diff --git a/repo/spec b/repo/spec
index 506b33936d..2bbd4dd916 160000
--- a/repo/spec
+++ b/repo/spec
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 506b33936d89080a683fa8a26837f2a23b23e5e2
+Subproject commit 2bbd4dd916519f567e5c648b24c0b5ca6fc8a183
diff --git a/src/ocrd_utils/config.py b/src/ocrd_utils/config.py
index b3a3e9537d..d0955a8dcf 100644
--- a/src/ocrd_utils/config.py
+++ b/src/ocrd_utils/config.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ def raw_value(self, name):
     description="If set, then the CPU profile is written to this file for later peruse with a analysis tools like snakeviz")
 
 config.add("OCRD_DOWNLOAD_RETRIES",
-    description="Number of times to retry failed attempts for downloads of workspace files.",
+    description="Number of times to retry failed attempts for downloads of resource or workspace files.",
     validator=int,
     parser=int)
 
diff --git a/tests/cli/test_bashlib.py b/tests/cli/test_bashlib.py
index 1807b1f47d..c4b2fd7da7 100644
--- a/tests/cli/test_bashlib.py
+++ b/tests/cli/test_bashlib.py
@@ -104,10 +104,8 @@ def test_bashlib_minversion(self):
         exit_code, out, err = self.invoke_bash(
             "source $(ocrd bashlib filename) && ocrd__minversion 2.29.0")
         assert exit_code == 0
-        (major, minor, patch) = map(int, str(VERSION).split('.'))
-        version = "%d.%d.%d" % (major, minor + 1, patch)
         exit_code, out, err = self.invoke_bash(
-            "source $(ocrd bashlib filename) && ocrd__minversion " + version)
+            "source $(ocrd bashlib filename) && ocrd__minversion " + VERSION)
         assert exit_code > 0
         assert "ERROR: ocrd/core is too old" in err
 
diff --git a/tests/validator/test_ocrd_tool_validator.py b/tests/validator/test_ocrd_tool_validator.py
index 8612353890..2d035757ed 100644
--- a/tests/validator/test_ocrd_tool_validator.py
+++ b/tests/validator/test_ocrd_tool_validator.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def setUp(self):
 
     def test_smoke(self):
         report = OcrdToolValidator.validate(self.ocrd_tool)
-        self.assertTrue(report.is_valid, report)
+        self.assertTrue(report.is_valid, str(report.errors))
 
     def test_additional_props(self):
         self.ocrd_tool['not-allowed'] = 'YUP'
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def test_file_param_ok(self):
         ocrd_tool = json.loads(skeleton)
         ocrd_tool['tools']['ocrd-xyz']['parameters'] = {"file-param": {"description": "...", "type": "string", "content-type": 'application/rdf+xml'}}
         report = OcrdToolValidator.validate(ocrd_tool)
-        self.assertTrue(report.is_valid, report)
+        self.assertTrue(report.is_valid, str(report.errors))
 
     # Not restricted anymore since spec 3.3.0
     #  def test_file_param_bad_content_types(self):