More permissive version for typed-ast

Closes #1237

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5c617318..1be58fb3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's New in astroid 2.8.5?
 ============================
 Release date: TBA
 
+* Use more permissive versions for the ``typed-ast`` dependencie (<2.0 instead of <1.5)
+
+  Closes #1237
+
 * Fix crash on inference of ``__len__``.
 
   Closes PyCQA/pylint#5244
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ce1a3692..7482c74b 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ install_requires =
     lazy_object_proxy>=1.4.0
     wrapt>=1.11,<1.14
     setuptools>=20.0
-    typed-ast>=1.4.0,<1.5;implementation_name=="cpython" and python_version<"3.8"
+    typed-ast>=1.4.0,<2.0;implementation_name=="cpython" and python_version<"3.8"
     typing-extensions>=3.10;python_version<"3.10"
 python_requires = ~=3.6