diff --git a/recipes/htseq/0.6.1.post1/meta.yaml b/recipes/htseq/0.6.1.post1/meta.yaml
index b659d51bf51d7..2e8b94eb9be63 100644
--- a/recipes/htseq/0.6.1.post1/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/htseq/0.6.1.post1/meta.yaml
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@ source:
 
 build:
   preserve_egg_dir: True
-  number: 2
+  number: 3
   skip: True # [not py27]
 
 requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+
   host:
     - python
     - setuptools
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ requirements:
 
   run:
     - python
-    - numpy
+    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy') }}
     - matplotlib
     - pysam
 
diff --git a/recipes/htseq/0.6.1/meta.yaml b/recipes/htseq/0.6.1/meta.yaml
index 92214d99ba9af..d23079d56530e 100644
--- a/recipes/htseq/0.6.1/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/htseq/0.6.1/meta.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ about:
   summary: 'A framework to process and analyze data from high-throughput sequencing (HTS) assays'
 
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 2
   skip: True # [py3k or osx]
 
 package:
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ package:
   version: 0.6.1
 
 requirements:
+  build:
+  - {{ compiler('c') }}
   host:
   - python
   - cython
diff --git a/recipes/htseq/0.7.2/meta.yaml b/recipes/htseq/0.7.2/meta.yaml
index c55069d6520e5..5bf70b398fc3e 100644
--- a/recipes/htseq/0.7.2/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/htseq/0.7.2/meta.yaml
@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ source:
   sha256: b9da6d6a9004e8e05a40ecf08f74f765ec0e0be0e835e82205a117aba2ce375b
 
 build:
-  number: 1
+  number: 2
 
 requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+
   host:
     - python
     - setuptools
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ requirements:
 
   run:
     - python
-    - numpy
+    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy') }}
     - matplotlib
     - pysam >=0.9.0
 
diff --git a/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/build.sh b/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bf07930878d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+$PYTHON setup.py build install
diff --git a/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/meta.yaml b/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..401d1590b63be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/htseq/0.9.1/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package:
+  name: htseq
+  version: "0.9.1"
+
+source:
+  url: https://pypi.python.org/packages/fd/94/b7c8c1dcb7a3c3dcbde66b8d29583df4fa0059d88cc3592f62d15ef539a2/HTSeq-0.9.1.tar.gz
+  md5: fc71e021bf284a68f5ac7533a57641ac
+
+build:
+  number: 2
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+
+  host:
+    - python
+    - setuptools
+    - cython
+    - numpy
+    - pysam >=0.9.0
+    - swig >=3.0.8
+
+  run:
+    - python
+    - {{ pin_compatible('numpy') }}
+    - matplotlib >=1.4
+    - pysam >=0.9.0
+
+test:
+  # Python imports
+  imports:
+    - HTSeq._HTSeq_internal
+    - HTSeq.StepVector
+    - HTSeq._version
+    - HTSeq.scripts.count
+    - HTSeq.scripts.qa
+
+  commands:
+    - htseq-count -h
+    - htseq-qa -h
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/simon-anders/htseq
+  license: GPL-3.0
+  summary: 'HTSeq is a Python library to facilitate processing and analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing (HTS) experiments.'