diff --git a/docs/using.rst b/docs/using.rst
index 60c074d75..e7e0e9474 100644
--- a/docs/using.rst
+++ b/docs/using.rst
@@ -215,12 +215,25 @@ expire in less than 30 days. The same plugin and options that were used
 at the time the certificate was originally issued will be used for the
 renewal attempt, unless you specify other plugins or options.
 
+You can also specify hooks to be run before or after a certificate is
+renewed. For example, if you want to use the standalone_ plugin to renew
+your certificates, you may want to use a command like
+
+``letsencrypt renew --standalone --pre-hook "service nginx stop" --post-hook "service nginx start"``
+
+This will stop Nginx so standalone can bind to the necessary ports and
+then restart Nginx after the plugin is finished. The hooks will only be
+run if a certificate is due for renewal, so you can run this command
+frequently without unnecessarily stopping your webserver. More
+information about renewal hooks can be found by running
+``letsencrypt --help renew``.
+
 If you're sure that this command executes successfully without human
 intervention, you can add the command to ``crontab`` (since certificates
 are only renewed when they're determined to be near expiry, the command
-can run on a regular basis, like every week or every day); note that
-the current version provides detailed output describing either renewal
-success or failure.
+can run on a regular basis, like every week or every day). In that case,
+you are likely to want to use the ``-q`` or ``--quiet`` quiet flag to
+silence all output except errors.
 
 The ``--force-renew`` flag may be helpful for automating renewal;
 it causes the expiration time of the certificate(s) to be ignored when
@@ -241,9 +254,11 @@ renewals of that certificate.
 An alternative form that provides for more fine-grained control over the
 renewal process (while renewing specified certificates one at a time),
 is ``letsencrypt certonly`` with the complete set of subject domains of
-a specific certificate specified via `-d` flags, like
+a specific certificate specified via `-d` flags. You may also want to
+include the ``-n`` or ``--noninteractive`` flag to prevent blocking on
+user input (which is useful when running the command from cron).
 
-``letsencrypt certonly -d example.com -d www.example.com``
+``letsencrypt certonly -n -d example.com -d www.example.com``
 
 (All of the domains covered by the certificate must be specified in
 this case in order to renew and replace the old certificate rather
diff --git a/tools/release.sh b/tools/release.sh
index d41192af9..e6169c5c8 100755
--- a/tools/release.sh
+++ b/tools/release.sh
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
 PORT=${PORT:-1234}
 
 # subpackages to be released
-SUBPKGS=${SUBPKGS:-"acme certbot-apache certbot-nginx letshelp-certbot"}
+SUBPKGS=${SUBPKGS:-"acme certbot-apache certbot-nginx letshelp-certbot letsencrypt letsencrypt-apache letsencrypt-nginx letshelp-letsencrypt"}
 subpkgs_modules="$(echo $SUBPKGS | sed s/-/_/g)"
 # certbot_compatibility_test is not packaged because:
 # - it is not meant to be used by anyone else than Certbot devs
@@ -162,12 +162,12 @@ done
 deactivate
 
 # pin pip hashes of the things we just built
-for pkg in acme certbot certbot-apache ; do
+for pkg in acme certbot certbot-apache letsencrypt letsencrypt-apache ; do
     echo $pkg==$version \\
     pip hash dist."$version/$pkg"/*.{whl,gz} | grep "^--hash" | python2 -c 'from sys import stdin; input = stdin.read(); print "   ", input.replace("\n--hash", " \\\n    --hash"),'
 done > /tmp/hashes.$$
 
-if ! wc -l /tmp/hashes.$$ | grep -qE "^\s*9 " ; then
+if ! wc -l /tmp/hashes.$$ | grep -qE "^\s*15 " ; then
     echo Unexpected pip hash output
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -188,9 +188,10 @@ while ! openssl dgst -sha256 -verify $RELEASE_OPENSSL_PUBKEY -signature \
 done
 
 # copy leauto to the root, overwriting the previous release version
+cp -p letsencrypt-auto-source/letsencrypt-auto certbot-auto
 cp -p letsencrypt-auto-source/letsencrypt-auto letsencrypt-auto
 
-git add letsencrypt-auto letsencrypt-auto-source
+git add certbot-auto letsencrypt-auto letsencrypt-auto-source
 git diff --cached
 git commit --gpg-sign="$RELEASE_GPG_KEY" -m "Release $version"
 git tag --local-user "$RELEASE_GPG_KEY" --sign --message "Release $version" "$tag"