diff --git a/check-version.sh b/check-version.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d77bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Github repository
+REPO="pypa/pip"
+
+# Get tag name using Github Rest API
+TAG_NAME=$(curl -s -L -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" -H "Authorization: token ${GITHUB_API_TOKEN}" https://api.github.com/repos/"$REPO"/tags | jq -r '.[0].name')
+
+echo "$TAG_NAME"
diff --git a/pkg.info b/pkg.info
index da52eec..1ad3a0b 100644
--- a/pkg.info
+++ b/pkg.info
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 name: python-pip
 description: The Python package installer
-version: 25.0.1
+version: 26.0.1
 revision: 1
 url: https://github.com/pypa/pip
 license: MIT
+maintainers:
+  - enumdev@enumerated.dev
 architecture: any
 output_architecture: any
 type: source
@@ -11,6 +13,12 @@ depends:
   - python3
 make_depends:
   - python-build
+  - python-flit-core
   - python-installer
   - python-setuptools
   - python-wheel
+downloads:
+  - url: https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/refs/tags/${BPM_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+    extract_to: ${BPM_SOURCE}
+    extract_strip_components: 1
+    checksum: b70256771f5ea127dae3e4bd6a9c9ab4928d1833519e17b132e76bdeec5a373d
diff --git a/source.sh b/source.sh
index c33aea8..a6e308e 100644
--- a/source.sh
+++ b/source.sh
@@ -2,16 +2,6 @@
 # BPM Expects the source code to be extracted into the automatically created 'source' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_SOURCE
 # BPM Expects the output files to be present in the automatically created 'output' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_OUTPUT
 
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/refs/tags/${BPM_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-FILENAME="${DOWNLOAD##*/}"
-
-# The prepare function is executed in the root of the temp directory
-# This function is used for downloading files and putting them into the correct location
-prepare() {
-  wget "$DOWNLOAD"
-  tar -xvf "$FILENAME" --strip-components=1 -C "$BPM_SOURCE"
-}
-
 # The build function is executed in the source directory
 # This function is used to compile the source code
 build() {