diff --git a/tools/manylinux1/Dockerfile.x64 b/tools/manylinux1/Dockerfile.x64
index 0d59e4c110ff8502acb4dbcda15f855f7652a946..e91216a5b89c585dd8ccade472e21e6524de9eb9 100644
--- a/tools/manylinux1/Dockerfile.x64
+++ b/tools/manylinux1/Dockerfile.x64
@@ -36,17 +36,21 @@ RUN cd /opt && wget -q --no-check-certificate https://github.com/google/protobuf
     tar xzf protobuf-cpp-3.1.0.tar.gz && \
     cd protobuf-3.1.0 && ./configure && make -j4 && make install && cd .. && rm -f protobuf-cpp-3.1.0.tar.gz
 
-RUN wget -O /root/requirements.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/develop/python/requirements.txt
+RUN wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/develop/python/requirements.txt -O /root/requirements.txt
 
 RUN LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-2.7.11-ucs4/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/python/cp27-cp27mu/bin/pip install -r /root/requirements.txt && \
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-2.7.11-ucs2/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/python/cp27-cp27m/bin/pip install -r /root/requirements.txt && \
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/bin/pip3 install -r /root/requirements.txt && \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.6.0/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.6.0/bin/pip3 install -r /root/requirements.txt && \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.7.0/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.7.0/bin/pip3 install -r /root/requirements.txt && \
     go get github.com/Masterminds/glide && \
     rm -rf /root/requirements.txt
 
 RUN LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-2.7.11-ucs4/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/python/cp27-cp27mu/bin/pip install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python && \
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-2.7.11-ucs2/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/python/cp27-cp27m/bin/pip install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python && \
-    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/bin/pip3 install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.5.1/bin/pip3 install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python && \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.6.0/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.6.0/bin/pip3 install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python && \
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/_internal/cpython-3.7.0/lib/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} /opt/_internal/cpython-3.7.0/bin/pip3 install pre-commit 'ipython==5.3.0' opencv-python
 
 RUN wget -O /opt/swig-2.0.12.tar.gz https://cytranet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/swig/swig/swig-2.0.12/swig-2.0.12.tar.gz && \
     cd /opt && tar xzf swig-2.0.12.tar.gz && cd /opt/swig-2.0.12 && ./configure && make && make install && cd /opt && rm swig-2.0.12.tar.gz
diff --git a/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build.sh b/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build.sh
index eb4b477dcb538f7ba17cfc54057a97c9669a6916..6c551eceb4543bf33229b9e5b5124522f3ee134c 100644
--- a/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build.sh
+++ b/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build.sh
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ set -ex
 # remove others to expedite build and reduce docker image size. The original
 # manylinux docker image project builds many python versions.
 # NOTE We added back 3.5.1, since auditwheel requires python 3.3+
-CPYTHON_VERSIONS="2.7.11 3.5.1"
+CPYTHON_VERSIONS="3.7.0 3.6.0 3.5.1 2.7.11"
 
 # openssl version to build, with expected sha256 hash of .tar.gz
 # archive
-OPENSSL_ROOT=openssl-1.0.2l
-OPENSSL_HASH=ce07195b659e75f4e1db43552860070061f156a98bb37b672b101ba6e3ddf30c
+OPENSSL_ROOT=openssl-1.1.0i
+OPENSSL_HASH=ebbfc844a8c8cc0ea5dc10b86c9ce97f401837f3fa08c17b2cdadc118253cf99
 EPEL_RPM_HASH=e5ed9ecf22d0c4279e92075a64c757ad2b38049bcf5c16c4f2b75d5f6860dc0d
 DEVTOOLS_HASH=a8ebeb4bed624700f727179e6ef771dafe47651131a00a78b342251415646acc
 PATCHELF_HASH=d9afdff4baeacfbc64861454f368b7f2c15c44d245293f7587bbf726bfe722fb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ AUTOCONF_HASH=954bd69b391edc12d6a4a51a2dd1476543da5c6bbf05a95b59dc0dd6fd4c2969
 
 # Dependencies for compiling Python that we want to remove from
 # the final image after compiling Python
-PYTHON_COMPILE_DEPS="zlib-devel bzip2-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel libpcap-devel xz-devel"
+PYTHON_COMPILE_DEPS="zlib-devel bzip2-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel gdbm-devel db4-devel libpcap-devel xz-devel libffi-devel"
 
