diff --git a/yesod-bin/yesod-bin.cabal b/yesod-bin/yesod-bin.cabal
index 5b367d7f..b6d836eb 100644
--- a/yesod-bin/yesod-bin.cabal
+++ b/yesod-bin/yesod-bin.cabal
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ executable             yesod
                      , system-fileio      >= 0.3          && < 0.4
                      , unordered-containers
                      , yaml               >= 0.8          && < 0.9
-                     , optparse-applicative >= 0.5
+                     , optparse-applicative >= 0.5        && <= 0.9.1.1
                      , fsnotify           >= 0.0          && < 0.2
                      , split              >= 0.2          && < 0.3
                      , file-embed