diff --git a/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml b/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
index d842def24..269b9ec2c 100644
--- a/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/exchange/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "ai-exchange"
-version = "0.9.7"
+version = "0.9.8"
 description = "a uniform python SDK for message generation with LLMs"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
diff --git a/packages/exchange/src/exchange/langfuse_wrapper.py b/packages/exchange/src/exchange/langfuse_wrapper.py
index c8cec23ee..23650368b 100644
--- a/packages/exchange/src/exchange/langfuse_wrapper.py
+++ b/packages/exchange/src/exchange/langfuse_wrapper.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def auth_check() -> bool:
 CURRENT_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
 PACKAGE_ROOT = find_package_root(CURRENT_DIR)
 
-LANGFUSE_ENV_FILE = os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, ".env.langfuse.local")
+LANGFUSE_ENV_FILE = os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, ".env.langfuse.local") if PACKAGE_ROOT else None
 HAS_LANGFUSE_CREDENTIALS = False
 load_dotenv(LANGFUSE_ENV_FILE, override=True)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 265cca59b..11f0a4527 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 [project]
 name = "goose-ai"
 description = "a programming agent that runs on your machine"
-version = "0.9.7"
+version = "0.9.8"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
-    "ai-exchange",
+    "ai-exchange==0.9.8",
     "attrs>=23.2.0",
     "rich>=13.7.1",
     "ruamel-yaml>=0.18.6",