diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index de97fd6cd..4dc4273be 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ All notable changes to **pipecat** will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [0.0.41] - 2024-08-22
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - Fix `FastAPIWebsocketOutputTransport` variable name clash with subclass.
 
+- Fix an `AnthropicLLMService` issue with empty arguments in function calling.
+
+### Other
+
+- Fixed `studypal` example errors.
+
 ## [0.0.40] - 2024-08-20
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bd1da578e..40f96636c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 
 # Pipecat
 
-[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pipecat-ai)](https://pypi.org/project/pipecat-ai) [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1239284677165056021
-)](https://discord.gg/pipecat)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pipecat-ai)](https://pypi.org/project/pipecat-ai) [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1239284677165056021)](https://discord.gg/pipecat) <a href="https://app.commanddash.io/agent/github_pipecat-ai_pipecat"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/AI-Code%20Agent-EB9FDA"></a>
 
 `pipecat` is a framework for building voice (and multimodal) conversational agents. Things like personal coaches, meeting assistants, [story-telling toys for kids](https://storytelling-chatbot.fly.dev/), customer support bots, [intake flows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDevgsp9vn0), and snarky social companions.
 
diff --git a/examples/studypal/requirements.txt b/examples/studypal/requirements.txt
index 210c59ebc..2d6e21042 100644
--- a/examples/studypal/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/studypal/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
-PyPDF2==3.0.1
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
+pypdf==4.3.1
 tiktoken==0.7.0
-pipecat-ai[daily,cartesia,openai,silero]==0.0.39
+pipecat-ai[daily,cartesia,openai,silero]==0.0.40
 python-dotenv==1.0.1
diff --git a/examples/studypal/runner.py b/examples/studypal/runner.py
index 949e46b59..068174eec 100644
--- a/examples/studypal/runner.py
+++ b/examples/studypal/runner.py
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ async def configure_with_args(
     daily_rest_helper = DailyRESTHelper(
         daily_api_key=key,
         daily_api_url=os.getenv("DAILY_API_URL", "https://api.daily.co/v1"),
-    )
+        aiohttp_session=aiohttp_session)
 
     # Create a meeting token for the given room with an expiration 1 hour in
     # the future.
     expiry_time: float = 60 * 60
 
-    token = daily_rest_helper.get_token(url, expiry_time)
+    token = await daily_rest_helper.get_token(url, expiry_time)
 
-    return (url, token, args)
\ No newline at end of file
+    return (url, token, args)
diff --git a/examples/studypal/studypal.py b/examples/studypal/studypal.py
index 67b02a9fb..8adfe2954 100644
--- a/examples/studypal/studypal.py
+++ b/examples/studypal/studypal.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import io
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
+from pypdf import PdfReader
 import tiktoken
 
 from pipecat.frames.frames import LLMMessagesFrame