diff --git a/bob.txt b/bob.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b13789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bob.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/btrdb/__init__.py b/btrdb/__init__.py
index a7019c7..cd14662 100644
--- a/btrdb/__init__.py
+++ b/btrdb/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 from btrdb.exceptions import ConnectionError
 from btrdb.version import get_version
 from btrdb.utils.credentials import credentials_by_profile, credentials
+from btrdb.utils.ray import register_serializer
 from btrdb.stream import MINIMUM_TIME, MAXIMUM_TIME
+from warnings import warn
 
 ##########################################################################
 ## Module Variables
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@
 def _connect(endpoints=None, apikey=None):
     return BTrDB(Endpoint(Connection(endpoints, apikey=apikey).channel))
 
-def connect(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
+def connect(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None, shareable=False):
     """
     Connect to a BTrDB server.
 
@@ -57,6 +59,12 @@ def connect(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
         The name of a profile containing the required connection information as
         found in the user's predictive grid credentials file
         `~/.predictivegrid/credentials.yaml`.
+    shareable: bool, default=False
+        Whether or not the connection can be "shared" in a distributed setting such
+        as Ray workers. If set to True, the connection can be serialized and sent
+        to other workers so that data can be retrieved in parallel; **however**, this
+        is less secure because it is possible for other users of the Ray cluster to
+        use your API key to fetch data.
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -68,6 +76,11 @@ def connect(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
     if conn_str and profile:
         raise ValueError("Received both conn_str and profile arguments.")
 
+    # check shareable flag and register custom serializer if necessary
+    if shareable:
+        warn("a shareable connection is potentially insecure; other users of the same cluster may be able to access your API key")
+        register_serializer(conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile)
+
     # use specific profile if requested
     if profile:
         return _connect(**credentials_by_profile(profile))
diff --git a/btrdb/conn.py b/btrdb/conn.py
index 55058a4..bb79f2f 100644
--- a/btrdb/conn.py
+++ b/btrdb/conn.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import json
+import certifi
 import uuid as uuidlib
 
 import grpc
@@ -65,12 +66,25 @@ def __init__(self, addrportstr, apikey=None):
             # grpc bundles its own CA certs which will work for all normal SSL
             # certificates but will fail for custom CA certs. Allow the user
             # to specify a CA bundle via env var to overcome this
-            ca_bundle = os.getenv("BTRDB_CA_BUNDLE","")
-            if ca_bundle != "":
+            env_bundle = os.getenv("BTRDB_CA_BUNDLE", "")
+
+            # certifi certs are provided as part of this package install
+            # https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi
+            lib_certs = certifi.where()
+
+            ca_bundle = env_bundle
+
+            if ca_bundle == "":
+                ca_bundle = lib_certs
+            try:
                 with open(ca_bundle, "rb") as f:
                     contents = f.read()
-            else:
-                contents = None
+            except Exception:
+                if env_bundle != "":
+                    # The user has given us something but we can't use it, we need to make noise
+                    raise Exception("BTRDB_CA_BUNDLE(%s) env is defined but could not read file" % ca_bundle)
+                else:
+                    contents = None
 
             if apikey is None:
                 self.channel = grpc.secure_channel(
diff --git a/btrdb/transformers.py b/btrdb/transformers.py
index 12f7979..1cf346c 100644
--- a/btrdb/transformers.py
+++ b/btrdb/transformers.py
@@ -145,13 +145,15 @@ def to_dataframe(streamset, columns=None, agg="mean", name_callable=None):
 
 
     df = pd.DataFrame(to_dict(streamset,agg=agg))
-    df = df.set_index("time")
 
-    if agg == "all" and not streamset.allow_window:
-        stream_names = [[s.collection, s.name, prop] for s in streamset._streams for prop in _STAT_PROPERTIES]
-        df.columns=pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(stream_names)
-    else:
-        df.columns =  columns if columns else _stream_names(streamset, name_callable)
+    if not df.empty:
+        df = df.set_index("time")
+
+        if agg == "all" and not streamset.allow_window:
+            stream_names = [[s.collection, s.name, prop] for s in streamset._streams for prop in _STAT_PROPERTIES]
+            df.columns=pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples(stream_names)
+        else:
+            df.columns =  columns if columns else _stream_names(streamset, name_callable)
 
     return df
 
diff --git a/btrdb/utils/ray.py b/btrdb/utils/ray.py
index 8df9527..674ab64 100644
--- a/btrdb/utils/ray.py
+++ b/btrdb/utils/ray.py
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-from functools import partial
-
-import ray
-
 import btrdb
 from btrdb.conn import BTrDB
+from functools import partial
 
