diff --git a/.drone.star b/.drone.star
index 50abcfb13b..ac89022b02 100644
--- a/.drone.star
+++ b/.drone.star
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ def buildAndPublishDocker():
         "commands": [
           "TZ=Europe/Berlin go run tools/create-artifacts/main.go -dev -commit ${DRONE_COMMIT} -goversion `go version | awk '{print $$3}'`",
           "curl --fail -X MKCOL 'https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/' -k -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD}",
-          "curl --fail -X MKCOL 'https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`' -k -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD}",
-          "curl --fail -X MKCOL 'https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`/${DRONE_COMMIT}' -k -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD}",
-          "for i in $(ls /drone/src/dist);do curl --fail -X PUT -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD} https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`/${DRONE_COMMIT}/$${i} --data-binary @./dist/$${i} ; done",
+          "curl --fail -X MKCOL 'https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/'$(date +%Y-%m-%d) -k -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD}",
+          "curl --fail -X MKCOL 'https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/'$(date +%Y-%m-%d)'/${DRONE_COMMIT}' -k -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD}",
+          "for i in $(ls /drone/src/dist);do curl --fail -X PUT -u $${USERNAME}:$${PASSWORD} https://cernbox.cern.ch/cernbox/desktop/remote.php/webdav/eos/project/r/reva/www/daily/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)/${DRONE_COMMIT}/$${i} --data-binary @./dist/$${i} ; done",
         ],
       },
       licenseScanStep(),
diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/fix-daily-builds.md b/changelog/unreleased/fix-daily-builds.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..385f61dacf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/fix-daily-builds.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Bugfix: Drone CI - patch the 'store-dev-release' job to fix malformed requests
+
+Replace the backquotes that were used for the date component of the URL with
+the POSIX-confirmant command substitution '$()'.
+
+https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/1815