diff --git a/docs/src/main/paradox/release-notes.md b/docs/src/main/paradox/release-notes.md
index 0184279ed..546168efb 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/paradox/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/paradox/release-notes.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 ### 0.8.2
 
+* Added ability to pass config options to convenience PySpark session constructor. ([#361](https://github.com/locationtech/rasterframes/issues/361)) 
+* Bumped Spark dependency to version 2.3.4. ([#350](https://github.com/locationtech/rasterframes/issues/350))  
 * Fixed handling of aggregate extent and image size on GeoTIFF writing. ([#362](https://github.com/locationtech/rasterframes/issues/362)) 
 * Fixed issue with `RasterSourceDataSource` swallowing exceptions. ([#267](https://github.com/locationtech/rasterframes/issues/267)) 
 * Fixed SparkML memory pressure issue caused by unnecessary reevaluation, overallocation, and primitive boxing. ([#343](https://github.com/locationtech/rasterframes/issues/343)) 
diff --git a/project/RFDependenciesPlugin.scala b/project/RFDependenciesPlugin.scala
index 85fa87923..f8e21c243 100644
--- a/project/RFDependenciesPlugin.scala
+++ b/project/RFDependenciesPlugin.scala
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ object RFDependenciesPlugin extends AutoPlugin {
     ),
 
     // NB: Make sure to update the Spark version in pyrasterframes/python/setup.py
-    rfSparkVersion := "2.3.3",
+    rfSparkVersion := "2.3.4",
     rfGeoTrellisVersion := "2.3.1",
     rfGeoMesaVersion := "2.2.1",
     //dependencyOverrides += "com.azavea.gdal" % "gdal-warp-bindings" % "33.58d4965"
diff --git a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/docs/__init__.py b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/docs/__init__.py
index 1778c5590..0f728b435 100644
--- a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/docs/__init__.py
+++ b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/docs/__init__.py
@@ -18,25 +18,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 #
 
-import os
-
 from pweave import PwebPandocFormatter
 
 
-def docs_dir():
-    return os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-
-
-# This is temporary until we port to run on web assets.
-def resource_dir():
-    # we may consider using gitpython which I think would be appropriate in the context of building docs
-    # see https://stackoverflow.com/a/41920796/2787937
-    here = docs_dir()
-    test_resource = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(here, '..', '..', '..', 'src', 'test', 'resources'))
-
-    return test_resource
-
-
 class PegdownMarkdownFormatter(PwebPandocFormatter):
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/pyrasterframes/version.py b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/pyrasterframes/version.py
index 55b8dfe06..5f2706e94 100644
--- a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/pyrasterframes/version.py
+++ b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/pyrasterframes/version.py
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@
 #
 
 # Translating Java version from version.sbt to PEP440 norms
-__version__ = '0.8.2.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.8.2'
diff --git a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/requirements.txt b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/requirements.txt
index 945404eaf..20156c3c5 100644
--- a/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/pyrasterframes/src/main/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pytz
 Shapely>=1.6.0
-pyspark==2.3.3  # See issue # 154
+pyspark==2.3.4  # See issue # 154
 numpy>=1.7
 pandas>=0.25.0
 matplotlib<3.0.0  # no python 2.7 support after v2.x.x
diff --git a/version.sbt b/version.sbt
index 05d6fc967..3f0ac0890 100644
--- a/version.sbt
+++ b/version.sbt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version in ThisBuild := "0.8.2-SNAPSHOT"
+version in ThisBuild := "0.8.2"