diff --git a/Distribution/PackageDescription.hs b/Distribution/PackageDescription.hs
index 4dfeb6d64cb0baf6459556f897f2e47a1d92212b..7157b88be66b850c8aeff65735c130775230881f 100644
--- a/Distribution/PackageDescription.hs
+++ b/Distribution/PackageDescription.hs
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ import Distribution.ParseUtils  (runP)
 
 -- |Fix. Figure out a way to get this from .cabal file
 cabalVersion :: Version
-cabalVersion = Version [1,1,4] []
+cabalVersion = Version [1,1,6] []
 
 -- | This data type is the internal representation of the file @pkg.cabal@.
 -- It contains two kinds of information about the package: information