diff --git a/.github/workflows/codegen-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/codegen-ci.yml
index 0b2bad8e6..0f31d8a1f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/codegen-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/codegen-ci.yml
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ env:
   LOOKERSDK_BASE_URL: https://localhost:20000
   LOOKERSDK_VERIFY_SSL: false
   TS_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR: results/sdk-codegen
-  LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID__21_6 }}
-  LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET__21_6 }}
+  LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID__21_8 }}
+  LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET__21_8 }}
 
 jobs:
   unit:
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ jobs:
         # TODO: can we cache some layers of the image for faster download?
         # we probably don't want to cache the final image for IP security...
         run: |
-          docker pull --quiet us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_6
+          docker pull --quiet us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_8
           # set $LOOKER_OPTS to --no-ssl if we want to turn off ssl
-          docker run --name looker-sdk-codegen-ci -d -p 10000:9999 -p 20000:19999 us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_6
+          docker run --name looker-sdk-codegen-ci -d -p 10000:9999 -p 20000:19999 us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_8
           docker logs -f looker-sdk-codegen-ci --until=30s &
           python ${{ github.workspace }}/.github/scripts/wait_for_looker.py
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lerna-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/lerna-publish.yml
index 50d1919ef..fb529a8f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lerna-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lerna-publish.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ jobs:
     env:
       LOOKERSDK_BASE_URL: https://localhost:20000
       LOOKERSDK_VERIFY_SSL: false
-      LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID__21_4 }}
-      LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET__21_4 }}
+      LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_ID__21_8 }}
+      LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.LOOKERSDK_CLIENT_SECRET__21_8 }}
     steps:
       - name: Clone repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Pull and run Looker docker image
         run: |
-          docker pull --quiet us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_4
-          docker run --name looker-sdk-codegen-ci -d -p 10000:9999 -p 20000:19999 us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_4
+          docker pull --quiet us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_8
+          docker run --name looker-sdk-codegen-ci -d -p 10000:9999 -p 20000:19999 us-west1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-looker-sdk-codegen-cicd/looker/21_8
           docker logs -f looker-sdk-codegen-ci --until=30s &
           python ${{ github.workspace }}/.github/scripts/wait_for_looker.py
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
index 1c9375e5a..92766a8f2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           python-version: 3.x
       - run: pip install -e .
-      - run: pip install mypy
+      - run: pip install mypy types-requests
       - run: mypy looker_sdk/
 
   unit:
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ jobs:
         os:
           - ubuntu
         looker:
-          - '7_20'
           - '21_0'
           - '21_4'
           - '21_6'
+          - '21_8'
           # TODO uncomment `include:` when either macos or windows works to satisfaction.
           #include:
           # TODO: macos matrix leg is functional but it takes ~20 minutes (compared
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tssdk-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/tssdk-ci.yml
index 641635892..5eb36b996 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tssdk-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tssdk-ci.yml
@@ -98,10 +98,10 @@ jobs:
         os:
           - ubuntu
         looker:
-          - '7_20'
           - '21_0'
           - '21_4'
           - '21_6'
+          - '21_8'
 
     steps:
       - name: Repo Checkout
diff --git a/examples/python/README.md b/examples/python/README.md
index 22f596b90..2d07cdbfa 100644
--- a/examples/python/README.md
+++ b/examples/python/README.md
@@ -2,20 +2,33 @@
 
 You can find Python language examples in this folder.
 
-## Connection management
+## Connection Management
 
 - [Test a specified connection](test_connection.py)
 
-## Manage Dashboards
+## Content Access Management 
+
+- [Add a board or dashboard to Favorites for a list of users](add_contents_to_favorite.py)
+
+## Dashboards Management 
 
 - [Soft delete dashboard](soft_delete_dashboard.py)
 
-## Manage Render Tasks
+## Render Tasks Management 
 
 - [Download dashboard tile in specified format](download_tile.py)
 - [Download look in specified format](download_look.py)
 - [Generate and download dashboard PDFs](download_dashboard_pdf.py)
 
+## Schedules Management  
+
+- [Transfer all schedules of a user to another user](transfer_all_schedules.py)
+
 ## User Management
 
 - [Disable all active user sessions](logout_all_users.py)
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/examples/python/add_contents_to_favorite.py b/examples/python/add_contents_to_favorite.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb558ac2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/python/add_contents_to_favorite.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+""" 
+The purpose of this script is to add a specific Dashboard or Board to "Favorites" 
+for a list of users, which may help new users discover useful Looker contents quicker and easier. 
+
+The script contains two functions (add_boards_to_users and add_dashboards_to_users) that are similar 
+in logic and execution. Example function calls are placed at the end of the script. 
+
+Author: Lan
+Last modified: June 16, 2021
+"""
+
+import looker_sdk
+
+sdk = looker_sdk.init40()  
+
+def add_boards_to_users(board_id: int, users_id: list):
+
+  """ Add a specific board to the "Favorite" contents for a list of user
+  
+  Args: 
+    board_id (int): id of a Looker board (https://company.looker.com/boards/id)
+    users_id (list): a list of users id (int) in the form of a native Python list
+  
+  Returns: "Successfully added!" (str)
+  
+  Raises: N/A (does not explicitly raise an exception); Looker SDK will raise an error.
+  """
+ 
+  content_metadata_id = sdk.board(board_id=board_id)['content_metadata_id'] 
+
+  """An admin can not update the list of favorite contents for users, 
+  so sdk.auth.login_user() and sdk.auth.logout() are called to sudo as each user to call `create_content_favorite()"""
+  for i in users_id: 
+    sdk.auth.login_user(i)
+    params = {}
+    params["user_id"] = i 
+    params["content_metadata_id"] = content_metadata_id
+    sdk.create_content_favorite(params)
+    sdk.auth.logout() 
+
+  print("Successfully added!")
+
+
+
+""" The logic for `add_dashboards_to_users` is the same, except that `dashboard_id` is a string (because LookML dashboard id is a string). 
+Also, we are using `sdk.dashboard()` to retrieve `content_metadata_id`"""
+
+
+def add_dashboards_to_users(dashboard_id: str, users_id: list):
+
+  """ Add a specific dashboard to the list of favorite contents for a list of user
+  
+  Args: 
+    dashboard_id (str): id of a Looker dashboard (https://company.looker.com/dashboards/id)
+    users_id (list): a list of users id in the form of a native Python list
+  
+  Returns: "Successfully added!" (str)
+  
+  Raises: N/A (does not explicitly raise an exception); Looker SDK will raise an error.
+  """
+ 
+  content_metadata_id = sdk.dashboard(dashboard_id=dashboard_id)['content_metadata_id'] 
+
+  """An admin can not update the list of favorite contents for users, 
+  sdk.auth.login_user() and `sdk.auth.logout()` are called to sudo as each user to call `create_content_favorite()"""
+  for i in users_id: 
+    sdk.auth.login_user(i)
+    params = {}
+    params["user_id"] = i 
+    params["content_metadata_id"] = content_metadata_id
+    sdk.create_content_favorite(params)
+    sdk.auth.logout() 
+
+  print("Successfully added!")
+  
+  
+ 
+# Call the functions
+add_boards_to_users(board_id = 1, users_id = [1])
+add_dashboards_to_users(dashboard_id = "string", users_id = [1])
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/python/transfer_all_schedules.py b/examples/python/transfer_all_schedules.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..836365e6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/python/transfer_all_schedules.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+""" 
+This script transfers all schedules of a user to a different user using their email addreseses as parameter. 
+The script may come in handy when a user leaves an organization, and Looker admins have to re-assign all of 
+their existing schedules to a new user.
+
+The script is using customized if/else conditions to check for edge cases (i.e. if email addresses are associated 
+with existing Looker users, if a user has any schedules, etc.) before reading data and calling the functions.
+
+Author: Lan
+Last modified: June 16, 2021
+"""
+import looker_sdk
+
+sdk = looker_sdk.init40()
