diff --git a/IPython/__init__.py b/IPython/__init__.py
index f49c9dd..0252940 100644
--- a/IPython/__init__.py
+++ b/IPython/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # encoding: utf-8
 """
-IPython.
+IPython: tools for interactive and parallel computing in Python.
 
-IPython is a set of tools for interactive and exploratory computing in Python.
+http://ipython.org
 """
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (c) 2008-2010, IPython Development Team.
+#  Copyright (c) 2008-2011, IPython Development Team.
 #  Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Fernando Perez <fernando.perez@colorado.edu>
 #  Copyright (c) 2001, Janko Hauser <jhauser@zscout.de>
 #  Copyright (c) 2001, Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@caltech.edu>
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import sys
 if sys.version[0:3] < '2.6':
     raise ImportError('Python Version 2.6 or above is required for IPython.')
 
-
 # Make it easy to import extensions - they are always directly on pythonpath.
 # Therefore, non-IPython modules can be added to extensions directory.
 # This should probably be in ipapp.py.
diff --git a/IPython/core/release.py b/IPython/core/release.py
index 02d1f4a..edc33d3 100644
--- a/IPython/core/release.py
+++ b/IPython/core/release.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 """Release data for the IPython project."""
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-#  Copyright (c) 2008-2010, IPython Development Team.
+#  Copyright (c) 2008-2011, IPython Development Team.
 #  Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Fernando Perez <fernando.perez@colorado.edu>
 #  Copyright (c) 2001, Janko Hauser <jhauser@zscout.de>
 #  Copyright (c) 2001, Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@caltech.edu>
diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/version0.11.txt b/docs/source/whatsnew/version0.11.txt
index 1d732d6..981eae9 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/version0.11.txt
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/version0.11.txt
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ series.  A huge diff and ~2200 commits make up this cycle::
     288019
 
     git log $(git merge-base 0.10.2 HEAD)..HEAD --oneline | wc -l
-    2198
+    2200
 
 Since our move to github, 511 issues were closed, 226 of which were pull
 requests and 285 regular issues (:ref:`a full list with links
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ the new classes and APIs, but that we simply haven't had time for.  Any user
 who is interested in one of these is encouraged to help us by porting it and
 submitting a pull request on our `development site`_.
 
-.. _development site:: http://github.com/ipython/ipython
+.. _development site: http://github.com/ipython/ipython
 
 Currently, the quarantine directory contains::
 
diff --git a/tools/build_release b/tools/build_release
index 1a9c830..6077c30 100755
--- a/tools/build_release
+++ b/tools/build_release
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ ipdir = get_ipdir()
 cd(ipdir)
 
 # Load release info
-execfile(pjoin('IPython','core','release.py'))
+execfile(pjoin('IPython', 'core', 'release.py'))
 
 # Check that everything compiles
 compile_tree()
 
 # Cleanup
-for d in ['build','dist',pjoin('docs','build'),pjoin('docs','dist'),
-          pjoin('docs','source','api','generated')]:
+for d in ['build', 'dist', pjoin('docs', 'build'), pjoin('docs', 'dist'),
+          pjoin('docs', 'source', 'api', 'generated')]:
     if os.path.isdir(d):
         remove_tree(d)
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ for d in ['build','dist',pjoin('docs','build'),pjoin('docs','dist'),
 sh('./setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip')
 
 # Build eggs
-sh('python2.6 ./setupegg.py bdist_egg')
+sh('python ./setupegg.py bdist_egg')
 
 # Call the windows build separately, so that the extra Windows scripts don't
 # get pulled into Unix builds (setup.py has code which checks for