diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f88db0e0..bcbd6e37 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Library to support the reading and writing of zip files.
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-flate2 = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
+# FIXME(#170): flate2 1.0.15 has an MSRV of 1.36.0, breaking ours. We'll update when we know if this will be addressed
+flate2 = { version = ">=1.0.0, <=1.0.14", default-features = false, optional = true }
 time = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
 byteorder = "1.3"
 bzip2 = { version = "0.3", optional = true }