diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 909d4d2..f86d451 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ venv
 .idea
 dist
 __pycache__
+VERSION.txt
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74282fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+include VERSION.txt
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8136559..9cf56b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     name='open-bus-stride-client',
     version=version,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'tests*']),
+    include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=['requests', 'pytz', 'json-stream==1.3.0'],
     extras_require={
         'cli': extras_cli,