diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 98bd40a..0643529 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 History
 -------
 
-v0.19.0 (2019-XX-XX)
+v0.18.1 (2019-01-17)
 ....................
-* add ``ConstrainedBytes`` and ``conbytes`` types #315 @Gr1N
+* add ``ConstrainedBytes`` and ``conbytes`` types, #315 @Gr1N
+* adding ``MANIFEST.in`` to include license in package ``.tar.gz``, #358 by @samuelcolvin
 
 v0.18.0 (2019-01-13)
 ....................
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 77e9d4d..ac69ec1 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2017, 2018 Samuel Colvin
+Copyright (c) 2017, 2018, 2019 Samuel Colvin and other contributors
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b499f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+include LICENSE
+include README.rst
+include HISTORY.rst
diff --git a/pydantic/version.py b/pydantic/version.py
index 5765669..bd4adf0 100644
--- a/pydantic/version.py
+++ b/pydantic/version.py
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ from distutils.version import StrictVersion
 
 __all__ = ['VERSION']
 
-VERSION = StrictVersion('0.18')
+VERSION = StrictVersion('0.18.1')