 def register_serializer(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
     """
@@ -22,8 +19,27 @@ def register_serializer(conn_str=None, apikey=None, profile=None):
         found in the user's predictive grid credentials file
         `~/.predictivegrid/credentials.yaml`.
     """
-    ray.register_custom_serializer(
-    BTrDB, serializer=btrdb_serializer, deserializer=partial(btrdb_deserializer, conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile))
+    try:
+        import ray
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError("must pip install ray to register custom serializer")
+    try:
+        import semver
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError("must pip install semver to register custom serializer")
+  
+    assert ray.is_initialized(), "Need to call ray.init() before registering custom serializer"
+    # TODO: check the version using the 'semver' package?
+    ver = semver.VersionInfo.parse(ray.__version__)
+    if ver.major == 0:
+        ray.register_custom_serializer(
+        BTrDB, serializer=btrdb_serializer, deserializer=partial(btrdb_deserializer, conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile))
+    elif ver.major == 1 and ver.minor in range(2, 4):
+        # TODO: check different versions of ray?
+        ray.util.register_serializer(
+        BTrDB, serializer=btrdb_serializer, deserializer=partial(btrdb_deserializer, conn_str=conn_str, apikey=apikey, profile=profile))
+    else:
+        raise Exception("Ray version %s does not have custom serialization. Please upgrade to >= 1.2.0" % ray.__version__)
 
 def btrdb_serializer(_):
     """
diff --git a/btrdb/version.py b/btrdb/version.py
index 6df466a..4bff3e4 100644
--- a/btrdb/version.py
+++ b/btrdb/version.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ## Module Info
 ##########################################################################
 
-__version_info__ = { 'major': 5, 'minor': 11, 'micro': 0, 'releaselevel': 'final'}
+__version_info__ = { 'major': 5, 'minor': 11, 'micro': 7, 'releaselevel': 'final'}
 
 ##########################################################################
 ## Helper Functions
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index e221fcb..79f76de 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
 project = 'btrdb'
-copyright = '2019, Michael P. Andersen'
-author = 'Michael P. Andersen'
+copyright = '2021, Ping Things, Inc.'
+author = 'PingThingsIO'
 
 # The short X.Y version
 version = get_version()
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 #
 html_theme_options = {
     'show_powered_by': False,
-    'github_user': 'BTrDB',
+    'github_user': 'PingThingsIO',
     'github_repo': 'btrdb-python',
     'travis_button': False,
     'github_banner': False,
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 #  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
 latex_documents = [
     (master_doc, 'btrdb-python.tex', 'btrdb-python Documentation',
-     'Michael Andersen', 'manual'),
+     'PingThingsIO', 'manual'),
 ]
 
 
diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index 66d2de0..da1b71e 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Welcome to btrdb docs!
 ======================
 
-.. image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/BTrDB/btrdb-python/master.svg
-    :target: https://travis-ci.org/BTrDB/btrdb-python
+.. image:: https://github.com/PingThingsIO/btrdb-python/actions/workflows/release.yaml/badge.svg
+    :target: https://github.com/PingThingsIO/btrdb-python/actions
 
 .. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/btrdb/badge/?version=latest
     :target: https://btrdb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index 6f6595a..9104416 100755
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ fi
 
 echo "Setting version to v$1.$2.$3"
 
-VERION_CODE="__version_info__ = { 'major': $1, 'minor': $2, 'micro': $3, 'releaselevel': 'final'}"
-sed -i "s/^__version_info__.*$/${VERION_CODE}/g" btrdb/version.py
+VERSION_CODE="__version_info__ = { 'major': $1, 'minor': $2, 'micro': $3, 'releaselevel': 'final'}"
+sed -i.bak "s/^__version_info__.*$/${VERSION_CODE}/g" btrdb/version.py
 
 git add btrdb/version.py
 git commit -m "Release v$1.$2.$3"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b12c1a6..0d89f56 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ grpcio-tools>=1.19.0
 pytz
 
 # Misc libraries
-pyyaml
\ No newline at end of file
+pyyaml
+certifi
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0e515f2..2997b26 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
 ## Basic information
 NAME         = "btrdb"
 DESCRIPTION  = "Bindings to interact with the Berkeley Tree Database using gRPC."
-AUTHOR       = "Michael Andersen, Allen Leis"
-EMAIL        = "michael@steelcode.com"
-MAINTAINER   = "Michael Andersen"
+AUTHOR       = "PingThingsIO"
+EMAIL        = "support@pingthings.io"
+MAINTAINER   = "PingThingsIO"
 LICENSE      = "BSD-3-Clause"
-REPOSITORY   = "https://github.com/BTrDB/btrdb-python"
+REPOSITORY   = "https://github.com/PingThingsIO/btrdb-python"
 PACKAGE      = "btrdb"
 URL          = "http://btrdb.io/"
 DOCS_URL     = "https://btrdb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"