diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 025211fd..0d8d5cda 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ MappedArrays
 SIUnits
 Graphics 0.1
 FileIO
-Compat 0.9.1
+Compat 0.18
 StatsBase   # for histrange