diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 08199d60..fe552b5c 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 recursive-include ovos_utils/res *
+recursive-include ovos_utils/requirements *
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index c34299b4..347ce663 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 mycroft-messagebus-client~=0.9.1,!=0.9.2,!=0.9.3
 inflection~=0.3
 pexpect~=4.8
-requests~=2.25
+requests~=2.26
 json_database~=0.5
 kthread~=0.2
 pyxdg~=0.26