diff --git a/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst b/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
index c7ce230204..df6b2a44df 100644
--- a/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
+++ b/docs/src/developers_guide/release.rst
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ To do this perform the following steps.
 Create a conda environment with the appropriate conda packages to build the
 source distribution (``sdist``) and pure Python wheel (``bdist_wheel``)::
 
-    > conda create -n iris-pypi -c conda-forge --yes build twine
+    > conda create -n iris-pypi -c conda-forge --yes python-build twine
     > . activate iris-pypi
 
 Checkout the appropriate Iris ``<release>`` tag from the appropriate ``<repo>``.