diff --git a/scripts/build/github-tagging.sh b/scripts/build/github-tagging.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f9316a7d48..0000000000
--- a/scripts/build/github-tagging.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# add and remove tags from an github issue, api token is taken from env ($PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN)
-# usage: ghtag ISSUE_NR OWNER REPO ADD_TAGS RM_TAGS
-#
-# ADD_TAGS should be json with tokens you want to add, as in: ["tested"]
-# RM_TAGS should be a list of words, like "building bananas"
-function ghtag {
-  if [[ "$PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN" == "" ]]
-  then
-    echoerr "Env variable PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN was empty, unable to call github api!"
-    exit 1;
-  fi
-
-  issue=$1
-  owner=$2
-  repo=$3
-  add=$4
-  remove=$5
-
-  # checking for existing tags
-  currentTagsJson=`curl -s -H "Authorization: token $PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/issues/$issue/labels`
-  currentTags=`echo "$currentTagsJson" | python -mjson.tool | grep '"name":' | awk '{ print $2 }' | sed s/\"//g | sed s/,//g`
-
-  # adding new tags - we do want to show these, always performing
-  curl -s -H "Authorization: token $PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/issues/$issue/labels -X POST -d $add > /dev/null
-
-  # removing tags
-  for d in $remove
-  do
-    # only delete tags that actually are set on the issue, otherwise github shows these "removed tag" events,
-    # even if the tag never was previously set - which is confusing / verbose
-    if [[ $currentTags == *$d* ]]
-    then
-      curl -s -H "Authorization: token $PR_VALIDATOR_GH_TOKEN" https://api.github.com/repos/$owner/$repo/issues/$issue/labels/$d -X DELETE > /dev/null
-    fi
-  done
-}
-
-echoerr() { echo "$@" 1>&2; }
diff --git a/scripts/compile_etags_file.sh b/scripts/compile_etags_file.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f3ddce96fd..0000000000
--- a/scripts/compile_etags_file.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-sctags.bat -E -R . -f TAGS
diff --git a/scripts/git-remove-history.sh b/scripts/git-remove-history.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5daf35f5c5..0000000000
--- a/scripts/git-remove-history.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-cat <<'EOT'
-@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
-@ This command rewrites GIT history like git-rebase. Beware never to rewrite   @
-@ trees which are already published, as that would deeply upset all cloning    @
-@ repos. For more details see 'git help rebase'. Tread carefully!              @
-@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
-EOT
-read -p "I know what I am doing: " answer
-test "$answer" = yes || exit 1
-
-set -o errexit
- 
-# Author: David Underhill
-# Script to permanently delete files/folders from your git repository.  To use 
-# it, cd to your repository's root and then run the script with a list of paths
-# you want to delete, e.g., git-delete-history path1 path2
- 
-if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
-    exit 0
-fi
- 
-# make sure we're at the root of git repo
-if [ ! -d .git ]; then
-    echo "Error: must run this script from the root of a git repository"
-    exit 1
-fi
- 
-# remove all paths passed as arguments from the history of the repo
-files=$@
-git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch $files" HEAD
- 
-# remove the temporary history git-filter-branch otherwise leaves behind for a long time
-rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all &&  git gc --aggressive --prune
diff --git a/scripts/release_stats.sh b/scripts/release_stats.sh
index d7c93be2ae..99cffc0ed3 100755
--- a/scripts/release_stats.sh
+++ b/scripts/release_stats.sh
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ declare milestone_id=$(echo "$open_milestones$closed_milestones" | sed 's/"descr
 declare tickets=$(curl -s -H "$script_user_agent" "https://api.github.com/repos/apache/incubator-pekko/issues?milestone=$milestone_id&state=all&per_page=100" | sed 's/"comments"/\n/g' | perl -ne 'm/number":([0-9]+),"title":"(.+?)",/ && print " - *$1* $2\n"' | sort -n)
 declare ticket_count=$(echo "$tickets" | wc -l | grep -o '[1-9].*')
 
-echo "$tag1 compared to Akka $tag2":
+echo "$tag1 compared to Pekko $tag2":
 
 echo "* $ticket_count tickets closed"