diff --git a/make-release.sh b/make-release.sh
index 16b5b1bba2818fc427a286a22b90c31cde8572d3..fb4870b75b6877ccb28b7ce838b29d9eb7d94b5e 100644
--- a/make-release.sh
+++ b/make-release.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 ## properly configured in this script.
 
 # if version is unset, will use the default experimental version from site.mk
-VERSION=${3:-"2016.2.1~exp$(date '+%y%m%d%H%M')"}
+VERSION=${3:-"2016.2.1"}
 # branch must be set to either experimental, beta or stable
 BRANCH=${2:-"stable"}
 # must point to valid ecdsa signing key created by ecdsakeygen, relative to Gluon base directory
@@ -101,5 +101,4 @@ then
 fi
 cd site
 date >> build.log
-mv -v ../output/images "../output/$VERSION"
 echo "Done :)"
diff --git a/site.mk b/site.mk
index 89a862451c62065881f92210c4b1c022baefb6f2..725a3a773ac8b7c18bc6370f1b335a667d36450b 100644
--- a/site.mk
+++ b/site.mk
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ GLUON_SITE_PACKAGES += \
 
 # Always call `make` from the command line with the desired release version!
 # otherwise this is generated:
-DEFAULT_GLUON_RELEASE := 2016.2~exp$(shell date '+%y%m%d%H%M')
+DEFAULT_GLUON_RELEASE := 2016.2.1
 
 # Allow overriding the release number from the command line
 GLUON_RELEASE ?= $(DEFAULT_GLUON_RELEASE)