diff --git a/fennel/CHANGELOG.md b/fennel/CHANGELOG.md
index 5df4da2e..6c99e1df 100644
--- a/fennel/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/fennel/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.5.80] - 2025-02-25
+- Use pycurl for xray
+
 ## [1.5.79] - 2025-02-15
 - Bump pyarrow to 16.0.0
 
diff --git a/fennel/client/client.py b/fennel/client/client.py
index 19cc400a..7a5b64b7 100644
--- a/fennel/client/client.py
+++ b/fennel/client/client.py
@@ -867,9 +867,9 @@ def xray(
             url = base_url
 
         response = self._get(url)
-        if response.status_code != requests.codes.OK:
-            raise Exception(response.json())
-        return response.json()
+        if response["status_code"] != 200:
+            raise Exception(response["body"])
+        return response["body"]
 
     def inspect(
         self, dataset: Union[str, Dataset], n: int = 10
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8ac6c0c7..5545dccc 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "fennel-ai"
-version = "1.5.79"
+version = "1.5.80"
 description = "The modern realtime feature engineering platform"
 authors = ["Fennel AI <developers@fennel.ai>"]
 packages = [{ include = "fennel" }]