diff --git a/publish.sh b/publish.sh
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--- a/publish.sh
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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-
-VERSION=$(git describe | awk '{split($0,a,"-"); print(a[1] "-" a[3]);}')
-
-echo "Building version $VERSION"
-
-GO_VERSION_FLAG="-X \"github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/build.rawVersion=$VERSION\""
-
-docker build -t rivinebuilder .
-docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/go/src/github.com/threefoldtech/rivine --entrypoint sh rivinebuilder -c "GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG'  -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-linux-amd64/rivined github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivined && GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG'  -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-linux-amd64/rivinec github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivinec"
-docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/go/src/github.com/threefoldtech/rivine --entrypoint sh rivinebuilder -c "GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG' -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-windows-amd64/rivined.exe github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivined && GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG' -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-windows-amd64/rivinec.exe github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivinec"
-docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/go/src/github.com/threefoldtech/rivine --entrypoint sh rivinebuilder -c "GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG' -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-darwin-amd64/rivined github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivined && GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build -ldflags '-s $GO_VERSION_FLAG' -v -o dist/rivine-$VERSION-darwin-amd64/rivinec github.com/threefoldtech/rivine/cmd/rivinec"
-
-docker build -t rivine/rivine:"$VERSION" -f DockerfileMinimal --build-arg binaries_location=dist/rivine-"$VERSION"-linux-amd64 .
-
-docker push rivine/rivine:"$VERSION"
-
-pushd dist
-
-tar -c -z -f rivine-"$VERSION"-linux-amd64.tar.gz rivine-"$VERSION"-linux-amd64
-zip rivine-"$VERSION"-windows-amd64.zip rivine-"$VERSION"-windows-amd64/*
-zip rivine-"$VERSION"-darwin-amd64.zip rivine-"$VERSION"-darwin-amd64/*
-
-popd dist
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-set -e
-
-# TODO:
-#  + add validation...
-#  + integrate gitian (https://gitian.org/)?
-
-# version is supplied as argument
-package="github.com/threefoldtech/rivine"
-
-
-version="$(git describe | cut -d '-' -f 1)"
-commit="$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
-if [ "$commit" == "$(git rev-list -n 1 $version | cut -c1-8)" ]
-then
-	full_version="$version"
-else
-	full_version="${version}-${commit}"
-fi
-
-for os in darwin linux windows; do
-	echo Packaging ${os}...
-	# create workspace
-	folder="release/rivine-${version}-${os}-amd64"
-	rm -rf "$folder"
-	mkdir -p "$folder"
-	# compile and sign binaries
-	for pkg in cmd/rivinec cmd/rivined; do
-		bin=$pkg
-		if [ "$os" == "windows" ]; then
-			bin=${pkg}.exe
-		fi
-		GOOS=${os} go build -a \
-			-ldflags="-X ${package}/build.rawVersion=${full_version} -s -w" \
-			-o "${folder}/${bin}" "./${pkg}"
-
-	done
-	# add other artifacts
-	cp -r doc LICENSE README.md "$folder"
-	# zip
-	(
-		zip -rq "release/rivine-${version}-${os}-amd64.zip" \
-			"release/rivine-${version}-${os}-amd64"
-	)
-done
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