diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 9a1624c..a6caeda 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+0.1.10 (2018-03-28)
++++++++++++++++++++
+- Allow manual set of libiperf library path and name using lib_name kwarg on Iperf3 Class
+
 0.1.9 (2018-02-22)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 - Use find_library to load libiperf (Thanks to @Austinpayne). This should allow iperf3 lib to run on Mac OS X.
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index d9b0550..746d767 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.1.9'
+version = '0.1.10'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.1.9'
+release = '0.1.10'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/iperf3/iperf3.py b/iperf3/iperf3.py
index 518b368..7aceed1 100755
--- a/iperf3/iperf3.py
+++ b/iperf3/iperf3.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class provides common settings for the :class:`Client` and :class:`Server`
     from Queue import Queue  # Python2 compatibility
 
 
-__version__ = '0.1.9'
+__version__ = '0.1.10'
 
 
 MAX_UDP_BULKSIZE = (65535 - 8 - 20)
@@ -88,15 +88,19 @@ class IPerf3(object):
     """
     def __init__(self,
                  role,
-                 verbose=True):
+                 verbose=True,
+                 lib_name=None):
         """Initialise the iperf shared library
 
         :param role: 'c' = client; 's' = server
         :param verbose: enable verbose output
+        :param lib_name: optional name and path for libiperf.so.0 library
         """
-        lib_name = util.find_library('libiperf')
         if lib_name is None:
-            lib_name = 'libiperf.so.0'
+            lib_name = util.find_library('libiperf')
+            if lib_name is None:
+                # If we still couldn't find it lets try the manual approach
+                lib_name = 'libiperf.so.0'
 
         try:
             self.lib = cdll.LoadLibrary(lib_name)
diff --git a/tests/test_iperf3.py b/tests/test_iperf3.py
index 2bd3c89..5c4ff65 100644
--- a/tests/test_iperf3.py
+++ b/tests/test_iperf3.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ def test_init_server(self):
         server = iperf3.Server()
         assert server._test
 
+    def test_lib_name(self):
+        client = iperf3.Client(lib_name='libiperf.so.0')
+        assert client._test
+
     def test_run_not_implemented(self):
         with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError):
             client = iperf3.IPerf3(role='c')