diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 09ac3e4ae..95b243a51 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Development
 
 Version 0.8
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Fix: Crash with Cerberus 1.2. Closes #1137.
 - Docs: Add link to the Eve course. It was authored by the project author, and
   it is hosted by TalkPython Training.
 - New: Add suport for mongo's ``$box`` geo query operator. Closes #1122.
diff --git a/eve/validation.py b/eve/validation.py
index 577a81ced..0d5c5016e 100644
--- a/eve/validation.py
+++ b/eve/validation.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def _normalize_default_setter(self, mapping, schema, field):
                                                              field)
 
     def _validate_dependencies(self, dependencies, field, value):
-        """ {'type': ['dict', 'hashable', 'hashables']} """
+        """ {'type': ['dict', 'hashable', 'list']} """
         persisted = self._filter_persisted_fields_not_in_document(dependencies)
         if persisted:
             dcopy = copy.copy(self.document)