diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7d3a24e..d9393d0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
 /config.json
+*.egginfo
+build
+dist
+.pytest_cache
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 88826e4..83d8f2a 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ requests~=2.20
 neon_utils[network]~=1.0
 ovos-utils~=0.0.31
 ovos-config~=0.0.7
-neon-mq-connector~=0.6,>=0.6.1a8
+neon-mq-connector~=0.7