diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 2165f8f9b6a830a9d8dd3d2857d7fb86eba1d250..e01025862f79350522cba47477d9bb6c51729e12 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.0.4
+2.0.5
diff --git a/containers/release/Dockerfile.in b/containers/release/Dockerfile.in
index f26cdd773554ee74e1fb579bc31ba184b6009f06..8134a34de690fb49ac574436621a4cd8279b0875 100644
--- a/containers/release/Dockerfile.in
+++ b/containers/release/Dockerfile.in
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ ENV DOCKERFILE_DISTRO=ubuntu          \
     DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive    \
 @ENV@
 
+## TODO: move this to upstream, as we should have ssh available in
+## any dev container
+RUN apt-get -yqq update \
+ && apt-get -yqq install --no-install-recommends \
+        openssh-client \
+ && locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
 ## Copy over files from builder
 COPY --from=builder /opt/spack-environment /opt/spack-environment
 COPY --from=builder /opt/software /opt/software