diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e739e1e4b..3785edbe3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+## [1.1.1] - 2024-03-20
+
+### Changed
+
+- Fixed a bug where not providing scopes to `AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider` failed with `UnsupportedOperationException` when attempting to fetch the token. [microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-java#1882](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-java/issues/1882)  
+
 ## [1.1.0] - 2024-02-14
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/components/authentication/azure/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider.java b/components/authentication/azure/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider.java
index 162d02747..b95911616 100644
--- a/components/authentication/azure/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider.java
+++ b/components/authentication/azure/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider.java
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ public AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider(
         if (scopes == null) {
             _scopes = new ArrayList<String>();
         } else {
-            _scopes = Arrays.asList(scopes);
+            _scopes = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(scopes));
         }
         if (allowedHosts == null || allowedHosts.length == 0) {
             _hostValidator = new AllowedHostsValidator();
@@ -128,13 +128,18 @@ public AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider(
                     "com.microsoft.kiota.authentication.additional_claims_provided",
                     decodedClaim != null && !decodedClaim.isEmpty());
 
-            final TokenRequestContext context = new TokenRequestContext();
-            if (_scopes.isEmpty()) {
-                _scopes.add(uri.getScheme() + "://" + uri.getHost() + "/.default");
+            List<String> scopes;
+            if (!_scopes.isEmpty()) {
+                scopes = new ArrayList<>(_scopes);
+            } else {
+                scopes = new ArrayList<>();
+                scopes.add(uri.getScheme() + "://" + uri.getHost() + "/.default");
             }
-            context.setScopes(_scopes);
+
+            final TokenRequestContext context = new TokenRequestContext();
+            context.setScopes(scopes);
             span.setAttribute(
-                    "com.microsoft.kiota.authentication.scopes", String.join("|", _scopes));
+                    "com.microsoft.kiota.authentication.scopes", String.join("|", scopes));
             if (decodedClaim != null && !decodedClaim.isEmpty()) {
                 context.setClaims(decodedClaim);
             }
diff --git a/components/authentication/azure/src/test/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProviderTest.java b/components/authentication/azure/src/test/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProviderTest.java
index 8b7ef127b..3dd49bb1f 100644
--- a/components/authentication/azure/src/test/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProviderTest.java
+++ b/components/authentication/azure/src/test/java/com/microsoft/kiota/authentication/AzureIdentityAccessTokenProviderTest.java
@@ -1,19 +1,27 @@
 package com.microsoft.kiota.authentication;
 
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertLinesMatch;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
 import com.azure.core.credential.AccessToken;
 import com.azure.core.credential.TokenCredential;
 import com.azure.core.credential.TokenRequestContext;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.NullAndEmptySource;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
+import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
 
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
 
 public class AzureIdentityAccessTokenProviderTest {
 
@@ -41,4 +49,57 @@ void testNonLocalhostHttpUrlIsInvalid(String urlString) {
                         accessTokenProvider.getAuthorizationToken(
                                 new URI(urlString), new HashMap<>()));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void testKeepUserProvidedScopes() throws URISyntaxException {
+        var tokenCredential = mock(TokenCredential.class);
+        String[] userProvidedScopes = {
+            "https://graph.microsoft.com/User.Read", "https://graph.microsoft.com/Application.Read"
+        };
+        var accessTokenProvider =
+                new AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider(
+                        tokenCredential, new String[] {}, userProvidedScopes);
+        assertScopes(tokenCredential, accessTokenProvider, userProvidedScopes);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testConfigureDefaultScopeWhenScopesNotProvided() throws URISyntaxException {
+        var tokenCredential = mock(TokenCredential.class);
+        var accessTokenProvider =
+                new AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider(tokenCredential, new String[] {});
+        assertScopes(
+                tokenCredential,
+                accessTokenProvider,
+                new String[] {"https://graph.microsoft.com/.default"});
+    }
+
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @NullAndEmptySource
+    void testConfigureDefaultScopeWhenScopesNullOrEmpty(String[] nullOrEmptyUserProvidedScopes)
+            throws URISyntaxException {
+        var tokenCredential = mock(TokenCredential.class);
+        var accessTokenProvider =
+                new AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider(
+                        tokenCredential, new String[] {}, nullOrEmptyUserProvidedScopes);
+        assertScopes(
+                tokenCredential,
+                accessTokenProvider,
+                new String[] {"https://graph.microsoft.com/.default"});
+    }
+
+    private static void assertScopes(
+            TokenCredential tokenCredential,
+            AzureIdentityAccessTokenProvider accessTokenProvider,
+            String[] expectedScopes)
+            throws URISyntaxException {
+        var tokenRequestContextArgumentCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(TokenRequestContext.class);
+        when(tokenCredential.getTokenSync(tokenRequestContextArgumentCaptor.capture()))
+                .thenReturn(mock(AccessToken.class));
+
+        accessTokenProvider.getAuthorizationToken(
+                new URI("https://graph.microsoft.com"), new HashMap<>());
+
+        List<String> actualScopes = tokenRequestContextArgumentCaptor.getValue().getScopes();
+        assertLinesMatch(Arrays.asList(expectedScopes), actualScopes);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/components/http/okHttp/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/http/middleware/options/UserAgentHandlerOption.java b/components/http/okHttp/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/http/middleware/options/UserAgentHandlerOption.java
index 85f12d7d4..f39687827 100644
--- a/components/http/okHttp/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/http/middleware/options/UserAgentHandlerOption.java
+++ b/components/http/okHttp/src/main/java/com/microsoft/kiota/http/middleware/options/UserAgentHandlerOption.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public UserAgentHandlerOption() {}
 
     private boolean enabled = true;
     @Nonnull private String productName = "kiota-java";
-    @Nonnull private String productVersion = "1.0.6";
+    @Nonnull private String productVersion = "1.1.1";
 
     /**
      * Gets the product name to be used in the user agent header
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 5b73eeac9..ed1814fba 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ org.gradle.caching=true
 mavenGroupId         = com.microsoft.kiota
 mavenMajorVersion = 1
 mavenMinorVersion = 1
-mavenPatchVersion = 0
+mavenPatchVersion = 1
 mavenArtifactSuffix = 
 
 #These values are used to run functional tests