+
+def find_user_id(email: str):
+     
+  """ Given an email address, find the corresponding Looker user id
+  Args:    email (str)  
+  Returns: the Looker user id associated with the email addresses (int)
+  Raises:  N/A (does not explicitly raise an exception)
+  """
+  user_id = sdk.search_users(email=email)
+  
+  """ Customized logic block to check if an email address is associated with a Looker user"""
+  if len(user_id) == 0: 
+    return 'There is no user associated with this email' 
+  else:
+    return user_id[0]['id']
+  
+ 
+def find_schedules(user_id: int):
+     
+  """ Return all schedules of a particular user id
+  Args:    user_id (int) 
+  Returns: all schedules of a particular user: result = {'name_of_schedule_plan': id_of_schedule_plan}
+  Raises:  N/A (does not explicitly raise an exception)
+  """
+  result = {}
+  schedule_plans = sdk.all_scheduled_plans(user_id=user_id)
+  for i in schedule_plans:
+    result[i['name']] = i['id']
+  return result
+
+
+def update_owner(current_owner_email: str, new_owner_email: str):
+
+  """ Transfer all schedules of `foo@looker.com` to `bar@looker.com`
+  Args:    current_owner_email (str), new_owner_email (str) 
+  Returns: None (a warning message or a success message will be printed to console) 
+  Raises:  customized warning messages in if/else block 
+  """
+  current_owner_id = find_user_id(current_owner_email)
+  new_owner_id = find_user_id(new_owner_email)  
+  
+  """ This block is executed to check if email addresses provided are associated with two Looker users """
+  
+  if type(new_owner_id) != int and type(new_owner_id) != int:
+    print("The email addresses for both the current owner and the new owner are not associated with any Looker user id")
+
+  elif type(current_owner_id) != int: 
+    print("The email address for the current owner is not associated with any Looker user id")
+
+  elif type(new_owner_id) != int:
+    print("The email address for the new owner is not associated with any Looker user id")
+
+  else: 
+    body = {}
+    body['user_id'] = new_owner_id
+    find = find_schedules(current_owner_id) 
+    for i in find.values(): 
+        sdk.update_scheduled_plan(i,body)
+    print("Successfully transfer all schedules of " + current_owner_email + " to " + new_owner_email)
+
+# Call the function 
+update_owner('foo@looker.com', 'bar@looker.com')
diff --git a/release-please-config.json b/release-please-config.json
index 360e2d78a..4b4b9d6ae 100644
--- a/release-please-config.json
+++ b/release-please-config.json
@@ -4,36 +4,21 @@
   "bump-patch-for-minor-pre-major": true,
   "release-as": "",
   "packages": {
-    "packages/extension-api-explorer": {},
-    "packages/extension-sdk-react": {},
-    "packages/extension-sdk": {},
-    "packages/hackathon": {},
-    "packages/sdk-node": {},
-    "packages/sdk": {},
-    ".": {
-      "release-as": ""
-    },
-    "packages/api-explorer": {
-      "release-as": ""
-    },
-    "packages/run-it": {
-      "release-as": ""
-    },
-    "packages/code-editor": {},
-    "packages/sdk-codegen-scripts": {
-    },
-    "packages/sdk-codegen-utils": {
-    },
-    "packages/sdk-codegen": {
-    },
-    "packages/sdk-rtl": {
-    },
-    "packages/wholly-sheet": {
-      "release-as": ""
-    },
-    "python": {
-      "release-type": "python",
-      "package-name": "looker_sdk"
-    }
+    ".": { "release-as": "" },
+    "packages/api-explorer": { "release-as": "" },
+    "packages/code-editor": { "release-as": "" },
+    "packages/extension-api-explorer": { "release-as": "21.6.1" },
+    "packages/extension-sdk": { },
+    "packages/extension-sdk-react": { "release-as": "21.6.1" },
+    "packages/hackathon": { "release-as": "21.6.1" },
+    "packages/run-it": { "release-as": "" },
+    "packages/sdk": { },
+    "packages/sdk-codegen": { "release-as": "21.0.17" },
+    "packages/sdk-codegen-scripts": { "release-as": "21.0.17" },
+    "packages/sdk-codegen-utils": { },
+    "packages/sdk-node": { },
+    "packages/sdk-rtl": { },
+    "packages/wholly-sheet": { "release-as": "" },
+    "python": { "release-type": "python", "package-name": "looker_sdk" }
   }
 }