diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9173153
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include *.rst
+include LICENSE
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5d63cef..2047213 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ A 2048-bit RSA key pair
 -----------------------
 Snowflake Authentication for the Ingest Service requires creating a 2048 bit
 RSA key pair and, registering the public key with Snowflake. For detailed instructions,
-please visit the relevant `Snowflake Documentation Page <docs.snowflake.net>`_.
+please visit the relevant `Snowflake Documentation Page <https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/authentication.html>`_.
 
 
 Furl, PyJWT, Requests, and Cryptography
 ---------------------------------------
 
 Internally, the Snowflake Ingest SDK makes use of `Furl <https://github.com/gruns/furl>`_, 
-`PyJWT <https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt>`_, and `Requests <http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/>`_.
-In addition, the `cryptography <https://cryptography.io/en/latest/>`_ is used with PyJWT to sign JWT tokens.
+`PyJWT <https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt>`_, and `Requests <https://github.com/psf/requests>`_.
+In addition, the `cryptography <https://github.com/pyca/cryptography>`_ is used with PyJWT to sign JWT tokens.
 
 
 Installation
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2acbfe1..9ff6655 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
 # We need to know the version to backfill some dependencies
 from sys import version_info, exit
 # Define our list of installation dependencies
-DEPENDS = ["pyjwt<2.0.0", 
+DEPENDS = ["pyjwt",
            "snowflake-connector-python>=2.2.7", 
-           "furl", 
+           "furl",
            "cryptography",
-           "requests<2.24.0"]
+           "requests<=2.28.1"]
 
 # If we're at version less than 3.4 - fail
 if version_info[0] < 3 or version_info[1] < 4:
diff --git a/snowflake/ingest/utils/network.py b/snowflake/ingest/utils/network.py
index 802cd5c..836003d 100644
--- a/snowflake/ingest/utils/network.py
+++ b/snowflake/ingest/utils/network.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# import python connector to inject ocsp check method into requests library
 import snowflake.connector
 import requests
 from requests import Response
diff --git a/snowflake/ingest/utils/tokentools.py b/snowflake/ingest/utils/tokentools.py
index f43e5b2..3349f02 100644
--- a/snowflake/ingest/utils/tokentools.py
+++ b/snowflake/ingest/utils/tokentools.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def get_token(self) -> Text:
             self.token = jwt.encode(payload, self.private_key, algorithm=SecurityManager.ALGORITHM)
             logger.info("New Token created")
 
-        return self.token.decode('utf-8')
+        return self.token.decode('utf-8') if isinstance(self.token, bytes) else self.token
 
     def calculate_public_key_fingerprint(self, private_key: Text) -> Text:
         """
diff --git a/snowflake/ingest/version.py b/snowflake/ingest/version.py
index 06f9275..c12adf1 100644
--- a/snowflake/ingest/version.py
+++ b/snowflake/ingest/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2012-2020 Snowflake Computing Inc. All rights reserved.
 # Update this for the versions
-__version__ = '1.0.4'
+__version__ = '1.0.5'