diff --git a/scripts/make-tarball.sh b/scripts/make-tarball.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 69587b2dd1d..00000000000
--- a/scripts/make-tarball.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-###########################################################################
-#    make-tarball.sh
-#    ---------------------
-#    Date                 : October 2011
-#    Copyright            : (C) 2011 by Tim Sutton
-#    Email                : tim at kartoza dot com
-###########################################################################
-#                                                                         #
-#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  #
-#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  #
-#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     #
-#   (at your option) any later version.                                   #
-#                                                                         #
-###########################################################################
-
-
-# A simple script to create a release tarball
-#
-#  Tim Sutton, October 2011
-
-TAG_OR_BRANCH="master"
-VERSION="1.8.0-dev"
-
-git archive --format=tar --prefix=qgis-${VERSION}/ ${TAG_OR_BRANCH=} | \
-   bzip2 > /tmp/qgis-${VERSION}.tar.bz2
-md5sum /tmp/qgis-${VERSION}.tar.bz2 > \
-    /tmp/qgis-${VERSION}.tar.bz2.md5
diff --git a/scripts/release.pl b/scripts/release.pl
index 5775b040de8..99959c8619d 100755
--- a/scripts/release.pl
+++ b/scripts/release.pl
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ run( "git tag $ltrtag -m 'Long term release $release'", "ltr tag failed" ) if $d
 
 print "Producing archive...\n";
 run( "git archive --format tar --prefix=qgis-$version/ $reltag | bzip2 -c >qgis-$version.tar.bz2", "git archive failed" );
-run( "md5sum qgis-$version.tar.bz2 >qgis-$version.tar.bz2.md5", "md5sum failed" );
+run( "sha256sum qgis-$version.tar.bz2 >qgis-$version.tar.bz2.sha256", "sha256sum failed" );
 
 my @topush;
 unless( $dopoint ) {