diff --git a/inference/core/version.py b/inference/core/version.py
index e99dfce48..d49654303 100644
--- a/inference/core/version.py
+++ b/inference/core/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.44.1"
+__version__ = "0.44.2rc2"
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/inference/usage_tracking/collector.py b/inference/usage_tracking/collector.py
index f038f62cd..30fd7d028 100644
--- a/inference/usage_tracking/collector.py
+++ b/inference/usage_tracking/collector.py
@@ -384,8 +384,13 @@ def _update_usage_payload(
             source_usage["ip_address_hash"] = ip_address_hash
             source_usage["is_gpu_available"] = is_gpu_available
             source_usage["execution_duration"] += execution_duration
-            source_usage["roboflow_service_name"] = roboflow_service_name
-            source_usage["roboflow_internal_secret"] = roboflow_internal_secret
+            if (
+                roboflow_service_name
+                and roboflow_service_name != "external"
+                and roboflow_internal_secret
+            ):
+                source_usage["roboflow_service_name"] = roboflow_service_name
+                source_usage["roboflow_internal_secret"] = roboflow_internal_secret
 
     def record_usage(
         self,
@@ -653,8 +658,6 @@ def _extract_usage_params_from_func_kwargs(
                 and func_kwargs["kwargs"]["api_key"]
             ):
                 usage_api_key = func_kwargs["kwargs"]["api_key"]
-            else:
-                logger.debug("Could not obtain API key from func kwargs")
 
         roboflow_service_name = func_kwargs.get("source_info")
         roboflow_internal_secret = func_kwargs.get("service_secret")
diff --git a/requirements/_requirements.txt b/requirements/_requirements.txt
index 010c20b2a..7434c03c4 100644
--- a/requirements/_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/_requirements.txt
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ scikit-image>=0.19.0,<=0.24.0
 requests-toolbelt~=1.0.0
 wheel>=0.38.1,<=0.45.0
 setuptools>=70.0.0  # lack of upper-bound to ensure compatibility with Google Colab (builds to define one if needed)
-networkx~=3.1
-pydantic~=2.6
-pydantic-settings~=2.2
+networkx<=3.4
+pydantic~=2.6.0
+pydantic-settings<2.8
 openai>=1.12.0,<2.0.0
 structlog>=24.1.0,<25.0.0
 zxing-cpp~=2.2.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.cli.txt b/requirements/requirements.cli.txt
index 150ca7a15..66c973eb4 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.cli.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.cli.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ backoff~=2.2.0
 pandas>=2.0.0,<2.3.0
 rich~=13.0.0
 pybase64~=1.0.0
-pydantic~=2.6
+pydantic~=2.6.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.sam.txt b/requirements/requirements.sam.txt
index f855282e4..cb42d955e 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.sam.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.sam.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 rf-segment-anything==1.0
 samv2==0.0.4
-rasterio~=1.3
+rasterio<=1.4.0
 torch>=2.0.1,<=2.4.0
 torchvision>=0.15.2