diff --git a/tools/getnextnodeversion.py b/tools/getnextnodeversion.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ee771e2c49c3..00000000000000
--- a/tools/getnextnodeversion.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-import os,re
-
-node_version_h = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'src',
-    'node_version.h')
-
-f = open(node_version_h)
-
-for line in f:
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION', line):
-    major = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION', line):
-    minor = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION', line):
-    patch = int(line.split()[2]) + 1
-
-print '%(major)s.%(minor)s.%(patch)s'% locals()
diff --git a/tools/getprevnodeversion.py b/tools/getprevnodeversion.py
deleted file mode 100644
index ff0d87d38cc26b..00000000000000
--- a/tools/getprevnodeversion.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-import os,re
-
-node_version_h = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'src',
-    'node_version.h')
-
-f = open(node_version_h)
-
-for line in f:
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION', line):
-    major = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION', line):
-    minor = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION', line):
-    patch = int(line.split()[2]) - 1
-
-print '%(major)s.%(minor)s.%(patch)s'% locals()
diff --git a/tools/getstability.py b/tools/getstability.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fe51bf2db971c..00000000000000
--- a/tools/getstability.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import os,re
-
-node_version_h = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'src',
-    'node_version.h')
-
-f = open(node_version_h)
-
-for line in f:
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION', line):
-    major = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_MINOR_VERSION', line):
-    minor = line.split()[2]
-  if re.match('#define NODE_PATCH_VERSION', line):
-    patch = line.split()[2]
-
-if int(minor) % 2 == 0:
-  print 'stable'
-else:
-  print 'unstable'
diff --git a/tools/node-release-post-build.sh b/tools/node-release-post-build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5b1a19ed707cc9..00000000000000
--- a/tools/node-release-post-build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-## This is to be used once jenkins has finished building the release
-
-set -e
-
-if [[ ! -e ../node-website/Makefile ]];
-then
-  echo "node-website must be checked out one level up"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-stability="$(python tools/getstability.py)"
-NODE_STABC="$(tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<< ${stability:0:1})${stability:1}"
-NODE_STABL="$stability"
-
-echo "Building for $stability"
-
-scp tj@nodejs.org:archive/node/tmp/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/SHASUM* .
-FILES="SHASUMS SHASUMS256"
-for i in $FILES ; do gpg -s $i.txt; gpg --clearsign $i.txt; done
-scp SHASUM* tj@nodejs.org:archive/node/tmp/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/
- 
-ssh nodejs.org mkdir -p "dist/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/{x64,docs}"
-ssh nodejs.org ln -s ../dist/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/docs docs/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)
-
-ssh root@nodejs.org mv /home/tj/archive/node/tmp/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/* /home/node/dist/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)/
-ssh root@nodejs.org chown -R node:other /home/node/dist/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)
-
-# tag the release
-# should be the same key used to sign the shasums
-git tag -sm "$(bash tools/changelog-head.sh)" v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)
- 
-# push to github
-git push git@github.com:joyent/node v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)-release --tags 
-
-# blog post and email
-make email.md
-( echo ""
-  echo "Shasums:"
-  echo '```'
-  cat SHASUMS.txt.asc
-  echo '```' ) >> email.md
-( echo -n "date: "
-  date
-  echo -n "version: "
-  python tools/getnodeversion.py
-  echo "category: release"
-  echo "title: Node v"$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)" ($NODE_STABC)"
-  echo "slug: node-v"$(python tools/getnodeversion.py | sed 's|\.|-|g')"-$NODE_STABL"
-  echo ""
-  cat email.md ) > ../node-website/doc/blog/release/v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py).md
-
-if [ "$stability" = "stable" ];
-then
-  ## this needs to happen here because the website depends on the current node
-  ## node version
-  ## this will get the api docs in the right place
-  make website-upload
-  BRANCH="v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py | sed -E 's#\.[0-9]+$##')"
-  echo $(python tools/getnodeversion.py) > ../node-website/STABLE
-else
-  BRANCH="master"
-fi
-
-echo "Merging back into $BRANCH"
-
-# merge back into mainline stable branch
-git checkout $BRANCH
-git merge --no-ff v$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)-release
- 
-# change the version number, set isrelease = 0
-## TODO automagic.
-vim src/node_version.h
-git commit -am "Now working on "$(python tools/getnodeversion.py)
-
-git push git@github.com:joyent/node $BRANCH
-
-echo "Now go do the website stuff"