diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6fc1974f..cc85d9a7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ### Enhancements
 
+- Relax Jekyll dependency to allow for version 4.0.
 - Add missing Spanish localized UI text strings. [#2229](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2229)
 - Allow Markdown in author bio. [#2215](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2215)
 
diff --git a/docs/_docs/18-history.md b/docs/_docs/18-history.md
index 9c39c9ae..da1b989a 100644
--- a/docs/_docs/18-history.md
+++ b/docs/_docs/18-history.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ toc: false
 
 ### Enhancements
 
+- Relax Jekyll dependency to allow for version 4.0.
 - Add missing Spanish localized UI text strings. [#2229](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2229)
 - Allow Markdown in author bio. [#2215](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/2215)
 
diff --git a/minimal-mistakes-jekyll.gemspec b/minimal-mistakes-jekyll.gemspec
index 06baabd5..598a1c23 100644
--- a/minimal-mistakes-jekyll.gemspec
+++ b/minimal-mistakes-jekyll.gemspec
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
     f.match(%r{^(assets|_(data|includes|layouts|sass)/|(LICENSE|README|CHANGELOG)((\.(txt|md|markdown)|$)))}i)
   end
 
-  spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll", "~> 3.7"
+  spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll", ">= 3.6", "< 5.0"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-paginate", "~> 1.1"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-sitemap", "~> 1.2"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "jekyll-gist", "~> 1.5"