diff --git a/scripts/create-release.sh b/scripts/create-release.sh
index 1394f8f52..547dd1d8a 100755
--- a/scripts/create-release.sh
+++ b/scripts/create-release.sh
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ cat <<END
 
 Todo now:
 ---------
+
  1. tag the subversion tree with the new revision number for a plain release
     or a release candidate:
     version 2.7.0 gets two tags: RELEASE_2_7_0 and STABLE
@@ -197,7 +198,9 @@ Todo now:
 
  2. prepare a release/phpMyAdmin-$version-notes.html explaining in short the goal of
     this release and paste into it the ChangeLog for this release
- 3. upload the files and the notes file to SF (procedure explained on the sf.net Project Admin/File Manager help page)
+ 3. upload the files to SF, you can use scripts/upload-release, eg.:
+
+        ./scripts/upload-release \$USER $version release
  4. add SF news item to phpMyAdmin project
  5. announce release on freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyadmin/)
  6. send a short mail (with list of major changes) to
diff --git a/scripts/upload-release b/scripts/upload-release
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4bcfa5e69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/upload-release
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+set -u
+
+if [ $# -lt 2 ] ; then
+    echo 'Usage: upload-release USERNAME VERSION [DIR]'
+    echo 'Must be called in directory with binaries or with path'
+    exit 1
+fi
+USER=$1
+REL=$2
+
+if [ $# -gt 2 ] ; then
+    cd "$3"
+fi
+
+sftp $USER,phpmyadmin@frs.sourceforge.net <<EOT
+cd /home/frs/project/p/ph/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin
+mkdir $REL
+cd $REL
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-all-languages.tar.bz2
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-english.tar.bz2
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-all-languages.tar.gz
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-english.tar.gz
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-all-languages.zip	
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-english.zip
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-all-languages.7z	
+put phpMyAdmin-$REL-english.7z
+EOT
+