diff --git a/contrib/pyln-proto/Makefile b/contrib/pyln-proto/Makefile
index 81edb3985..65cdf74e6 100644
--- a/contrib/pyln-proto/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/pyln-proto/Makefile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ $(SDIST_FILE):
 	python3 setup.py sdist
 
 $(BDIST_FILE):
-	python3 setup.py bdist
+	python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
 
 test-release: check $(ARTEFACTS)
 	python3 -m twine upload --repository testpypi --skip-existing $(ARTEFACTS)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ test-release: check $(ARTEFACTS)
 	# Create a test virtualenv, install from the testpypi and run the
 	# tests against it (make sure not to use any virtualenv that may have
 	# pyln-proto already installed).
-	virtualenv --no-site-packages testpypi --python=/usr/bin/python3 --download --always-copy --clear
+	virtualenv testpypi --python=/usr/bin/python3 --download --always-copy --clear
 	# Install the requirements from the prod repo, they are not being kept up to date on the test repo
 	testpypi/bin/python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt pytest flaky pytest-timeout
 	testpypi/bin/python3 -m pip install -I --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ --no-deps pyln-proto
diff --git a/contrib/pyln-proto/setup.py b/contrib/pyln-proto/setup.py
index a18f63224..1e1ea5364 100644
--- a/contrib/pyln-proto/setup.py
+++ b/contrib/pyln-proto/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ with io.open('requirements.txt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
     requirements = [r for r in f.read().split('\n') if len(r)]
 
 setup(name='pyln-proto',
-      version='0.0.2',
+      version='0.8.2',
       description='Pure python implementation of the Lightning Network protocol',
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',