diff --git a/git-annex.cabal b/git-annex.cabal
index c501b29beb..97a3a7a34d 100644
--- a/git-annex.cabal
+++ b/git-annex.cabal
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Executable git-annex
    containers, utf8-string, network (>= 2.0), mtl (>= 2),
    bytestring, old-locale, time, HTTP,
    extensible-exceptions, dataenc, SHA, process, json,
-   base (>= 4.5 && < 4.8), monad-control, MonadCatchIO-transformers,
+   base (>= 4.5 && < 4.9), monad-control, MonadCatchIO-transformers,
    IfElse, text, QuickCheck >= 2.1, bloomfilter, edit-distance, process,
    SafeSemaphore, uuid, random, dlist, unix-compat
   -- Need to list these because they're generated from .hsc files.