diff --git a/dev/release/create-tag.sh b/dev/release/create-tag.sh
index 21c4d3de980..22ef1736239 100755
--- a/dev/release/create-tag.sh
+++ b/dev/release/create-tag.sh
@@ -88,19 +88,7 @@ printf "$NEXT_VERSION"
 # options available at https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-gpg-plugin/sign-mojo.html
 GPG_OPTS="-Dgpg.homedir=$GNUPGHOME -Dgpg.keyname=$GPG_KEY -Dgpg.passphrase=$GPG_PASSPHRASE"
 
-printf "\n -Dgpg.homedir=$GNUPGHOME -Dgpg.keyname=$GPG_KEY -Dgpg.passphrase=$GPG_PASSPHRASE \n"
-
-# Tag release version before `mvn release:prepare`
-# tag python build
-# PySpark version info we use dev0 instead of SNAPSHOT to be closer
-# to PEP440.
-# sed -i".tmp" 's/__version__ = .*$/__version__ = "'"$NEXT_VERSION.dev0"'"/' python/systemds/version.py
-
-# change tags in docs
-# docs/_config.yml
-# update SYSTEMDS_VERSION
-# sed -i 's/SYSTEMDS_VERSION:.*$/SYSTEMDS_VERSION: '"$RELEASE_VERSION"'/g' docs/_config.yml
-# and run docs/updateAPI.sh to update version in api docs
+printf "\n -Dgpg.homedir=$GNUPGHOME -Dgpg.keyname=$GPG_KEY \n"
 
 
 # NOTE:
@@ -130,9 +118,3 @@ printf "\n #### Executing command: #### \n"
 printf "\n $(bold $(greencolor $CMD)) \n\n"
 
 $CMD
-
-# tag snapshot version after `mvn release:prepare`
-
-# Change docs to dev snapshot tag
-# sed -i".tmp1" 's/SYSTEMDS_VERSION:.*$/SYSTEMDS_VERSION: '"$NEXT_VERSION"'/g' docs/_config.yml
-# and run docs/updateAPI.sh to update version in api docs
diff --git a/dev/release/release-build.sh b/dev/release/release-build.sh
index ba7b8972b1d..eb46deb069e 100755
--- a/dev/release/release-build.sh
+++ b/dev/release/release-build.sh
@@ -97,41 +97,6 @@ cat <<EOF >../tmp-settings.xml
 </settings>
 EOF
 
-if [[ "$1" == "publish-snapshot" ]]; then
-  
-  CMD="mvn --settings ../tmp-settings.xml deploy -DskipTests -Dmaven.deploy.skip=${dry_run} \
-    -Daether.checksums.algorithms=SHA-512 \
-    ${GPG_OPTS}"
-  # -DaltSnapshotDeploymentRepository=github::default::https://maven.pkg.github.com/j143/systemds \
-  printf "\n #### Executing command: #### \n"
-  printf "\n $(bold $(greencolor $CMD)) \n\n"
-
-  $CMD
-
-fi
-
-
-
-if [[ "$1" == "publish-staging" ]]; then
-
-  mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=${PACKAGE_VERSION}
-
-  CMD="mvn --settings ../tmp-settings.xml clean -Pdistribution deploy \
-    -DskiptTests -Dmaven.deploy.skip=${dry_run} \
-    -Daether.checksums.algorithms=SHA-512 \
-    ${GPG_OPTS}"
-
-  printf "\n #### Executing command: #### \n"
-  printf "\n $(bold $(greencolor $CMD)) \n\n"
-
-  $CMD  
-fi
-
-# if [[ -z "$GPG_KEY" ]]; then
-#   echo "The environment variable $GPG_KEY is not set."
-# fi
-
-# GPG="gpg -u $GPG_KEY --no-tty --batch --pinentry-mode loopback"
 
 # Publishing to Sonatype repo, details:
 NEXUS_ROOT=https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging