diff --git a/pydivert/__init__.py b/pydivert/__init__.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/pydivert/__init__.py
+++ b/pydivert/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from .packet import Packet
 from .windivert import WinDivert
 
 __author__ = 'fabio'
-__version__ = '2.0.7'
+__version__ = '2.0.8'
 
 if _sys.version_info < (3, 4):
     # add socket.inet_pton on Python < 3.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ workdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 with open(os.path.join(workdir, "pydivert", "__init__.py")) as fp:
     __version__ = fp.read().split("__version__ = '", 1)[1].split("'", 1)[0]
 
-with open(os.path.join(workdir, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+with open(os.path.join(workdir, 'README.rst')) as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(
Something goes wrong on PKG-INFO when encoding is set to UTF-8