diff --git a/yesod-persistent/yesod-persistent.cabal b/yesod-persistent/yesod-persistent.cabal
index 37640d9b..fb50543d 100644
--- a/yesod-persistent/yesod-persistent.cabal
+++ b/yesod-persistent/yesod-persistent.cabal
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+cabal-version:   >= 1.10
 name:            yesod-persistent
 version:         1.6.0.5
 license:         MIT
@@ -7,13 +8,13 @@ maintainer:      Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>
 synopsis:        Some helpers for using Persistent from Yesod.
 category:        Web, Yesod, Database
 stability:       Stable
-cabal-version:   >= 1.8
 build-type:      Simple
 homepage:        http://www.yesodweb.com/
 description:     API docs and the README are available at <http://www.stackage.org/package/yesod-persistent>
 extra-source-files: README.md ChangeLog.md
 
 library
+    default-language: Haskell2010
     build-depends:   base                      >= 4.10     && < 5
                    , yesod-core                >= 1.6      && < 1.7
                    , persistent                >= 2.8      && < 2.12
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ library
     ghc-options:     -Wall
 
 test-suite test
+    default-language: Haskell2010
     type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
     main-is: Spec.hs
     hs-source-dirs: test