diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75da6b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include rhapsody/VERSION
+include rhapsody/data.tar.gz
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/rhapsody/VERSION b/rhapsody/VERSION
index b0bb878..85b7c69 100644
--- a/rhapsody/VERSION
+++ b/rhapsody/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.5
+0.9.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6079ec2..32a878c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     name='prody-rhapsody',
     version=version,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'tests']),
-    python_requires='>=3.5, <4',
+    python_requires='>=3.6, <4',
     install_requires=[
         'requests', 'tqdm',
         'numpy',  'scikit-learn', 'matplotlib',