diff --git a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi.csproj b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi.csproj
index 620043d64..c5f3e09d0 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi.csproj
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <ToolCommandName>hidi</ToolCommandName>
     <PackageOutputPath>./../../artifacts</PackageOutputPath>
-    <Version>1.3.5</Version>
+    <Version>1.3.6</Version>
     <Description>OpenAPI.NET CLI tool for slicing OpenAPI documents</Description>
     <SignAssembly>true</SignAssembly>
     <!-- https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink/blob/main/docs/README.md#embeduntrackedsources -->
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Utilities/SettingsUtilities.cs b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Utilities/SettingsUtilities.cs
index 6ec32f488..f6798287a 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Utilities/SettingsUtilities.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Hidi/Utilities/SettingsUtilities.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 // Licensed under the MIT license.
 
+using System.IO;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.OpenApi.OData;
 
@@ -11,15 +12,19 @@ internal static class SettingsUtilities
         internal static IConfiguration GetConfiguration(string? settingsFile = null)
         {
             if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(settingsFile))
+            {
                 settingsFile = "appsettings.json";
+            }
+
+            var settingsFilePath = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), settingsFile);
 
             IConfiguration config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
-            .AddJsonFile(settingsFile, true)
-            .Build();
+                .AddJsonFile(settingsFilePath, true)
+                .Build();
 
             return config;
         }
-
+        
         internal static OpenApiConvertSettings GetOpenApiConvertSettings(IConfiguration config, string? metadataVersion)
         {
             if (config == null) { throw new System.ArgumentNullException(nameof(config)); }
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers.csproj b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers.csproj
index dd422d6ef..d7d866263 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers/Microsoft.OpenApi.Readers.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
         <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
         <LangVersion>latest</LangVersion>
         <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
-        <Version>1.6.10</Version>
+        <Version>1.6.11</Version>
         <Description>OpenAPI.NET Readers for JSON and YAML documents</Description>
         <SignAssembly>true</SignAssembly>
         <!-- https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink/blob/main/docs/README.md#embeduntrackedsources -->
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Microsoft.OpenApi.csproj b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Microsoft.OpenApi.csproj
index 047a39f77..d949685c6 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Microsoft.OpenApi.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.OpenApi/Microsoft.OpenApi.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
         <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
         <LangVersion>Latest</LangVersion>
         <GeneratePackageOnBuild>true</GeneratePackageOnBuild>
-        <Version>1.6.10</Version>
+        <Version>1.6.11</Version>
         <Description>.NET models with JSON and YAML writers for OpenAPI specification</Description>
         <SignAssembly>true</SignAssembly>
         <!-- https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink/blob/main/docs/README.md#embeduntrackedsources -->