diff --git a/ci_scripts/remote_python_packaging.sh b/ci_scripts/remote_python_packaging.sh
index 9f09a3a37..7a2db322a 100755
--- a/ci_scripts/remote_python_packaging.sh
+++ b/ci_scripts/remote_python_packaging.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,6 @@ echo "--- Running $CIRCLE_JOB remotely"
 
 ssh -t $SSHTARGET bash "$BUILDDIR/exec_docker_run"
 mkdir -p workspace 
-rsync -avz "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR/python/.docker-tox/wheelhouse/*manylinux1*" workspace/
+rsync -avz "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR/python/.docker-tox/wheelhouse/*manylinux1*" workspace/wheelhouse/
 rsync -avz "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR/python/.docker-tox/dist/*" workspace/wheelhouse/
 rsync -avz "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR/python/doc/_build/" workspace/py-docs
diff --git a/python/CHANGELOG b/python/CHANGELOG
index 7a0c73b2a..859af370a 100644
--- a/python/CHANGELOG
+++ b/python/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-0.600.1
+0.700.0
 ---------
 
+- lots of new Python APIs
+
+- use rust core-beta23 
+
 - introduce automatic versioning via setuptools_scm, 
   based on py-X.Y.Z tags 
 
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 7d401b2a5..27f4284e3 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ def main():
             "root": "..",
             "relative_to": __file__,
             'tag_regex': r'^(?P<prefix>py-)?(?P<version>[^\+]+)(?P<suffix>.*)?$',
+            'git_describe_command': "git describe --dirty --tags --long --match py-*.*",
         },
         description='Python bindings for the Delta Chat Core library using CFFI against the Rust-implemented libdeltachat',
         long_description=long_description,