diff --git a/core/src/main/java/feast/core/model/FeatureSet.java b/core/src/main/java/feast/core/model/FeatureSet.java
index 59ea592103..947a0c6ca2 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/feast/core/model/FeatureSet.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/feast/core/model/FeatureSet.java
@@ -5,12 +5,9 @@
 import feast.core.FeatureSetProto.EntitySpec;
 import feast.core.FeatureSetProto.FeatureSetSpec;
 import feast.core.FeatureSetProto.FeatureSpec;
-import feast.core.SourceProto;
-import feast.core.util.TypeConversion;
 import feast.types.ValueProto.ValueType;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
 import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
 import javax.persistence.Column;
 import javax.persistence.Entity;
@@ -68,7 +65,8 @@ public FeatureSet() {
     super();
   }
 
-  public FeatureSet(String name, int version, long maxAgeSeconds, List<Field> entities, List<Field> features,
+  public FeatureSet(String name, int version, long maxAgeSeconds, List<Field> entities,
+      List<Field> features,
       Source source) {
     this.id = String.format("%s:%s", name, version);
     this.name = name;
@@ -137,7 +135,8 @@ public FeatureSetSpec toProto() throws InvalidProtocolBufferException {
    */
   public boolean equalTo(FeatureSet other) throws InvalidProtocolBufferException {
     return name.equals(other.getName()) && entities.equals(other.entities) && features
-        .equals(other.features) && source.equalTo(other.getSource());
+        .equals(other.features) && source.equalTo(other.getSource())
+        && maxAgeSeconds == other.maxAgeSeconds;
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/sdk/python/feast/client.py b/sdk/python/feast/client.py
index 71aa873668..b7568c8581 100644
--- a/sdk/python/feast/client.py
+++ b/sdk/python/feast/client.py
@@ -213,7 +213,14 @@ def _apply_feature_set(self, feature_set: FeatureSet):
                 timeout=GRPC_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_APPLY,
             )  # type: ApplyFeatureSetResponse
             applied_fs = FeatureSet.from_proto(apply_fs_response.feature_set)
-            feature_set._update_from_feature_set(applied_fs, is_dirty=False)
+
+            if apply_fs_response.status == ApplyFeatureSetResponse.Status.CREATED:
+                print(f'Feature set updated/created: "{applied_fs.name}:{applied_fs.version}".')
+                feature_set._update_from_feature_set(applied_fs, is_dirty=False)
+                return
+            if apply_fs_response.status == ApplyFeatureSetResponse.Status.NO_CHANGE:
+                print(f'No change detected in feature set {feature_set.name}:{feature_set.version}')
+                return
         except grpc.RpcError as e:
             print(format_grpc_exception("ApplyFeatureSet", e.code(), e.details()))
 
diff --git a/sdk/python/feast/feature_set.py b/sdk/python/feast/feature_set.py
index 3760300056..db03d9a356 100644
--- a/sdk/python/feast/feature_set.py
+++ b/sdk/python/feast/feature_set.py
@@ -305,8 +305,10 @@ def ingest(
         force_update: bool = False,
         timeout: int = 5,
         max_workers: int = CPU_COUNT,
+        disable_progress_bar: bool = False
     ):
-        pbar = tqdm(unit="rows", total=dataframe.shape[0])
+
+        pbar = tqdm(unit="rows", total=dataframe.shape[0], disable=disable_progress_bar)
         q = Queue()
         proc = Process(target=self._listener, args=(pbar, q))
         try:
diff --git a/tests/e2e/basic/data.csv b/tests/e2e/basic/data.csv
index be1ba79ada..d2994d253a 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/basic/data.csv
+++ b/tests/e2e/basic/data.csv
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-datetime,customer,daily_transactions,total_transactions
+datetime,customer_id,daily_transactions,total_transactions
 1570366527,1001,1.3,500
 1570366536,1002,1.4,600
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