 # Libraries that are allowed as part of the manylinux1 profile
 MANYLINUX1_DEPS="glibc-devel libstdc++-devel glib2-devel libX11-devel libXext-devel libXrender-devel  mesa-libGL-devel libICE-devel libSM-devel ncurses-devel freetype-devel libpng-devel"
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ yum -y install bzip2 make git patch unzip bison yasm diffutils \
 
 wget -q https://cmake.org/files/v3.5/cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz && tar xzf cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz && \
 cd cmake-3.5.2 && ./bootstrap && \
-make -j4 && make install && cd .. && rm cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
+make -j8 && make install && cd .. && rm cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
 
 
 # Install newest autoconf
@@ -77,11 +77,13 @@ mkdir -p /opt/python
 build_cpythons $CPYTHON_VERSIONS
 
 PY35_BIN=/opt/python/cp35-cp35m/bin
+PY36_BIN=/opt/python/cp36-cp36m/bin
+PY37_BIN=/opt/python/cp37-cp37m/bin
 # NOTE Since our custom manylinux image builds pythons with shared
 # libpython, we need to add libpython's dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running
 # python.
 ORIGINAL_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
-LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ORIGINAL_LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$(dirname ${PY35_BIN})/lib"
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ORIGINAL_LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$(dirname ${PY35_BIN})/lib:$(dirname ${PY36_BIN})/lib:$(dirname ${PY37_BIN})/lib"
 
 # Our openssl doesn't know how to find the system CA trust store
 #   (https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/53)
@@ -119,9 +121,8 @@ ln -s $PY35_BIN/auditwheel /usr/local/bin/auditwheel
 # final image
 yum -y erase wireless-tools gtk2 libX11 hicolor-icon-theme \
     avahi freetype bitstream-vera-fonts \
-    ${PYTHON_COMPILE_DEPS}  > /dev/null 2>&1
-yum -y install ${MANYLINUX1_DEPS}
-yum -y clean all > /dev/null 2>&1
+    ${PYTHON_COMPILE_DEPS}  > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
+yum -y install ${MANYLINUX1_DEPS} && yum -y clean all > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
 yum list installed
 # we don't need libpython*.a, and they're many megabytes
 find /opt/_internal -name '*.a' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
diff --git a/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build_utils.sh b/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build_utils.sh
index 10422ae3bd00f4e0dd059af0384f8cc17e4b7855..d97745ad2dd80e9855f9d8b643cf1e9e836b467c 100755
--- a/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build_utils.sh
+++ b/tools/manylinux1/build_scripts/build_utils.sh
@@ -52,9 +52,17 @@ function do_cpython_build {
 
     # NOTE --enable-shared for generating libpython shared library needed for
     # linking of some of the nupic.core test executables.
-    CFLAGS="-Wformat" ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --enable-shared $unicode_flags > /dev/null
-    make -j2 > /dev/null
-    make install > /dev/null
+    if [ $(lex_pyver $py_ver) -ge $(lex_pyver 3.7) ]; then
+        # NOTE python 3.7 should be installed via make altinstall rather than
+        # make install, and we should specify the location of ssl
+        CFLAGS="-Wformat" ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-shared $unicode_flags > /dev/null
+        make -j8 > /dev/null
+        make altinstall > /dev/null
+    else
+        CFLAGS="-Wformat" ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --enable-shared $unicode_flags > /dev/null
+        make -j8 > /dev/null
+        make install > /dev/null
+    fi
     popd
     echo "ZZZ looking for libpython"
     find / -name 'libpython*.so*'
@@ -64,6 +72,9 @@ function do_cpython_build {
     if [ -e ${prefix}/bin/python3 ]; then
         ln -s python3 ${prefix}/bin/python
     fi
+    if [ -e ${prefix}/bin/python3.7 ]; then
+        ln -s python3.7 ${prefix}/bin/python
+    fi
     # NOTE Make libpython shared library visible to python calls below
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${prefix}/lib" ${prefix}/bin/python get-pip.py
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${prefix}/lib" ${prefix}/bin/pip install wheel