diff --git a/Lottie-Windows/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET.csproj b/Lottie-Windows/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET.csproj
index eac41ade..4f643fed 100644
--- a/Lottie-Windows/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET.csproj
+++ b/Lottie-Windows/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET/Lottie-Windows-UwpNET.csproj
@@ -14,17 +14,11 @@
     <PackageTags>UWP Toolkit Windows Animations Lottie XAML</PackageTags>
     
     <DefineConstants>UWPNET</DefineConstants>
-    <!-- 
-         Turn off debugging information for now. It is causing errors with winmd generation because
-         the build system is creating CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Lottie.compile.pdb but the winmdexp
-         task expects the name without the "compile." in it.
-     -->
-    <DebugType>none</DebugType>
+    <AllowUnsafeBlocks>true</AllowUnsafeBlocks>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
 <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.UI.Xaml" Version="2.8.7" />
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Windows.CsWinRT" Version="2.2.0" />
     <PackageReference Include="Win2D.uwp" Version="1.28.2" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
diff --git a/build/Lottie-Windows-Uwp.nuspec b/build/Lottie-Windows-Uwp.nuspec
index 864b4f72..d0712fd1 100644
--- a/build/Lottie-Windows-Uwp.nuspec
+++ b/build/Lottie-Windows-Uwp.nuspec
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     <dependencies>
       <group targetFramework="net9.0-windows10.0.26100">
         <dependency id="Microsoft.UI.Xaml" version="2.8.7" />
-        <dependency id="Microsoft.Windows.CsWinRT" version="2.2.0" />
         <dependency id="Win2D.uwp" version="1.28.2" />
       </group>
       <group targetFramework="uap10.0.16299">
@@ -43,6 +42,8 @@
           target="lib\net9.0-windows10.0.26100\" />
     <file src="pack\lib\net9.0-windows10.0.26100.0\CommunityToolkit.Uwp.Lottie.pri"
           target="lib\net9.0-windows10.0.26100\" />
+    <file src="pack\lib\net9.0-windows10.0.26100.0\CommunityToolkit.Uwp.Lottie.pdb"
+          target="lib\net9.0-windows10.0.26100\" />
 
     <file src="pack\lib\uap10.0.16299\CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Lottie.winmd"
           target="lib\uap10.0.16299\" />
@@ -50,5 +51,6 @@
           target="lib\uap10.0.16299\" />
     <file src="pack\lib\uap10.0.16299\CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Lottie.xml"
           target="lib\uap10.0.16299\" />
+          
   </files>
 </package>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/version.json b/version.json
index b04464c5..893ee2bc 100644
--- a/version.json
+++ b/version.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "8.1.240821-rc.{height}",
+  "version": "8.2.250523-rc.{height}",
   "publicReleaseRefSpec": [
     "^refs/heads/main$", // we release out of main
     "^refs/heads/dev$", // we release out of dev