diff --git a/.github/workflows/conda.yml b/.github/workflows/conda.yml
index 6293ce8e139..d84b3cbdd31 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/conda.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/conda.yml
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ jobs:
           arr=($(conda search --override-channels -c dask/label/dev dask-core | tail -n 1))
 
           # extract dask-core pre-release version / build
-          export DASK_VERSION=${arr[1]}
-          export DASK_BUILD=${arr[2]}
+          export DASK_CORE_VERSION=${arr[1]}
 
           # distributed pre-release build
           conda mambabuild continuous_integration/recipes/distributed \
diff --git a/continuous_integration/recipes/dask/meta.yaml b/continuous_integration/recipes/dask/meta.yaml
index f7e1122e5b6..b7709b1c405 100644
--- a/continuous_integration/recipes/dask/meta.yaml
+++ b/continuous_integration/recipes/dask/meta.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{% set version = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', '0.0.0.dev') + environ.get('VERSION_SUFFIX', '') %}
-{% set dask_version = environ.get('DASK_VERSION', '0.0.0.dev') %}
-{% set dask_build = environ.get('DASK_BUILD', '') %}
-{% set py_version=environ.get('CONDA_PY', 36) %}
+{% set major_minor_patch = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', '0.0.0.dev').split('.') %}
+{% set new_patch = major_minor_patch[2] | int + 1 %}
+{% set version = (major_minor_patch[:2] + [new_patch]) | join('.') + environ.get('VERSION_SUFFIX', '') %}
+{% set dask_version = environ.get('DASK_CORE_VERSION', '0.0.0.dev') %}
 
 
 package:
diff --git a/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml b/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
index fb7fa9303de..94213109128 100644
--- a/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
+++ b/continuous_integration/recipes/distributed/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-{% set version = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', '0.0.0.dev') + environ.get('VERSION_SUFFIX', '') %}
-{% set dask_version = environ.get('DASK_VERSION', '0.0.0.dev') %}
-{% set dask_build = environ.get('DASK_BUILD', '') %}
+{% set major_minor_patch = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_TAG', '0.0.0.dev').split('.') %}
+{% set new_patch = major_minor_patch[2] | int + 1 %}
+{% set version = (major_minor_patch[:2] + [new_patch]) | join('.') + environ.get('VERSION_SUFFIX', '') %}
+{% set dask_version = environ.get('DASK_CORE_VERSION', '0.0.0.dev') %}
 
 
 package: