diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 42d686e47..b22e67ff8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# v1.2.5
+* Include data files in wheel
+
 # v1.2.4
 * Add pre-trained multi-fidelity models
 * Add utils for disordered site representation
diff --git a/megnet/__init__.py b/megnet/__init__.py
index f996a714a..adf1efd0d 100644
--- a/megnet/__init__.py
+++ b/megnet/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 """
 MatErials Graph Network (MEGNet) package
 """
-__version__ = "1.2.4"
+__version__ = "1.2.5"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5a789d12c..98dbe0b33 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
     package_data={
         "megnet": ["*.json", "*.md"],
     },
+    include_package_data=True,
     keywords=["materials", "science", "machine", "learning", "deep", "graph", "networks", "neural"],
     classifiers=[
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",