diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Wai Routes (wai-routes-0.5.0)
+Wai Routes (wai-routes-0.5.1)
 ==============================
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ajnsit/wai-routes.png)](https://travis-ci.org/ajnsit/wai-routes)
@@ -83,4 +83,5 @@
 * 0.4.0 : Wai 2 compatibility. Replaced 'liftResourceT' with 'lift'
 * 0.4.1 : showRoute now returns "/" instead of ""
 * 0.5.0 : Added raw,text,html,json helpers. Update to wai-2.1.
+* 0.5.1 : Bumped dependency upper bounds to allow text 1.*
 
diff --git a/wai-routes.cabal b/wai-routes.cabal
--- a/wai-routes.cabal
+++ b/wai-routes.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name          : wai-routes
-version       : 0.5.0
+version       : 0.5.1
 cabal-version : >=1.10
 build-type    : Simple
 license       : MIT
@@ -63,13 +63,13 @@
 
 source-repository this
     type     : git
-    location : http://github.com/ajnsit/wai-routes/tree/v0.5.0
-    tag      : v0.5.0
+    location : http://github.com/ajnsit/wai-routes/tree/v0.5.1
+    tag      : v0.5.1
 
 library
     build-depends: base             >= 4.6.0.1  && < 4.7
                  , wai              >= 2.0.0    && < 2.2
-                 , text             >= 0.11.3.1 && < 0.12
+                 , text             >= 0.11.3.1 && < 1.2
                  , bytestring       >= 0.10.0.2 && < 0.11
                  , http-types       >= 0.8.3    && < 0.9
                  , blaze-builder    >= 0.3.3.2  && < 0.4