diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 30c9aab..9a5c949 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# REASON FOR FORK
+We needed to bump the Faraday dependency to be compatible with newer Rails packages, namely the google cloud packages.
+
 # hypernova-ruby [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/airbnb/hypernova-ruby.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/airbnb/hypernova-ruby)
 
 > A Ruby client for the Hypernova service
diff --git a/hypernova.gemspec b/hypernova.gemspec
index c2e9e2f..5631e90 100644
--- a/hypernova.gemspec
+++ b/hypernova.gemspec
@@ -46,5 +46,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   # see https://github.com/weppos/publicsuffix-ruby/issues/127
   spec.add_development_dependency "public_suffix", "=1.4.6"
 
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "faraday", "~> 0.8"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "faraday", "~> 1.3"
 end