diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index ec32c8c35..8ce77c8f0 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ Library
                  blaze-markup >= 0.5.1 && < 0.7,
                  attoparsec >= 0.10 && < 0.12,
                  yaml >= 0.8.8.2 && < 0.9,
-                 scientific >= 0.2 && < 0.3,
+                 scientific >= 0.2 && < 0.4,
                  vector >= 0.10 && < 0.11,
                  hslua >= 0.3 && < 0.4,
                  binary >= 0.5 && < 0.8