diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3ec04e9..1a12cf4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -75,15 +75,6 @@ The `rasters` package is available as a [pip package on PyPi](https://pypi.org/p
 pip install rasters
 ```
 
-### macOS Installation
-
-If you run into issues with installing the [pykdtree](https://github.com/storpipfugl/pykdtree) dependency on macOS because of the OpenMP library, use [mamba](https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba) to install `pykdtree`:
-
-```
-mamba install pykdtree
-pip install rasters
-```
-
 ## Examples
 
 Import the `Raster` class from the `rasters` package.
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index f0d2d12..aa766f9 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,39 @@
+.PHONY: clean test build twine-upload dist environment install uninstall reinstall test
+
 clean:
-	rm -rf build/ dist/ *.egg-info/
+	rm -rf *.o *.out *.log
+	rm -rf build/
+	rm -rf dist/
+	rm -rf *.egg-info
+	rm -rf .pytest_cache
+	find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -exec rm -rf {} +
+
+test:
+	pytest
 
 build:
 	python -m build
 
-publish:
+twine-upload:
+	twine upload dist/*
+
+dist:
 	make clean
 	make build
-	twine upload dist/*
+	make twine-upload
+
+environment:
+	mamba create -y -n rasters python=3.11 jupyter
+
+remove-environment:
+	mamba env remove -y -n rasters
+
+install:
+	pip install -e .[dev]
+
+uninstall:
+	pip uninstall -y rasters
+
+reinstall:
+	make uninstall
+	make install
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1cdd13f..410e01d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "rasters"
-version = "1.4.3"
+version = "1.4.4"
 description = "raster processing toolkit"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "scikit-image",
     "affine",
     "astropy",
-    "pykdtree",
+    "pykdtree>=1.3.11",
     "pyresample",
     "pytest",
     "scipy",
@@ -40,8 +40,11 @@ requires-python = ">=3.11"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = [
+    "build",
+    "jupyter",
     "pytest>=6.0",
-    "pytest-cov",  # For test coverage reports (optional)
+    "pytest-cov",
+    "twine"
 ]
 
 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
diff --git a/rasters/version.txt b/rasters/version.txt
index 3c80e4f..e1df5de 100644
--- a/rasters/version.txt
+++ b/rasters/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.4.3
\ No newline at end of file
+1.4.4
\ No newline at end of file