diff --git a/scripts/release b/scripts/release
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+++ b/scripts/release
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+DIRS="libsepol libselinux libsemanage policycoreutils checkpolicy sepolgen"
+
+mkdir ../selinux-dev-release
+
+for i in $DIRS; do
+	cd $i
+	git archive --format=tar --prefix=$i-`cat VERSION`/ HEAD | gzip > ../../selinux-dev-release/$i-`cat VERSION`.tar.gz
+	cd ..
+done
+