diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e3a0b9e..0a27813 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ dist/
 *.swp
 *.swo
 .tox/
+.eggs/
+release.sh
diff --git a/pyres/__init__.py b/pyres/__init__.py
index 011cd88..2a8045b 100644
--- a/pyres/__init__.py
+++ b/pyres/__init__.py
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ def enqueue_at_from_string(self, datetime, klass_as_string, queue, *args, **kwar
     def delayed_push(self, datetime, item):
         key = int(time.mktime(datetime.timetuple()))
         self.redis.rpush('resque:delayed:%s' % key, ResQ.encode(item))
-        self.redis.zadd('resque:delayed_queue_schedule', key, key)
+        self.redis.zadd('resque:delayed_queue_schedule', {key: key})
 
     def delayed_queue_peek(self, start, count):
         return [int(item) for item in self.redis.zrange(
@@ -391,4 +391,3 @@ def decr(self, ammount=1):
 
     def clear(self):
         self.resq.redis.delete(self.key)
-
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 96046b5..657f348 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 simplejson>3.0
-redis>2.4.12
+redis>3.2.0
 setproctitle>1.0
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e0597ed..ed5d541 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
         result = pytest.main(self.test_args)
         sys.exit(result)
 
-version='1.5'
+version='1.6.sm'
 setup(
     name='pyres',
     version=version,