides the 'ShortText' type which is suitable for keeping many short strings in memory. This is similiar to how 'ShortByteString' relates to 'ByteString'.
+  .
+  The main difference between 'Text' and 'ShortText' is that 'ShortText' doesn't support zero-copy slicing (thereby saving 2 words), and, compared to text-1.*, that it uses UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 internally. Consequently, the memory footprint of a (boxed) 'ShortText' value is 4 words (2 words when unboxed) plus the length of the UTF-8 encoded payload.
 
-name:                text-short
-version:             0.1.3
-synopsis:            Memory-efficient representation of Unicode text strings
-license:             BSD3
-license-file:        LICENSE
-author:              Herbert Valerio Riedel
-maintainer:          hvr@gnu.org
-bug-reports:         https://github.com/hvr/text-short/issues
-category:            Data
-build-type:          Simple
-description:         This package provides the 'ShortText' type which is suitable for keeping many short strings in memory. This is similiar to how 'ShortByteString' relates to 'ByteString'.
-                     .
-                     The main difference between 'Text' and 'ShortText' is that 'ShortText' uses UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 internally and also doesn't support zero-copy slicing (thereby saving 2 words). Consequently, the memory footprint of a (boxed) 'ShortText' value is 4 words (2 words when unboxed) plus the length of the UTF-8 encoded payload.
+tested-with:
+  GHC ==8.6.5
+   || ==8.8.3
+   || ==8.10.7
+   || ==9.0.2
+   || ==9.2.8
+   || ==9.4.8
+   || ==9.6.6
+   || ==9.8.4
+   || ==9.10.2
+   || ==9.12.2
+   || ==9.14.1
 
-tested-with:         GHC==8.6.5, GHC==8.4.4, GHC==8.2.2, GHC==8.0.2, GHC==7.10.3, GHC==7.8.4
-extra-source-files:  ChangeLog.md
+extra-source-files: ChangeLog.md
 
-Source-Repository head
-    Type:              git
-    Location:          https://github.com/hvr/text-short.git
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/hvr/text-short.git
 
 flag asserts
   description: Enable runtime-checks via @assert@
-  default: False
-  manual: True
+  default:     False
+  manual:      True
 
 library
-  exposed-modules:     Data.Text.Short
-                       Data.Text.Short.Partial
-                       Data.Text.Short.Unsafe
-
-  other-modules:       Data.Text.Short.Internal
-
-  build-depends:       base        >= 4.7    && < 4.13
-                     , bytestring  >= 0.10.4 && < 0.11
-                     , hashable    >= 1.2.6  && < 1.4
-                     , deepseq     >= 1.3    && < 1.5
-                     , text        >= 1.0    && < 1.3
-                     , binary      >= 0.7.1  && < 0.9
-                     , ghc-prim    >= 0.3.1  && < 0.6
-
-  if !impl(ghc >= 8.0)
-     build-depends: semigroups >= 0.18.2 && < 0.20
-
-  -- GHC version specific PrimOps
-  if impl(ghc >= 8.4)
-     hs-source-dirs:   src-ghc804
-  else
-     c-sources:        cbits/memcmp.c
-     hs-source-dirs:   src-ghc708
-  other-modules:       PrimOps
+  exposed-modules:
+    Data.Text.Short
+    Data.Text.Short.Partial
+    Data.Text.Short.Unsafe
 
-  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  other-modules:    Data.Text.Short.Internal
+  build-depends:
+      base              >=4.12     && <4.23
+    , binary            >=0.8.6.0  && <0.9
+    , bytestring        >=0.10.8.2 && <0.13
+    , deepseq           >=1.4.4.0  && <1.6
+    , ghc-prim          >=0.5.3    && <0.14
+    , hashable          >=1.4.4.0  && <1.6
+    , template-haskell  >=2.14.0.0 && <2.25
+    , text              >=1.2.3.1  && <1.3  || >=2.0 && <2.2
 
-  default-language:    Haskell2010
-  other-extensions:    CPP
-                     , GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving
-                     , MagicHash
-                     , UnliftedFFITypes
-                     , Trustworthy
-                     , Unsafe
+  other-modules:    PrimOps
+  hs-source-dirs:   src src-ghc804
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+  other-extensions:
+    CPP
+    GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving
+    MagicHash
+    TemplateHaskellQuotes
+    Trustworthy
+    UnliftedFFITypes
+    Unsafe
 
-  c-sources: cbits/cbits.c
+  c-sources:        cbits/cbits.c
 
   if flag(asserts)
-     ghc-options: -fno-ignore-asserts
+    ghc-options: -fno-ignore-asserts
+
   else
-     cc-options: -DNDEBUG=1
+    cc-options: -DNDEBUG=1
 
-  ghc-options: -Wall
-  cc-options: -O3 -Wall
+  ghc-options:      -Wall
+  cc-options:       -Wall
 
-test-suite tests
-  type:                exitcode-stdio-1.0
-  hs-source-dirs:      src-test
-  main-is:             Tests.hs
+test-suite text-short-tests
+  type:             exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  hs-source-dirs:   src-test
+  main-is:          Tests.hs
 
-  build-depends: base
-               , binary
-               , text
-               , text-short
-                 -- deps which don't inherit constraints from library stanza:
-               , tasty                >= 1.0.0  && < 1.3
-               , tasty-quickcheck     >= 0.10   && < 0.11
-               , tasty-hunit          >= 0.10.0 && < 0.11
-               , quickcheck-instances >= 0.3.14 && < 0.4
+  -- bytestring dependency for cabal_macros.h
+  build-depends:
+      base
+    , binary
+    , bytestring
+    , text
+    , text-short
 
-  default-language:    Haskell2010
+  -- deps which don't inherit constraints from library stanza:
+  build-depends:
+      tasty             >=1.4    && <1.6
+    , tasty-hunit       >=0.10.0 && <0.11
+    , tasty-quickcheck  >=0.10   && <0.12
+
+  default-language: Haskell2010
