diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 0939c3eb..6e4cf451 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Contact [Peter Giacomo Lombardo](https://github.com/pglombardo) to be added._
 2. `git checkout master && git pull --rebase && pip install -U twine`
 3. Bump the package version in `instana/version.py`. `git` commit & push the version change to the master branch
 4. Create a [draft Release on Github](https://github.com/instana/python-sensor/releases)
-5. `python setup.py sdist` to create the `instana-<version>.tar.gz` file in `./dist/` 
+5. `python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel` to create the packages file in `./dist/` 
 6. Upload the package to Pypi with twine: `twine upload dist/instana-<version>*`
 7. Validate the new release on https://pypi.org/project/instana/
 8. Update Python documentation with latest changes: https://docs.instana.io/ecosystem/python/
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4565aa5f..615632fe 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ def check_setuptools():
       author='Instana Inc.',
       author_email='peter.lombardo@instana.com',
       description='🐍 Python Distributed Tracing & Metrics Sensor for Instana',
+      options={"bdist_wheel": {"universal": True}},
       packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', 'examples']),
       long_description=long_description,
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',