diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c64d80db..68991908 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Unreleased
+
 ## 1.20.5 - 2022-02-14
 ### Additions
 - [furaffinity] add `layout` option ([#2277](https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/2277))
diff --git a/gallery_dl/version.py b/gallery_dl/version.py
index 4bc9b576..80ce3b46 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/version.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/version.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 # published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
-__version__ = "1.20.5"
+__version__ = "1.20.6-dev"
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index a08cb5d4..afac268c 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,14 @@ build-linux() {
     cd "${ROOTDIR}"
     echo Building Linux executable
 
-    make executable
+    VENV_PATH="/tmp/venv"
+    VENV_PYTHON="${VENV_PATH}/bin/python"
+
+    rm -r "${VENV_PATH}"
+    virtualenv "${VENV_PATH}"
+
+    $VENV_PYTHON -m pip install requests requests[socks] yt-dlp pyinstaller
+    $VENV_PYTHON ./scripts/pyinstaller.py
 }
 
 build-windows() {