diff --git a/lightkube/core/schema.py b/lightkube/core/schema.py
index 47bda46..9811b17 100644
--- a/lightkube/core/schema.py
+++ b/lightkube/core/schema.py
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@
 
 These dependencies are here because we may decide to replace dataclasses with something else in the future
 """
-
-
+__all__ = ["dataclass", "field", "DictMixin"]
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from .dataclasses_dict import DataclassDictMixIn as DictMixin
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f7837fd..a76e430 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='lightkube',
-    version="0.16.1",
+    version="0.16.2",
     description='Lightweight kubernetes client library',
     long_description=Path("README.md").read_text(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",