diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36dabd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The ditaa Sphinx extension is written by Arthur Gautier.
+
+Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are:
+
+* Antti Kaihola -- Sphinx 1.7 compatibility bug fix
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
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+Release 0.3 (in development)
+============================
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
+* #14: import ``Directive`` directly from ``docutils.parsers.rst``
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 012bc13..7a9460f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='sphinx-ditaa',
-    version='0.2',
+    version='0.3.dev',
     url='https://github.com/baloo/sphinx-ditaa',
     license='BSD License',
     author='Arthur Gautier',
diff --git a/sphinxcontrib/ditaa.py b/sphinxcontrib/ditaa.py
index 1ec9bde..7dfaaf8 100644
--- a/sphinxcontrib/ditaa.py
+++ b/sphinxcontrib/ditaa.py
@@ -26,11 +26,10 @@
     from sha import sha
 
 from docutils import nodes
-from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
+from docutils.parsers.rst import Directive, directives
 
 from sphinx.errors import SphinxError
 from sphinx.util.osutil import ensuredir, ENOENT, EPIPE
-from sphinx.util.compat import Directive
 
 import sys