diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be4a825561e7c94813eaf2b9db2cab18f9ba7cb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+recursive-include inventory_provider/static *
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index b7777a7190fa3f1b2b9f89c01a1109fa24aced4f..a779a20836093f01bc0a8752a29a74387b38222e 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@
      increased unit test coverage to 78%
 0.6: added a static demo of juniper stuff
      added some route docs to README
-0.7: added static/* to release
\ No newline at end of file
+0.7/0.8: added static/* to release
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b566817b8d8fbd4e67f22aa4ab9cc282d3963d2a..2901090c1ab5bbc3b45f534eea2323416f72dc95 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='inventory-provider',
-    version="0.7",
+    version="0.8",
     author='GEANT',
     author_email='swd@geant.org',
     description='Dashboard inventory provider',
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@ setup(
         'flask',
         'redis',
         'celery'
-    ]
+    ],
+    include_package_data=True,
 )