diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8b8a3611..8d2f96e5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.1.1
+### Bug Fixes:
+ * fix an error that prevents running webui on torch<2.0 without --disable-safe-unpickle
+
 ## 1.1.0
 ### Features:
  * switch to torch 2.0.0 (except for AMD GPUs)
diff --git a/modules/safe.py b/modules/safe.py
index dadf319c..e6c2f2c0 100644
--- a/modules/safe.py
+++ b/modules/safe.py
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ class RestrictedUnpickler(pickle.Unpickler):
 
     def persistent_load(self, saved_id):
         assert saved_id[0] == 'storage'
-        return TypedStorage(_internal=True)
+
+        try:
+            return TypedStorage(_internal=True)
+        except TypeError:
+            return TypedStorage()  # PyTorch before 2.0 does not have the _internal argument
 
     def find_class(self, module, name):
         if self.extra_handler is not None: