diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a717b40a..e203e336 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ or test the installed version (requires installing dev dependencies):
     pip install -e '.[dev]'        # if you installed from a local clone
     python run_tests.py dev
 
+recently, we also made the project compatible with Pytest, so this will run the tests too:
+
+    pytest
+
 And you can download our [open samples on GitHub](https://github.com/ReadAlongs/OpenSamples)
 to run your first alignments.
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1237f21a..c5fd7f77 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ dev = [
     "httpx>=0.24.1",
     "pep440>=0.1.2",
     "pre-commit>=2.6.0",
+    "pytest",
 ]
 
 api = [
diff --git a/readalongs/_version.py b/readalongs/_version.py
index 2cee92fd..b912b6ed 100644
--- a/readalongs/_version.py
+++ b/readalongs/_version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-VERSION = "1.2.1"
+VERSION = "1.2.2"
 
 READALONG_FILE_FORMAT_VERSION = "1.2"