diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8083034ddf..4277d03623 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,10 +72,10 @@ Rancher UI supports localization via translations files. You can swap translatio
 If you want to customize the UI, re-packaging all of Rancher to distribute the UI is possible but not terribly convenient. Instead you can change Cattle to load the UI source from a remote web server:
 
 - Build with `./scripts/build-static -l -c 'your-server.com'`
-- Upload `./dist/static/latest2` so that it's available at https://your-server.com/latest2
+- Upload `./dist/static/release-2.9` so that it's available at https://your-server.com/release-2.9
   - It must be available over HTTPS.
-  - You can rename the "latest2" part with the `-v` flag
-- Change the value of https://your-rancher/v3/settings/ui-index to the same `https://your-server.com/latest2` URL
+  - You can rename the "release-2.9" part with the `-v` flag
+- Change the value of https://your-rancher/v3/settings/ui-index to the same `https://your-server.com/release-2.9` URL
 
 ### Running Tests
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fcde74e3ce..a4f8b2ee2b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ui",
-  "version": "master-dev",
+  "version": "2.9-dev",
   "private": true,
   "repository": "https://github.com/rancher/ui",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
@@ -141,4 +141,4 @@
       "lib/shared"
     ]
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/scripts/build-static b/scripts/build-static
index b62cb83f7e..60fee32c91 100755
--- a/scripts/build-static
+++ b/scripts/build-static
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ if [[ "${FORCE_VERSION}" != "" ]]; then
   VERSION=${FORCE_VERSION}
 else
   if [[ $LATEST -eq 1 ]]; then
-    VERSION="latest2"
+    VERSION="release-2.9"
   elif [[ "${CI_BRANCH}" != "" ]]; then
     VERSION=${CI_BRANCH}
   else