diff --git a/tools/branch.sh b/tools/branch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..ec07d02e32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/branch.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+RELEASE=$1
+
+svn copy -m "Branching for the $RELEASE release" http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers http://svn.openlayers.org/branches/openlayers/$RELEASE
diff --git a/tools/rc.sh b/tools/rc.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..73b1835abb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/rc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+RELEASE=$1
+RC=$2
+
+svn co http://svn.openlayers.org/branches/openlayers/$RELEASE
+cd $RELEASE
+sed -i -e "s/OpenLayers.VERSION_NUMBER=.*/OpenLayers.VERSION_NUMBER=\"Release $1-$2\";/" lib/OpenLayers.js 
+sed -i -e "s/VERSION_NUMBER: .*,/VERSION_NUMBER: \"Release $1-$2\",/" lib/OpenLayers/SingleFile.js
+svn diff;
+sleep 10;
+svn ci -m "Updating version numbers for $1-$2".
+svn cp -m "Tagging the $1-$2 release." http://svn.openlayers.org/branches/openlayers/$1 http://svn.openlayers.org/tags/openlayers/release-$1-$2
diff --git a/tools/release.sh b/tools/release.sh
index 307b3f46a7..85124e8790 100755
--- a/tools/release.sh
+++ b/tools/release.sh
@@ -24,17 +24,17 @@ mkdir doc/devdocs
 mkdir doc/apidocs
 rm tools/*.pyc
 
-mkdir /www/openlayers/htdocs/api/$VERSION
-cp OpenLayers.js /www/openlayers/htdocs/api/$VERSION
-cp -a img/ /www/openlayers/htdocs/api/$VERSION
-cp -a theme/ /www/openlayers/htdocs/api/$VERSION
+mkdir /osgeo/openlayers/docs/api/$VERSION
+cp OpenLayers.js /osgeo/openlayers/docs/api/$VERSION
+cp -a img/ /osgeo/openlayers/docs/api/$VERSION
+cp -a theme/ /osgeo/openlayers/docs/api/$VERSION
 
 cd ..
 
-~/nd/NaturalDocs -i OpenLayers-$VERSION/lib -o HTML OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc/devdocs -p OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc_config -s Small OL
-~/nd/NaturalDocs -i OpenLayers-$VERSION/lib -o HTML OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc/apidocs -p OpenLayers-$VERSION/apidoc_config -s Small OL
+naturaldocs -i OpenLayers-$VERSION/lib -o HTML OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc/devdocs -p OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc_config -s Small OL
+naturaldocs -i OpenLayers-$VERSION/lib -o HTML OpenLayers-$VERSION/doc/apidocs -p OpenLayers-$VERSION/apidoc_config -s Small OL
 
 tar cvfz OpenLayers-$VERSION.tar.gz OpenLayers-$VERSION/
 zip -9r OpenLayers-$VERSION.zip OpenLayers-$VERSION/
 
-cp OpenLayers-$VERSION.* /www/openlayers/htdocs/download 
+cp OpenLayers-$VERSION.* /osgeo/openlayers/docs/download