diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3baf2df..86b755c2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 ### Bug Fixes
 
 * Fixed, simplified, and sped up the sparkmagic Docker images for local development and testing
+* Adds support for `ipython>=8`
 
 ## 0.19.2
 
diff --git a/hdijupyterutils/hdijupyterutils/ipythondisplay.py b/hdijupyterutils/hdijupyterutils/ipythondisplay.py
index 9f098ea5..f19862e8 100644
--- a/hdijupyterutils/hdijupyterutils/ipythondisplay.py
+++ b/hdijupyterutils/hdijupyterutils/ipythondisplay.py
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ def stdout_flush(self):
         sys.stdout.flush()
 
     def write(self, msg):
-        self._ipython_shell.write(msg)
+        sys.stdout.write(msg)
         self.stdout_flush()
 
     def writeln(self, msg):
         self.write("{}\n".format(msg))
 
     def send_error(self, error):
-        self._ipython_shell.write_err("{}\n".format(error))
+        sys.stderr.write("{}\n".format(error))
         self.stderr_flush()
diff --git a/hdijupyterutils/setup.py b/hdijupyterutils/setup.py
index d2c93d05..51d1b30d 100644
--- a/hdijupyterutils/setup.py
+++ b/hdijupyterutils/setup.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def version(path):
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
     ],
     install_requires=[
-        "ipython>=4.0.2,<8",
+        "ipython>=5",
         "nose",
         "mock",
         "ipywidgets>5.0.0",
diff --git a/sparkmagic/setup.py b/sparkmagic/setup.py
index 872b81da..cef28b86 100644
--- a/sparkmagic/setup.py
+++ b/sparkmagic/setup.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def version(path):
     install_requires=[
         "hdijupyterutils>=0.6",
         "autovizwidget>=0.6",
-        "ipython>=4.0.2",
+        "ipython>=5",
         "nose",
         "mock",
         "pandas>=0.17.1",