diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
index fcb3832..1e6f95f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -5,13 +5,12 @@ name: Python package
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ "main" ]
+    branches: ["main"]
   pull_request:
-    branches: [ "main" ]
+    branches: ["main"]
 
 jobs:
   build:
-
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -19,30 +18,30 @@ jobs:
         python-version: ["3.10"]
 
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
-    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
-      with:
-        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-    - name: Install dependencies
-      run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-        python -m pip install flake8 pytest
-        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
-        pip install .
-    - name: Lint with flake8
-      run: |
-        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
-        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
-    - name: Test with pytest
-      env:
-        USERNAME: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
-        APIKEY: ${{ secrets.APIKEY }}
-        URL: ${{ secrets.URL }}
-        INSTANCE_ID: ${{ secrets.INSTANCE_ID }}
-        VERSION: ${{ secrets.VERSION }}
-        DEPLOYMENT_SPACE_NAME: ${{ secrets.DEPLOYMENT_SPACE_NAME }}
-      run: |
-        pytest
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install flake8 pytest
+          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+          pip install .
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 . --count --ignore=F821 --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        env:
+          USERNAME: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
+          APIKEY: ${{ secrets.APIKEY }}
+          URL: ${{ secrets.URL }}
+          INSTANCE_ID: ${{ secrets.INSTANCE_ID }}
+          VERSION: ${{ secrets.VERSION }}
+          DEPLOYMENT_SPACE_NAME: ${{ secrets.DEPLOYMENT_SPACE_NAME }}
+        run: |
+          pytest
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6aa9340..773a139 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -133,5 +133,4 @@ mlruns/
 
 # playground file
 playground.py
-_version.py
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/mlflow_watsonml/_version.py b/mlflow_watsonml/_version.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fee46bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlflow_watsonml/_version.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+__version__ = "0.11.1"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 56d749f..ed2b8d8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ibm_watson_machine_learning~=1.0.327
-mlflow~=2.8.0
+ibm_watson_machine_learning==1.0.327
+mlflow>=2.6.0
 python-dotenv~=1.0.0
 boto3>=1.24.59
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 95e5378..7d0fd03 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@
 with open("requirements.txt", "r") as fh:
     install_requires = fh.readlines()
 
+exec(open("mlflow_watsonml/_version.py").read())
+
 setup(
     name="mlflow-watsonml",
+    version=__version__,  # type: ignore
     description="WatsonML MLflow deployment plugin",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
@@ -24,6 +27,6 @@
     },
     entry_points={"mlflow.deployments": "watsonml=mlflow_watsonml.deploy"},
     python_requires=">=3.9",
-    use_scm_version=True,
-    setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
+    # use_scm_version=True,
+    # setup_requires=["setuptools_scm"],
 )