diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 75e06db..2fcd1c0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@
 
 > NOTE: pywa follows the [semver](https://semver.org/) versioning standard.
 
-### 2.5.0 (2025-01-02) **Latest**
+### 2.5.1 (2025-01-02) **Latest**
+
+- [project] hot fix to include missing files in the package
+
+### 2.5.0 (2025-01-02)
 
 - [handlers] adding `on_init`, `on_data_exchange` and `on_back` decorators for flow request callback wrapper
 - [flows] `FlowRequest.respond` defaults to request flow token
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9b22ae5..f330460 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ readme = {file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown"}
 dependencies = {file = "requirements.txt"}
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
-include = ["pywa", "pywa_async"]
+include = ["pywa*"]
 
 [project]
 name = "pywa"
diff --git a/pywa/__init__.py b/pywa/__init__.py
index a951aaf..9a61b79 100644
--- a/pywa/__init__.py
+++ b/pywa/__init__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@
 from pywa.client import WhatsApp
 from pywa.utils import Version
 
-__version__ = "2.5.0"
+__version__ = "2.5.1"
 __author__ = "David Lev"
 __license__ = "MIT"