diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index b6aa8c2..e37380b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+======================
+ What's new in 1.3.13
+======================
+
+Support build with MySQL 8
+
+Fix decoding tiny/medium/long blobs (#215)
+
+Remove broken row_seek() and row_tell() APIs (#220)
+
+Reduce callproc roundtrip time (#223)
+
+
 ======================
  What's new in 1.3.12
 ======================
diff --git a/MySQLdb/__init__.py b/MySQLdb/__init__.py
index 038309a..a4a9da9 100644
--- a/MySQLdb/__init__.py
+++ b/MySQLdb/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-"""MySQLdb - A DB API v2.0 compatible interface to MySQL.
+"""
+MySQLdb - A DB API v2.0 compatible interface to MySQL.
 
 This package is a wrapper around _mysql, which mostly implements the
 MySQL C API.
@@ -10,10 +11,8 @@ on other items.
 
 For information on how MySQLdb handles type conversion, see the
 MySQLdb.converters module.
-
 """
 
-__revision__ = """$Revision$"""[11:-2]
 from MySQLdb.release import __version__, version_info, __author__
 
 import _mysql
@@ -98,6 +97,3 @@ __all__ = [ 'BINARY', 'Binary', 'Connect', 'Connection', 'DATE',
     'escape_sequence', 'escape_string', 'get_client_info',
     'paramstyle', 'string_literal', 'threadsafety', 'version_info']
 
-
-
-
diff --git a/metadata.cfg b/metadata.cfg
index cf40b26..4dee961 100644
--- a/metadata.cfg
+++ b/metadata.cfg
@@ -1,30 +1,7 @@
 [metadata]
-version: 1.3.12
-version_info: (1,3,12,'final',0)
+version: 1.3.13
+version_info: (1,3,13,'final',0)
 description: Python interface to MySQL
-long_description: 
-        =========================
-        Python interface to MySQL
-        =========================
-        \n
-        mysqlclient is a fork of MySQL-python. It adds Python 3 support
-        and fixed many bugs.
-        \n
-        MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL_ database server for
-        Python. The design goals are:
-        \n
-        - Compliance with Python database API version 2.0 [PEP-0249]_
-        - Thread-safety
-        - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) 
-        \n
-        MySQL-5.5 through 5.7 and Python 2.7, 3.4+ are currently supported.
-        PyPy is supported too.
-        \n
-        MySQLdb is `Free Software`_.
-        \n
-        .. _MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/
-        .. _`Free Software`: http://www.gnu.org/
-        .. [PEP-0249] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/
 author: Andy Dustman
 author_email: farcepest@gmail.com
 maintainer: INADA Naoki
@@ -47,7 +24,6 @@ classifiers:
         Programming Language :: Python :: 2
         Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
         Programming Language :: Python :: 3
-        Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
         Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
         Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
         Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f88a381..4d2e1b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import os
+import io
 import sys
 
 import distutils.errors
 import setuptools
 
-if not hasattr(sys, "hexversion") or sys.hexversion < 0x02060000:
-    raise distutils.errors.DistutilsError("Python 2.6 or newer is required")
-
 if os.name == "posix":
     from setup_posix import get_config
 else:  # assume windows
     from setup_windows import get_config
 
+with io.open('README.md', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    readme = f.read()
+
 metadata, options = get_config()
-metadata['ext_modules'] = [
-    setuptools.Extension(sources=['_mysql.c'], **options)]
-metadata['long_description'] = metadata['long_description'].replace(r'\n', '')
+metadata['ext_modules'] = [setuptools.Extension(sources=['_mysql.c'], **options)]
+metadata['long_description'] = readme
+metadata['long_description_content_type'] = "text/markdown"
 setuptools.setup(**metadata)