diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 470cc7f..af11f35 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and **Merged pull requests**. Critical items to know are:
 The versions coincide with releases on pip. Only major versions will be released as tags on Github.
 
 ## [0.0.x](https://github.com/oras-project/oras-py/tree/main) (0.0.x)
+ - add missing basic auth data for request token function in token auth backend (0.2.2)
  - re-enable chunked upload (0.2.1)
  - refactor of auth to be provided by backend modules (0.2.0)
    - bugfix maintain requests's verify valorization for all invocations, augment basic auth header to existing headers
diff --git a/oras/auth/token.py b/oras/auth/token.py
index cdb8fd0..355848d 100644
--- a/oras/auth/token.py
+++ b/oras/auth/token.py
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ def authenticate_request(
         """
         if refresh:
             self.token = None
-
         authHeaderRaw = original.headers.get("Www-Authenticate")
         if not authHeaderRaw:
             logger.debug(
@@ -122,7 +121,11 @@ def request_token(self, h: auth_utils.authHeader) -> bool:
             logger.debug(f"Scope: {h.scope}")
             params["scope"] = h.scope
 
+        # Set Basic Auth to receive token
+        headers["Authorization"] = "Basic %s" % self._basic_auth
+
         authResponse = self.session.get(h.realm, headers=headers, params=params)  # type: ignore
+
         if authResponse.status_code != 200:
             logger.debug(f"Auth response was not successful: {authResponse.text}")
             return
diff --git a/oras/version.py b/oras/version.py
index 5985032..4f1beeb 100644
--- a/oras/version.py
+++ b/oras/version.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 __copyright__ = "Copyright The ORAS Authors."
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
 
-__version__ = "0.2.1"
+__version__ = "0.2.2"
 AUTHOR = "Vanessa Sochat"
 EMAIL = "vsoch@users.noreply.github.com"
 NAME = "oras"