diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 9e74e5b2..2652857b 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 julia 0.5
-Compat 0.9.5
+Compat 0.17.0
diff --git a/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl b/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
index db79d48c..6f803834 100644
--- a/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
+++ b/src/FixedPointNumbers.jl
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ using Compat
 
 # T => BaseType
 # f => Number of Bytes reserved for fractional part
-abstract FixedPoint{T <: Integer, f} <: Real
+@compat abstract type FixedPoint{T <: Integer, f} <: Real end
 
 
 export