diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1e967a8d6c..d01ae56652 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -61,12 +61,13 @@
 			</url>
 		</snapshotRepository>
 		<site>
-			<id>sourceforge.net</id>
-			<name>Acegi Website at Sourceforge</name>
-            <!--<url>file:///Users/luke/acegisite/</url>-->
-            <url>
-				scp://shell.sourceforge.net/home/groups/a/ac/acegisecurity/htdocs/maven2
-			</url>
+			<id>local</id>
+			<name>Local Site Directory</name>
+            <!--
+            This variable is set by the build release script. You can also set it on the command line if
+            you are running maven directly. e.g. mvn site -DsiteDirectory=file:///home/joe/mysite
+            -->
+            <url>${siteDirectory}</url>
         </site>
 	</distributionManagement>
 
@@ -431,7 +432,9 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-			</plugin>
+                <!-- Version 2.1 reports 100% coverage for everything. Nice but not very practical -->
+                <version>2.0</version>
+            </plugin>
 
             <plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
diff --git a/releasebuild.sh b/releasebuild.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42cd12d71e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasebuild.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+# This script must be run from the project root directory
+
+# Edit this release number before running. It is used to check jar names etc.
+RELEASE_VERSION=1.0.5-SNAPSHOT
+
+PROJ_DIR=`pwd`;
+RELEASE_DIR=$PROJ_DIR/release
+SITE_DIR=$RELEASE_DIR/site
+
+echo "** Project directory is $PROJ_DIR"
+
+SVN_REV=`svn info $PROJ_DIR | grep Revision | sed "s/Revision: //"`
+
+echo "** Building from revision $SVN_REV"
+
+
+if [[ -e $RELEASE_DIR ]]
+then
+   rm -Rf $RELEASE_DIR
+fi
+
+mkdir $RELEASE_DIR
+mkdir $SITE_DIR
+
+# run maven to generate jars
+
+mvn clean install -DcreateChecksum=true
+
+if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
+then
+  echo "mvn install failed"
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+echo "** Generating site in $SITE_DIR".
+
+mvn site docbkx:generate-html docbkx:generate-pdf site:deploy -DsiteDirectory=file://${SITE_DIR}
+
+if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]
+then
+  echo "mvn site generation failed"
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+
+# Assemble the required jar files
+
+find . -name "*${RELEASE_VERSION}.jar" | grep -v WEB-INF | xargs -J % -n 1  cp % $RELEASE_DIR
+find . -name "*${RELEASE_VERSION}.war" | xargs -J % -n 1  cp % $RELEASE_DIR
+
+# Should be 9 archives - core, core-tiger, the adapters (cas, jboss, resin, jetty, catalina), tutorial and contacts wars.
+
+pushd $RELEASE_DIR
+
+NUM_JARS=`ls *.jar *.war | wc -l`
+
+if [ "$NUM_JARS" -ne 9 ]
+then
+  echo "Expected 9 Jar files but found $NUM_JARS."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Create the signatures
+
+for jar in $(ls *.jar *.war); do
+  openssl sha1 < $jar > $jar.sha1
+  openssl md5 < $jar > $jar.md5
+done
+
+popd
+
+