diff --git a/devtools/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/devtools/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index db5e5476a..7993e3a6d 100644
--- a/devtools/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/devtools/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package:
   name: pyemma-dev
   # version number: [base tag]+[commits-upstream]_[git_hash]
   # eg. v2.0+0_g8824162
-  version: {{ GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG + '+' +GIT_BUILD_STR}}
+  version: {{ GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG[1:] + '+' +GIT_BUILD_STR}}
 source:
   path: ../..
 
diff --git a/doc/source/ipython.rst b/doc/source/ipython.rst
index 321bcb126..d01d9a46c 100644
--- a/doc/source/ipython.rst
+++ b/doc/source/ipython.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ the PyEMMA API in action and also describe the workflow of Markov model
 building.
 
 You can download a copy of all notebooks and most of the used data
-`here <https://github.com/markovmodel/PyEMMA_IPython/archive/devel.zip>`_.
+`here <https://github.com/markovmodel/PyEMMA_IPython/archive/master.zip>`_.
 Note that the trajectory of the D.E. Shaw BPTI simulation trajectory is not included
 in this archive, since we're not permitted to share this data. Thus the corresponding
 notebooks can't be run without obtaining the simulation trajectory independently.