diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8244d0dc..f57b3bd7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Any time anyone pushes to `main` or does any pull request, the GitHub Actions [t
 
 ### Releasing
 
-#### With GitHub Actions
+#### To PyPI With GitHub Actions
 To release the package with GitHub Actions, you can follow these steps:
 
 1. With the changes already committed, create a new branch in the format `v<major>.<minor>.<patch>`. For example `v0.2.1`.
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ To release the package with GitHub Actions, you can follow these steps:
 1. Open a pull request into the main branch and make sure all checks pass.
 1. Once the pull request is merged into the main branch by a reviewer, create a new GitHub release and create a tag that matches the branch name. Once the release is created, a [GitHub action](https://github.com/NREL/altrios/blob/686e8c28828cb980cc45567d08091e69b7bee52c/.github/workflows/wheels.yaml#L5) will be launched to build the wheels and publish them to PyPI. 
 
+#### To crates.io
+Instructions for releasing `altrios-core` and `altrios-proc-macros` are found in the README.md files in both of these crates.  `altrios-core-py` is a `cdylib` crate and cannot be released.  
+
 # How to run ALTRIOS
 
 With your activated Python environment with ALTRIOS fully installed, you can download the demo scripts to the current working directory inside of a `demos/` folder with:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8ec54f63..e0a57663 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "altrios"
-version = "0.1.1.post2"
+version = "0.1.2"
 authors = [
     { name = "ALTRIOS Team", email = "altrios@nrel.gov" },
     { name = "Chad Baker, Lead Developer" },
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ dependencies = [
     "requests",
 ]
 
+[project.urls]
+homepage = "https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/altrios.html"
+source = "https://github.com/NREL/altrios"
+
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = ["black", "pytest", "maturin", "ipykernel"]
 
