diff --git a/pandoc.cabal b/pandoc.cabal
index 14a407b85..8ed4ba23f 100644
--- a/pandoc.cabal
+++ b/pandoc.cabal
@@ -588,6 +588,6 @@ benchmark benchmark-pandoc
                    time, bytestring, containers,
                    base >= 4.2 && < 5,
                    syb >= 0.1 && < 0.8,
-                   criterion >= 1.0 && < 1.2
+                   criterion >= 1.0 && < 1.3
   Ghc-Options:   -rtsopts -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind
   Default-Language: Haskell98