diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
deleted file mode 100644
index f5459a443..000000000
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Include tests (but avoid including *.pyc, etc.)
-prune test
-recursive-include test/rsrc *
-recursive-exclude test/rsrc *.pyc
-recursive-exclude test/rsrc *.pyo
-include test/*.py
-
-# Include relevant text files.
-include LICENSE README.rst
-# And generated manpages.
-include man/beet.1
-include man/beetsconfig.5
-
-# Include the Sphinx documentation.
-recursive-include docs *.rst *.py Makefile *.png
-prune docs/_build
-
-# Resources for web plugin.
-recursive-include beetsplug/web/templates *
-recursive-include beetsplug/web/static *
-
-# And for the lastgenre plugin.
-include beetsplug/lastgenre/genres.txt
-include beetsplug/lastgenre/genres-tree.yaml
-
-# Exclude junk.
-global-exclude .DS_Store
-
-# Include default config
-include beets/config_default.yaml
-
-# Shell completion template
-include beets/ui/completion_base.sh
-
-# Include extra bits
-recursive-include extra *
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 7bedaa457..e3c41b24d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,18 @@ Unreleased
 ----------
 
 New features:
+
 Bug fixes:
 
 * :doc:`plugins/lyrics`: LRCLib will fallback to plain lyrics if synced lyrics
   are not found and `synced` flag is set to `yes`.
+* Synchronise files included in the source distribution with what we used to
+  have before the introduction of Poetry.
+  :bug:`5531`
+  :bug:`5526`
 
 For packagers:
+
 Other changes:
 
 2.2.0 (December 02, 2024)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cd4b8f881..5b5559d58 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,14 @@ packages = [
     { include = "beets" },
     { include = "beetsplug" },
 ]
-include = ["test", "man/**/*"] # extra files to include in the sdist
+include = [ # extra files to include in the sdist
+    "docs",
+    "extra",
+    "man/**/*",
+    "test/*.py",
+    "test/rsrc/**/*",
+]
+exclude = ["docs/_build", "docs/modd.conf", "docs/**/*.css"]
 
 [tool.poetry.urls]
 Changelog = "https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/docs/changelog.rst"