diff --git a/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi b/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi
index 5a26c9a9..68900a92 100644
--- a/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi
+++ b/python/python/lancedb/_lancedb.pyi
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ class Tags:
     async def update(self, tag: str, version: int): ...
 
 class IndexConfig:
+    name: str
     index_type: str
     columns: List[str]
 
diff --git a/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py b/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py
index ca8788a1..81d46d35 100644
--- a/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py
+++ b/python/python/lancedb/remote/table.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
         index_type: Literal["BTREE", "BITMAP", "LABEL_LIST", "scalar"] = "scalar",
         *,
         replace: bool = False,
-        wait_timeout: timedelta = None,
+        wait_timeout: Optional[timedelta] = None,
         name: Optional[str] = None,
     ):
         """Creates a scalar index
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ class RemoteTable(Table):
         column: str,
         *,
         replace: bool = False,
-        wait_timeout: timedelta = None,
+        wait_timeout: Optional[timedelta] = None,
         with_position: bool = False,
         # tokenizer configs:
         base_tokenizer: str = "simple",