-[project.urls]
-Homepage = "https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/altrios.html"
-
 [tool.maturin]
 profile = "release"
 python-source = "python"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 60b3a458..e43c049c 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ alive-progress==3.1.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pymoo
+appnope==0.1.3
+    # via
+    #   ipykernel
+    #   ipython
 asttokens==2.2.1
     # via stack-data
 autograd==1.5
@@ -24,17 +28,20 @@ backcall==0.2.0
     # via ipython
 black==23.3.0
     # via altrios
+certifi==2023.7.22
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   requests
+charset-normalizer==3.3.0
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   requests
 click==8.1.3
     # via black
 cma==3.2.2
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pymoo
-colorama==0.4.6
-    # via
-    #   click
-    #   ipython
-    #   pytest
 comm==0.1.3
     # via ipykernel
 contourpy==1.0.7
@@ -77,6 +84,10 @@ grapheme==0.6.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   alive-progress
+idna==3.4
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   requests
 iniconfig==2.0.0
     # via pytest
 ipykernel==6.23.0
@@ -145,6 +156,8 @@ parso==0.8.3
     # via jedi
 pathspec==0.11.1
     # via black
+pexpect==4.8.0
+    # via ipython
 pickleshare==0.7.5
     # via ipython
 pillow==9.5.0
@@ -169,6 +182,8 @@ prompt-toolkit==3.0.38
     # via ipython
 psutil==5.9.5
     # via ipykernel
+ptyprocess==0.7.0
+    # via pexpect
 pure-eval==0.2.2
     # via stack-data
 pyarrow==12.0.0
@@ -177,7 +192,7 @@ pyarrow==12.0.0
     #   altrios
 pygments==2.15.1
     # via ipython
-pymoo==0.6
+pymoo==0.6.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   altrios
@@ -197,8 +212,6 @@ pytz==2023.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pandas
-pywin32==306
-    # via jupyter-core
 pyyaml==6.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
@@ -207,6 +220,10 @@ pyzmq==25.0.2
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   jupyter-client
+requests==2.31.0
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   altrios
 scipy==1.10.1
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
@@ -218,6 +235,7 @@ seaborn==0.12.2
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   asttokens
     #   python-dateutil
 stack-data==0.6.2
     # via ipython
@@ -230,7 +248,7 @@ tomli==2.0.1
     #   black
     #   maturin
     #   pytest
-tornado>=6.3.2
+tornado==6.3.3
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   jupyter-client
@@ -250,6 +268,10 @@ tzdata==2023.3
     # via
     #   -c requirements.txt
     #   pandas
+urllib3==2.0.6
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements.txt
+    #   requests
 wcwidth==0.2.6
     # via prompt-toolkit
 wrapt==1.15.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6133eb1f..ba1758e4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ alive-progress==3.1.2
     # via pymoo
 autograd==1.5
     # via pymoo
+certifi==2023.7.22
+    # via requests
+charset-normalizer==3.3.0
+    # via requests
 cma==3.2.2
     # via pymoo
 contourpy==1.0.7
@@ -28,16 +32,18 @@ future==0.18.3
     # via autograd
 grapheme==0.6.0
     # via alive-progress
+idna==3.4
+    # via requests
 kiwisolver==1.4.4
     # via matplotlib
 matplotlib==3.7.1
     # via
-    #   altrios (setup.py)
+    #   altrios (pyproject.toml)
     #   pymoo
     #   seaborn
 numpy==1.24.3
     # via
-    #   altrios (setup.py)
+    #   altrios (pyproject.toml)
     #   autograd
     #   cma
     #   contourpy
@@ -48,25 +54,25 @@ numpy==1.24.3
     #   scipy
     #   seaborn
 openpyxl==3.1.2
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 packaging==23.1
     # via
     #   matplotlib
     #   plotly
 pandas==2.0.1
     # via
-    #   altrios (setup.py)
+    #   altrios (pyproject.toml)
     #   seaborn
 pillow==9.5.0
     # via matplotlib
 plotly==5.14.1
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 polars==0.18.7
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 pyarrow==12.0.0
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
-pymoo==0.6
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
+pymoo==0.6.0
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 pyparsing==3.0.9
     # via matplotlib
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
@@ -76,20 +82,24 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
 pytz==2023.3
     # via pandas
 pyyaml==6.0
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
+requests==2.31.0
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 scipy==1.10.1
     # via pymoo
 seaborn==0.12.2
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 six==1.16.0
     # via python-dateutil
 tenacity==8.2.2
     # via plotly
 typing-extensions==4.5.0
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
 tzdata==2023.3
     # via pandas
+urllib3==2.0.6
+    # via requests
 wrapt==1.15.0
     # via deprecated
 xlrd==2.0.1
-    # via altrios (setup.py)
+    # via altrios (pyproject.toml)
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.lock b/rust/Cargo.lock
index fe4132ee..312148f5 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.lock
+++ b/rust/Cargo.lock
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ checksum = "0942ffc6dcaadf03badf6e6a2d0228460359d5e34b57ccdc720b7382dfbd5ec5"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "altrios-core"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 dependencies = [
  "altrios-proc-macros",
  "anyhow",
diff --git a/rust/altrios-core/Cargo.toml b/rust/altrios-core/Cargo.toml
index 216e47be..cef64296 100644
--- a/rust/altrios-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/altrios-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [package]
 name = "altrios-core"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 authors = ["NREL/MTES/CIMS/MBAP Group"]
 description = "ALTRIOS Core model for train simulation"
 homepage = "https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/altrios.html"
-readme = "../../README.md"
+readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/NREL/altrios"
 
 [dependencies]
diff --git a/rust/altrios-core/README.md b/rust/altrios-core/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8766bfd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/altrios-core/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# altrios-core
+
+This crate is primarily intended to be used as a backend for the [ALTRIOS PyPI package](https://pypi.org/project/altrios/), but it can also function as a dependency for other crates.  
+
+## Developers
+To release this crate, you need to be setup as developer for this crate in crates.io.  After making changes and updating the version number in Cargo.toml, you can run `cargo publish --dry-run` to make sure everything checks and then run `cargo publish` to release the update.  
+
+In the future, we may incorporate this into GitHub Actions.  
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diff --git a/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/Cargo.toml b/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/Cargo.toml
index bd56a7df..a7e2b5ec 100644
--- a/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 authors = ["NREL/MTES/CIMS/MBAP Group"]
 description = "ALTRIOS procedural macros"
 homepage = "https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/altrios.html"
-readme = "../../../README.md"
+readme = "README.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/NREL/altrios"
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
diff --git a/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/README.md b/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..26c3ff3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/altrios-core/altrios-proc-macros/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# altrios-proc-macros
+
+This crate contains procedural macros used in [altrios-core](https://crates.io/crates/altrios-core).
+
+## Developers
+To release this crate, you need to be setup as developer for this crate in crates.io.  After making changes and updating the version number in Cargo.toml, you can run `cargo publish --dry-run` to make sure everything checks and then run `cargo publish` to release the update.  
+
+In the future, we may incorporate this into GitHub Actions.  
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