diff --git a/README-maintainer b/README-maintainer
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--- a/README-maintainer
+++ b/README-maintainer
@@ -107,59 +107,15 @@ RELEASE PREPARATION
 
 CREATING A RELEASE
 
-* Be sure that the local git clone's HEAD is a commit that has
-  upstream/master as an ancestor and that can be pushed to my fork. We
-  will be generating releases and tagging this commit, which will be
-  pushed to master as part of the release process.
+* Push to master. The azure pipeline will create an artifact called
+  distribution which will contain all the distribution files. Download
+  these, verify the checksums from the job output, rename to remove
+  -ci from the names, and copy to the release archive area.
 
-* Create source release:
+* Sign the source distribution:
 
 version=x.y.z
-./make_dist $version
-gpg --detach-sign --armor /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz
-
-  Move /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz and /tmp/qpdf-$version.tar.gz.asc to
-  the release archive area.
-
-  For iterating on the release during testing, pass `--no-tests` to
-  make_dist to skip the test suite.
-
-* Generate an AppImage using the docker image in appimage. Arguments
-  to the docker container are arguments to git clone. The build should
-  be made off the exact commit that will be officially tagged as the
-  release but built prior to tagging the release. We used to create
-  signed AppImages, but this is problematic for various reasons (older
-  gpg on the build image, problems embedding the key in the AppImage
-  because of ELF issues), and we are signing the AppImages externally,
-  so it doesn't really matter.
-
-  Example:
-
-cd appimage
-docker build -t qpdfbuild .
-\rm -rf /tmp/build
-mkdir -p /tmp/build
-docker run --privileged -ti --rm -v /tmp/build:/tmp/build qpdfbuild https://github.com/jberkenbilt/qpdf -b work
-
-  The AppImage in /tmp/build/qpdf/appimage/build should be called
-  qpdf-$version-x86_64.AppImage. Copy qpdf*AppImage* (AppImage and
-  zsync) files to the release archive area.
-
-* Create Windows binary releases. In Windows:
-  * Extract the source distribution
-  * From there, unzip the binary distribution of the external libraries
-  * Open windows for 32-bit and 64-bit compilation environments that
-    support msvc and mingw
-  * Disable antivirus software. For bitdefender, open, select the "B"
-    shield, and go to "View Features". Disable all features. Disable
-    antivirus until next restart.
-  * In each window simultaneously, run ./make_windows_releases
-    * NOTE: For now, test failures are not fatal because of unknown
-      fragility in the Windows test environment. If any tests fail,
-      test logs are copied to qtest-*. Check test logs carefully
-      before accepting the releases.
-  * Copy the four resulting zip files into the release archive area
-  * Re-enable anti-virus software
+gpg --detach-sign --armor qpdf-$version.tar.gz
 
 * Build and test the debian package