diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 408e068..cd42230 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 0.9.7 UNRELEASED
  - Made sysv init executable
  - Add missing documentation key to system/dkimpy-milter.service
+ - Put version directly in setup.py and do not import dkimpy_milter to ease
+   install via pip
 
 0.9.6 2018-03-13
  - Fixed typo in package installation section of README
diff --git a/dkimpy_milter/__init__.py b/dkimpy_milter/__init__.py
index 41921c9..7dd580d 100644
--- a/dkimpy_milter/__init__.py
+++ b/dkimpy_milter/__init__.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from dkimpy_milter.util import read_keyfile
 from dkimpy_milter.util import own_socketfile
 from dkimpy_milter.util import fold
 
-__version__ = "0.9.6"
+__version__ = "0.9.7"
 FWS = re.compile(r'\r?\n[ \t]+')
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 223a25f..b6bd808 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 from setuptools import setup
 import os
-import dkimpy_milter
 
 description = "Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) signing/verifying milter for Postfix/Sendmail."
 
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ except ImportError:  # If PyDNS is not installed, prefer dnspython
 
 setup(
     name='dkimpy-milter',
-    version=dkimpy_milter.__version__,
+    version='0.9.7',
     author='Scott Kitterman',
     author_email='scott@kitterman.com',
     url='https://launchpad.net/dkimpy-milter',