diff --git a/build.properties b/build.properties
index c26c896be..ea1df0348 100644
--- a/build.properties
+++ b/build.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Name
 project.name = CakePHP
 
+# Git stuff
+git.remote = 
+
 # Directories
 build.dir = build
 dist.dir = dist
+
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 4a274ff5b..ff682d059 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@
 			<channel>pear.php.net</channel>
 			<description>CakePHP </description>
 			<lead user="mark_story" name="Mark Story" email="mark@mark-story.com" />
+			<lead user="lorenzo" name="José Lorenzo Rodríguez" email="jose.zap@gmail.com" />
+			<lead user="PhpNut" name="Larry Masters" email="phpnut@cakephp.org" />
 			<license>MIT License</license>
 			<version release="${pear.version}" api="${pear.version}" />
 			<stability release="${pear.stability}" api="${pear.stability}" />
@@ -117,24 +119,43 @@
 		<move file="${build.dir}/${project.name}-${version}/${project.name}-${pear.version}.tgz" todir="${dist.dir}" />
 	</target>
 
-	<!-- top level easy to type target -->
-	<target name="build" depends="generate-package" />
-
-
 	<!--
 		Bump the version number and commit that.
 	-->
 	<target name="next-version" depends="prepare">
 		<echo msg="Incrementing version." />
 		<propertyprompt propertyName="release_version" defaultValue="${version}" promptText="Enter version to be released (without -DEV)"/>
-		<echo msg="New version will be ${release_version}" />
 		<echo msg="$file = file_get_contents('./lib/Cake/VERSION.txt'); $file = str_replace('${version}', '${release_version}', $file); file_put_contents('./lib/Cake/VERSION.txt', $file);" />
 		<exec executable="php">
 			<arg value="-r" />
 			<arg value="$file = file_get_contents('./lib/Cake/VERSION.txt'); $file = str_replace('${version}', '${release_version}', $file); file_put_contents('./lib/Cake/VERSION.txt', $file);" />
 		</exec>
+		<echo msg="Version number updated." />
+	</target>
 
+	<target name="release-commit" depends="prepare,next-version">
+		<echo msg="Creating new release commit" />
+		<exec command="git add ./lib/Cake/VERSION.txt" />
+		<exec command="git commit -m 'Update version number to ${release_version}'" />
+		<exec command="git tag -a ${release_version} -m 'CakePHP ${release_version}'" />
+
+		<propertyprompt propertyName="shipit" defaultValue="n" promptText="Ship the new commit and tag?" />
+		<condition property="noshipit" value="1">
+			<not>
+				<equals arg1="y" arg2="${shipit}" casesensitive="false" />
+			</not>
+		</condition>
+		<fail if="noshipit" msg="You said not to ship it." />
+
+		<exec command="git push ${git.remote}" />
+		<exec command="git push --tags ${git.remote}" />
+		<echo msg="Pushed commit and tag." />
 	</target>
 
 
+	<!-- top level easy to type targets -->
+	<target name="build" depends="generate-package" />
+	<target name="release" depends="release-commit,build" />
+
+
 </project>