diff --git a/.github/workflows/bioconda.yml b/.github/workflows/bioconda.yml
index 5062372db..9192d8fac 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bioconda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bioconda.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ env:
 jobs:
 
   publish-to-bioconda:
+    if: "!github.event.release.prerelease"
+
     name: "Publish to Bioconda"
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/cli.yml b/.github/workflows/cli.yml
index e2d5306ad..49c134732 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cli.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cli.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: cli
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: ['master', 'staging-cli', 'release-cli']
+    branches: [ 'master', 'staging-cli', 'release-cli' ]
 
   pull_request:
 
@@ -102,8 +102,20 @@ jobs:
             cache-v1-cargo-${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.arch }}-
             cache-v1-cargo-${{ runner.os }}-
 
+      - name: "Install deps"
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p "${HOME}/bin"
+          curl -fsSL "https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v1.24.3/dasel_linux_amd64" -o "${HOME}/bin/dasel" && chmod +x "${HOME}/bin/dasel"
+
       - name: "Prepare .env file"
         run: |
+          export PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/bin"
+
+          version=$(dasel select -p toml -s ".package.version" -f "packages_rs/nextclade/Cargo.toml")
+          if [[ "$version" =~ (rc|beta|alpha) ]]; then
+              export DATA_FULL_DOMAIN="https://data.master.clades.nextstrain.org/v3"
+          fi
+
           cp .env.example .env
           sed -i -e "s|OSXCROSS_URL=http://example.com/osxcross/osxcross.tar.xz|OSXCROSS_URL=${{ secrets.OSXCROSS_URL }}|g" .env
           sed -i -e "s|DATA_FULL_DOMAIN=https://data.master.clades.nextstrain.org/v3|DATA_FULL_DOMAIN=${DATA_FULL_DOMAIN}|g" .env
@@ -251,28 +263,28 @@ jobs:
           chmod +x ./.out/*
           JOBS=2 ./tests/run-smoke-tests ./.out/nextclade-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
 
-#  run-smoke-tests-mac:
-#    name: "Run smoke tests (mac)"
-#    needs: [ build-cli ]
-#    runs-on: macos-latest
-#
-#    steps:
-#      - name: "Checkout code"
-#        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-#        with:
-#          fetch-depth: 1
-#          submodules: true
-#
-#      - name: "Download build artifacts"
-#        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-#        with:
-#          name: "out"
-#          path: ".out"
-#
-#      - name: "Run smoke tests (mac)"
-#        run: |
-#          chmod +x ./.out/*
-#          ./tests/run-smoke-tests ./.out/nextclade-x86_64-apple-darwin
+  #  run-smoke-tests-mac:
+  #    name: "Run smoke tests (mac)"
+  #    needs: [ build-cli ]
+  #    runs-on: macos-latest
+  #
+  #    steps:
+  #      - name: "Checkout code"
+  #        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+  #        with:
+  #          fetch-depth: 1
+  #          submodules: true
+  #
+  #      - name: "Download build artifacts"
+  #        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+  #        with:
+  #          name: "out"
+  #          path: ".out"
+  #
+  #      - name: "Run smoke tests (mac)"
+  #        run: |
+  #          chmod +x ./.out/*
+  #          ./tests/run-smoke-tests ./.out/nextclade-x86_64-apple-darwin
 
 
   run-linux-distros-test:
@@ -384,8 +396,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: "Install deploy dependencies"
         run: |
           mkdir -p "${HOME}/bin"
-          curl -fsSL "https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v1.24.3/dasel_linux_amd64" -o "${HOME}/bin/dasel"
-          chmod +x "${HOME}/bin/dasel"
+          curl -fsSL "https://github.com/TomWright/dasel/releases/download/v1.24.3/dasel_linux_amd64" -o "${HOME}/bin/dasel" && chmod +x "${HOME}/bin/dasel"
 
       - name: "Login to Docker Hub"
         uses: docker/login-action@v2
diff --git a/docker/docker-prod-scratch.dockerfile b/docker/docker-prod-scratch.dockerfile
index 94ed85b6d..1a44d054b 100644
--- a/docker/docker-prod-scratch.dockerfile
+++ b/docker/docker-prod-scratch.dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 FROM scratch
 
 COPY .out/nextclade-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl /nextclade
-
-RUN set -eux \
-&& ln -s /usr/bin/nextclade /usr/bin/nextalign
+COPY .out/nextclade-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl /nextalign
diff --git a/scripts/publish_github b/scripts/publish_github
index 1c29b6fb6..d31128864 100755
--- a/scripts/publish_github
+++ b/scripts/publish_github
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ prerelease_flag=${release_type:+--prerelease}
 (
   if [ -z "$release_type" ]; then
     ./scripts/extract-release-notes.py CHANGELOG.md
+    cat docs/assets/release-instructions.md
   else
     cat docs/assets/prerelease-warning.md
+    echo "For changes compared to the previous final release version, please refer to \"Unreleased\" section in [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade/blob/${git_sha}/CHANGELOG.md)"
   fi
-  git cliff --current
-  cat docs/assets/release-instructions.md
 ) |
   gh release create \
     "${version}" \