diff --git a/doc/changes/changelog.md b/doc/changes/changelog.md
index 37c2e8f..34154cb 100644
--- a/doc/changes/changelog.md
+++ b/doc/changes/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Changes
 
+* [0.2.3](changes_0.2.3.md)
 * [0.2.2](changes_0.2.2.md)
 * [0.2.1](changes_0.2.1.md)
 * [0.2.0](changes_0.2.0.md)
@@ -11,6 +12,7 @@
 ---
 hidden:
 ---
+changes_0.2.3
 changes_0.2.2
 changes_0.2.1
 changes_0.2.0
diff --git a/doc/changes/changes_0.2.3.md b/doc/changes/changes_0.2.3.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66e24d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changes/changes_0.2.3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Exasol Notebook Connector 0.2.3, released 2023-11-28
+
+## Summary
+
+This release makes another small update to the connections module
+
+## Changes
+
+* #31: Add a function returning an udf bucket path.
+* #32: Temporarily disables https connection to BucketFs.
diff --git a/exasol/connections.py b/exasol/connections.py
index b358334..69c3cf0 100644
--- a/exasol/connections.py
+++ b/exasol/connections.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import ssl
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Optional, Any
 
 import pyexasol  # type: ignore
 import sqlalchemy  # type: ignore
+
 import exasol.bucketfs as bfs  # type: ignore
 from exasol.secret_store import Secrets
 
@@ -65,11 +66,19 @@ def _extract_ssl_options(conf: Secrets) -> dict:
     return sslopt
 
 
-def get_external_host(conf: Secrets):
+def get_external_host(conf: Secrets) -> str:
     """Constructs the host part of a DB URL using provided configuration parameters."""
     return f"{conf.EXTERNAL_HOST_NAME}:{conf.DB_PORT}"
 
 
+def get_udf_bucket_path(conf: Secrets) -> str:
+    """
+    Builds the path of the BucketFS bucket specified in the configuration,
+    as it's seen in the udf's file system.
+    """
+    return f"/buckets/{conf.BUCKETFS_SERVICE}/{conf.BUCKETFS_BUCKET}"
+
+
 def open_pyexasol_connection(conf: Secrets, **kwargs) -> pyexasol.ExaConnection:
     """
     Opens a pyexasol connection using provided configuration parameters.
@@ -88,7 +97,7 @@ def open_pyexasol_connection(conf: Secrets, **kwargs) -> pyexasol.ExaConnection:
     For other optional parameters the default settings are as per the pyexasol interface.
     """
 
-    conn_params = {
+    conn_params: dict[str, Any] = {
         "dsn": get_external_host(conf),
         "user": conf.USER,
         "password": conf.PASSWORD,
@@ -158,7 +167,11 @@ def open_bucketfs_connection(conf: Secrets) -> bfs.Bucket:
     """
 
     # Set up the connection parameters.
-    buckfs_url_prefix = "https" if _optional_encryption(conf) else "http"
+    # For now, just use the http. Once the exasol.bucketfs is capable of using the
+    # https without validating the server certificate choose between the http and
+    # https depending on the ENCRYPTION setting like in the code below:
+    # buckfs_url_prefix = "https" if _optional_encryption(conf) else "http"
+    buckfs_url_prefix = "http"
     buckfs_url = f"{buckfs_url_prefix}://{conf.EXTERNAL_HOST_NAME}:{conf.BUCKETFS_PORT}"
     buckfs_credentials = {
         conf.BUCKETFS_BUCKET: {
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 39e59f7..90f944c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "exasol-notebook-connector"
-version = "0.2.2"
+version = "0.2.3"
 description = "Components, tools, APIs, and configurations in order to connect Jupyter notebooks to Exasol and various other systems."
 packages = [ {include = "exasol"}, ]
 authors = [ "Christoph Kuhnke <christoph.kuhnke@exasol.com>" ]
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index 0372bfd..f6f5bb5 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 # If you need to change the version, do so in the project.toml, e.g. by using `poetry version X.Y.Z`.
 MAJOR = 0
 MINOR = 2
-PATCH = 2
+PATCH = 3
 VERSION = f"{MAJOR}.{MINOR}.{PATCH}"