diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1dbe5ef..af1f04c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 description = "The companion package to the Rubin citizen science notebooks."
 
-version = "0.4.3"
+version = "0.5.0"
 readme = "README.md"
 dependencies = [
     "panoptes_client",
diff --git a/src/rubin/citsci/pipeline.py b/src/rubin/citsci/pipeline.py
index 7b6cf66..ee18a6d 100644
--- a/src/rubin/citsci/pipeline.py
+++ b/src/rubin/citsci/pipeline.py
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def login_to_zooniverse(self, slug_name, email):
                 self.project = Project.find(slug=slug_name)
                 self.project_id = self.project.id
             else:
-                print("No project was provided! Run the project-template copy cell if you would like to create a new one.")
+                print("No project was provided! Run the create_new_project_from_template() cell if you would like to create a new one.")
             
             print("You now are logged in to the Zooniverse platform.")
         else:
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ def __check_package_version(self):
                 print("To install the latest version, open up a terminal tab and run the following command:")
                 print("    pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall rubin.citsci")
                 print("After the upgrade installation has finished, please restart the kernel for the changes to take effect.")
+                print("Failing to keep the rubin.citsci package up-to-date will likely cause the following cells to fail.")
         except Exception as e:
                 print("ERROR! : An error occurred while attempting to validate that the latest version of the rubin.citsci package is installed. Please notify the EPO citizen science team that this error message has occurred!")
         return
@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ def write_manifest_file(self, manifest, batch_dir):
             Returns the relative path to the manifest.csv
         """   
         
-        if self.project is "":
+        if self.project == "":
             print("Please create or specify a Zooniverse project before attempting to write a manifest file.")
             return
         manifest_filename = 'manifest.csv'
@@ -325,7 +326,7 @@ def send_image_data(self, subject_set_name, zip_path, **options):
             set is available.
         """
 
-        if self.project is "":
+        if self.project == "":
             print("Please create or specify a Zooniverse project before attempting to send image data!")
             return
         print("Send the data to Zooniverse")