diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 `wai-middleware-delegate` uses [PVP Versioning][1].
 
+## 0.1.3.1 -- 2022-08-09
+
+* Relax the version bounds so that pre 2.0 versions of text are still supported
+
 ## 0.1.3.0 -- 2022-08-09
 
 * Bump a dependency - switch to text-2.0
diff --git a/wai-middleware-delegate.cabal b/wai-middleware-delegate.cabal
--- a/wai-middleware-delegate.cabal
+++ b/wai-middleware-delegate.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      3.0
 name:               wai-middleware-delegate
-version:            0.1.3.0
+version:            0.1.3.1
 synopsis:           WAI middleware that delegates handling of requests.
 description:
   [WAI](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai) middleware that intercepts requests
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     , http-conduit       ^>=2.3.2
     , http-types         >=0.12.1   && <0.13.0
     , streaming-commons  >=0.2.1.0  && <0.3.0.0
-    , text               ^>=2.0
+    , text               >=1.2.3 && <2.2
     , wai                ^>=3.2
     , wai-conduit        ^>=3.0.0.4