diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index c28ca12..fd6b6f9 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # CHANGES
+## 2.0.8
+* added version tag in write_results def to avoids tests failing
 
 ## 2.0.7
-* Signture input can be directory or archive file, modified to handle docstore json input
+* Signture input can be directory or archive file, modified to handle dockstore json input
 * Signature names now automatically constructed based on file names
 ## 2.0.6
 * Added explicit file handler close to avoid empty files in the results archive
diff --git a/pyCRISPRcleanR/staticMethods.py b/pyCRISPRcleanR/staticMethods.py
index 97c3c70..16c2598 100644
--- a/pyCRISPRcleanR/staticMethods.py
+++ b/pyCRISPRcleanR/staticMethods.py
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 from pyCRISPRcleanR.plots import PlotData as PLT
 from . import segmentation
 
-version = pkg_resources.require("pyCRISPRcleanR")[0].version
-
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 MAGECK_CMD = "mageck test --count-table {} --control-id {} --treatment-id {} --output-prefix {} --norm-method {}"
@@ -444,7 +442,7 @@ def write_results(result_cfg, outdir):
         :return:
         """
         global RESULTS_FILE
-        global version
+        version = pkg_resources.require("pyCRISPRcleanR")[0].version
         file_ext = '.tar.bz2'
         generated_files = []
         for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(outdir):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e18a98d..071a1b6 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup
 
 config = {
-    'version': '2.0.7',
+    'version': '2.0.8',
     'name': 'pyCRISPRcleanR',
     'description': 'This is python implementation of CRISPRcleanR package for unsupervised identification and correction of gene independent cell responses to CRISPR-cas9 targeting',
     'author': 'Shriram Bhosle',