diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ca0c5cd..37568d7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ anyhow = "=1"
 chrono = "0.4.31"
 aws_lambda_events = { version = "0.15.1", default-features = false, features = ["sns", "sqs", "s3"] }
 # The datafusion feature is required to support invariants which may be in error, but is required as of currently released 0.18.2
-deltalake = { version = "0.22.0", features = ["s3", "json", "datafusion"]}
-#deltalake = { git = "https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs", branch = "main", features = ["s3", "json", "datafusion"]}
+#deltalake = { version = "0.21.0", features = ["s3", "json", "datafusion"]}
+deltalake = { git = "https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs", branch = "main", features = ["s3", "json", "datafusion"]}
 #deltalake = { path = "../../delta-io/delta-rs/crates/deltalake", features = ["s3", "json", "datafusion"]}
 tokio = { version = "=1", features = ["macros"] }
 regex = "=1"
diff --git a/Cross.toml b/Cross.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37c541a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cross.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+# This is currently needed to ensure openssl libraries are bundled into the
+# cross compilation image
+#
+# This is due to the reqwest library being pulled in recent releases with
+# default features enabled, including native-tls :(
+[target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
+pre-build = [
+    "dpkg --add-architecture $CROSS_DEB_ARCH",
+    "apt-get update && apt-get install --assume-yes libssl-dev:$CROSS_DEB_ARCH"
+]
diff --git a/ci/build-release.sh b/ci/build-release.sh
index df38d55..07ddd3e 100755
--- a/ci/build-release.sh
+++ b/ci/build-release.sh
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ fi;
 
 . venv/bin/activate
 
-exec cargo lambda build --release --output-format zip
+exec cargo lambda build --compiler cross --release --output-format zip
diff --git a/lambdas/file-loader/src/main.rs b/lambdas/file-loader/src/main.rs
index 2d67d3e..58ca572 100644
--- a/lambdas/file-loader/src/main.rs
+++ b/lambdas/file-loader/src/main.rs
@@ -94,13 +94,6 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
 
     let _ =
         env::var("DELTA_TABLE_URI").expect("The `DELTA_TABLE_URI` must be set in the environment");
-    match env::var("DYNAMO_LOCK_TABLE_NAME") {
-        Ok(_) => {}
-        Err(_) => {
-            warn!("file-loader SHOULD have `DYNAMO_LOCK_TABLE_NAME` set to a valid name, and should have AWS_S3_LOCKING_PROVIDER=dynamodb set so that concurrent writes can be performed safely.");
-        }
-    }
-
     info!("Starting file-loader");
 
     run(service_fn(function_handler)).await