diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 7a4ea1d1..ae2a1ea3 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-	".": "1.3.1"
+	".": "1.3.2"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 852469aa..105607a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [1.3.2](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python-core/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2) (2025-02-25)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* Batch building bugs ([#837](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python-core/issues/837)) ([a0dd3c1](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python-core/commit/a0dd3c18d39f9cadbba25109345ee7be8a810a99))
+
 ## [1.3.1](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-python-core/compare/v1.3.0...v1.3.1) (2025-02-06)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 05a348c6..1524fd60 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 name = "msgraph-core"
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-version = "1.3.1"
+version = "1.3.2"
 # x-release-please-end
 authors = [{name = "Microsoft", email = "graphtooling+python@microsoft.com"}]
 description = "Core component of the Microsoft Graph Python SDK"
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 1ccba253..2588fc58 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ attrs==25.1.0 ; python_version >= '3.7'
 
 azure-core==1.32.0 ; python_version >= '3.7'
 
-azure-identity==1.19.0
+azure-identity==1.20.0
 
 build==1.2.2.post1
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ colorama==0.4.6 ; os_name == 'nt'
 
 coverage[toml]==7.6.1 ; python_version >= '3.7'
 
-cryptography==44.0.0 ; python_version >= '3.7'
+cryptography==44.0.1 ; python_version >= '3.7'
 
 dill==0.3.9 ; python_version < '3.11'
 
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ tomli==2.2.1 ; python_version < '3.11'
 
 tomlkit==0.13.2 ; python_version >= '3.7'
 
-trio==0.27.0
+trio==0.29.0
 
 types-python-dateutil==2.9.0.20241206
 
diff --git a/src/msgraph_core/_constants.py b/src/msgraph_core/_constants.py
index 23e148fb..0ce94866 100644
--- a/src/msgraph_core/_constants.py
+++ b/src/msgraph_core/_constants.py
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 30
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-SDK_VERSION = '1.3.1'
+SDK_VERSION = '1.3.2'
 # x-release-please-end
 MS_DEFAULT_SCOPE = 'https://graph.microsoft.com/.default'
diff --git a/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_builder.py b/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_builder.py
index ab544c7c..5bf647cf 100644
--- a/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_builder.py
+++ b/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_builder.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def __init__(
         if request_adapter is None:
             raise ValueError("request_adapter cannot be Null.")
         self._request_adapter = request_adapter
-        self.url_template = f"{self._request_adapter.base_url}/$batch"
+        self.url_template = f"{self._request_adapter.base_url.removesuffix('/')}/$batch"
         self.error_map = error_map or {}
 
     async def post(
diff --git a/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_content.py b/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_content.py
index 0235df8a..fad6053d 100644
--- a/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_content.py
+++ b/src/msgraph_core/requests/batch_request_content.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def finalize(self):
         Finalizes the batch request content.
         """
         self.is_finalized = True
-        return self._requests
+        return self
 
     def _request_by_id(self, request_id: str) -> Optional[BatchRequestItem]:
         """
diff --git a/tests/requests/test_batch_request_content.py b/tests/requests/test_batch_request_content.py
index 81cac044..21554644 100644
--- a/tests/requests/test_batch_request_content.py
+++ b/tests/requests/test_batch_request_content.py
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ def test_add_urllib_request(batch_request_content):
 
 
 def test_finalize(batch_request_content):
-    finalized_requests = batch_request_content.finalize()
+    finalized_batch_request_content = batch_request_content.finalize()
     assert batch_request_content.is_finalized
-    assert finalized_requests == batch_request_content.requests
+    assert finalized_batch_request_content.requests == batch_request_content.requests
 
 
 def test_create_from_discriminator_value():