diff --git a/xdot.cabal b/xdot.cabal
--- a/xdot.cabal
+++ b/xdot.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:               xdot
-version:            0.2.4.1
+version:            0.2.4.2
 license:            BSD3
 license-file:       LICENSE
 category:           Graphs, Graphics
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
                  cairo == 0.12.*,
                  gtk == 0.12.*,
                  graphviz == 2999.16.*,
-                 text == 0.11.*,
+                 text >= 0.11 && < 1.1,
                  polyparse >= 1.8 && < 1.10
   Hs-source-dirs: src/
   Ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind