diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 9891193..ae830fa 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+### 0.5.7 - minor setup.py improvement
+
+Now explicitly setting the `zip_safe` flag in `setup.py` to avoid `ply` being downloaded. From [#5](https://github.com/smarie/python-getversion/pull/5) 
+
 ### 0.5.6 - fixed setup.py classifiers
 
 It was incorrectly refering to this project as related to testing.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1d7bd94..51d1dd9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -162,5 +162,8 @@
     #         'sample=sample:main',
     #     ],
     # },
+
+    # explicitly setting the flag to avoid `ply` being downloaded
+    # see https://github.com/smarie/python-getversion/pull/5
     zip_safe=False,
 )