diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b3ef6ff..88a6114 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
-import stream as st
 
 if sys.version_info.major != 3:
     raise RuntimeError('STREAM requires Python 3')
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ if sys.version_info.major != 3:
 # https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/tree/master/recipes/stream
 
 setup(name='stream',
-      version=st.__version__,
+      version='1.1',
       description=('Single-cell Trajectories Reconstruction,'
                    ' Exploration And Mapping of single-cell data'),
       long_description=Path('README.md').read_text('utf-8'),
