diff --git a/project/RELEASE-PROCESS.md b/project/RELEASE-PROCESS.md
index ffa18077f..040a2602b 100644
--- a/project/RELEASE-PROCESS.md
+++ b/project/RELEASE-PROCESS.md
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 Building a Compose release
 ==========================
 
+## Prerequisites
+
+The release scripts require the following tools installed on the host:
+
+* https://hub.github.com/
+* https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
+* http://pandoc.org/
+
 ## To get started with a new release
 
 Create a branch, update version, and add release notes by running `make-branch`
@@ -40,10 +48,10 @@ As part of this script you'll be asked to:
 
 ## To release a version (whether RC or stable)
 
-Check out the bump branch and run the `build-binary` script
+Check out the bump branch and run the `build-binaries` script
 
         git checkout bump-$VERSION
-        ./script/release/build-binary
+        ./script/release/build-binaries
 
 When prompted build the non-linux binaries and test them.
 
diff --git a/script/release/cherry-pick-pr b/script/release/cherry-pick-pr
index 604600872..f4a5a7406 100755
--- a/script/release/cherry-pick-pr
+++ b/script/release/cherry-pick-pr
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ EOM
 
 if [ -z "$(command -v hub 2> /dev/null)" ]; then
     >&2 echo "$0 requires https://hub.github.com/."
-    >&2 echo "Please install it and ake sure it is available on your \$PATH."
+    >&2 echo "Please install it and make sure it is available on your \$PATH."
     exit 2
 fi
 
diff --git a/script/release/push-release b/script/release/push-release
index 039436da0..9229f0934 100755
--- a/script/release/push-release
+++ b/script/release/push-release
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ GITHUB_REPO=git@github.com:$REPO
 sha=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
 url=$API/$REPO/statuses/$sha
 build_status=$(curl -s $url | jq -r '.[0].state')
-if [[ "$build_status" != "success" ]]; then
+if [ -n "$SKIP_BUILD_CHECK" ]; then
+    echo "Skipping build status check..."
+elif [[ "$build_status" != "success" ]]; then
     >&2 echo "Build status is $build_status, but it should be success."
     exit -1
 fi
@@ -61,6 +63,7 @@ source venv-test/bin/activate
 pip install docker-compose==$VERSION
 docker-compose version
 deactivate
+rm -rf venv-test
 
 echo "Now publish the github release, and test the downloads."
 echo "Email maintainers@dockerproject.org and engineering@docker.com about the new release."