diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index c3dcca72f0..74cd298fc3 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
   "PREREQ_PM" => {
     "Bio::Annotation::SimpleValue" => 0,
     "Bio::FeatureIO" => 0,
-    "Bio::GFF3::LowLevel::Parser" => "1.7",
+    "Bio::GFF3::LowLevel::Parser" => "1.8",
     "Bio::Index::Fasta" => 0,
     "Bio::OntologyIO" => 0,
     "Bio::Root::Version" => "1.006000",
diff --git a/release-notes.txt b/release-notes.txt
index f1dbd86ba8..650b5c95b0 100644
--- a/release-notes.txt
+++ b/release-notes.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 {{$NEXT}}
 
+## Bug fixes
+
+ * flatfile-to-json.pl dow depends on the latest
+   Bio::GFF3::LowLevel::Parser 1.8, which fixes a bug in which
+   features with no ID, Parent, or Derives_from attributes were not
+   being included in parsed data.  Thanks to Gwendoline Andres for
+   pointing this out.
+
 # Release 1.10.8     2013-10-25 11:13:30 EST5EDT
 
 ## Minor improvements