diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index e609f401..69072b2e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Changelog
 =========
 
 
+0.5.5 (2014-02-06)
+-------------------
+
+* fix setup with requirement.txt file
+
+
 0.5.4 (2014-02-06)
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 49541122..e0c394e9 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ global-exclude *.pyc
 
 include README.rst
 include MIT-LICENSE.txt
+include requirements.txt
 
 recursive-include admin_tools_stats *
 recursive-include docs *
diff --git a/admin_tools_stats/__init__.py b/admin_tools_stats/__init__.py
index bf398efb..fcbbbd71 100644
--- a/admin_tools_stats/__init__.py
+++ b/admin_tools_stats/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Arezqui Belaid <info@star2billing.com>
 #
 
-VERSION = (0, 5, 4, "final", 0)  # edit also docs/source/conf.py
+VERSION = (0, 5, 5, "final", 0)  # edit also docs/source/conf.py
 
 
 def get_version():
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cbe03259..cbfd1a38 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
 import admin_tools_stats
 
 
-def read(fname):
-    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
-
-README = read('README.rst')
+def read(*parts):
+    return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *parts)).read()
 
 
 def parse_requirements(file_name):