diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e9c660a4412eff7ccfa2fc3cac242eca89716366..ad479d2d1c53456c91eae20299d62a1033b38d62 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # v1.0.2
 
-* _TBA_
+* got rid of some C compiler warnings
+* module will now use mako to render the files
 
 # v1.0.1
 
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 901b33197d29e68ddd60768cfb46c6fbf0748ec8..1aafccb6ddb8ba349adeafbd0655602a5d7ae8b0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ include LICENSE
 include README.md
 include CONTRIBUTORS.md
 include snakehouse/templates/*.mako
+include requirements.txt
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8bf5286075008453d3f8e9cecef3da9ad42e8fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Cython
+mako
diff --git a/snakehouse/__init__.py b/snakehouse/__init__.py
index 0600218e20cd5d0f3656e5f0ed96c67e878422eb..6e120cb416e9286b22cedba8b2f42e4464e810c3 100644
--- a/snakehouse/__init__.py
+++ b/snakehouse/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from .build import build
 from .multibuild import Multibuild
 
-__version__ = '1.0.2a1'
+__version__ = '1.0.2'