diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6a5021e..1a26fc1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="cvdata",
-    version="0.0.6",
+    version="0.0.7",
     author="James Adams",
     author_email="monocongo@gmail.com",
     description="Tools for creating and manipulating computer vision datasets",
diff --git a/src/cvdata/__init__.py b/src/cvdata/__init__.py
index e69de29..420e209 100644
--- a/src/cvdata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/cvdata/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# version of the cvdata package, should match with setup.py
+__version__ = "0.0.7"