diff --git a/scripts/release/README.md b/scripts/release/README.md
index 3908142bb6b0..5f35d4e4d771 100644
--- a/scripts/release/README.md
+++ b/scripts/release/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# PyTorch Release Scripts
+# PyTorch release scripts performing branch cut and applying release only changes
 
 These are a collection of scripts that are to be used for release activities.
 
@@ -7,54 +7,12 @@ These are a collection of scripts that are to be used for release activities.
 >       The basic idea being that there should be no potential to do anything dangerous unless
 >       `DRY_RUN` is explicitly set to `disabled`.
 
-## Requirements to actually run these scripts
-* AWS access to pytorch account
-* Access to upload conda packages to the `pytorch` conda channel
-* Access to the PyPI repositories
+### Order of Execution
 
+1. Run cut-release-branch.sh to cut the release branch
+2. Run tag-docker-images.sh to tag current docker images with release tag and push them to docker.io. These images will be used to build the release.
+3. Run apply-release-changes.sh to apply release only changes to create a PR with release only changes similar to this [PR](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/149056)
 
-## Promote
+#### Promoting packages
 
-These are scripts related to promotion of release candidates to GA channels, these
-can actually be used to promote pytorch, libtorch, and related domain libraries.
-
-### Usage
-
-Usage should be fairly straightforward and should actually require no extra variables
-if you are running from the correct git tags. (i.e. the GA tag to promote is currently
-checked out)
-
-`PACKAGE_TYPE` and `PACKAGE_NAME` can be swapped out to promote other packages.
-
-#### Promoting pytorch wheels
-```bash
-promote/s3_to_s3.sh
-```
-
-#### Promoting libtorch archives
-```bash
-PACKAGE_TYPE=libtorch PACKAGE_NAME=libtorch promote/s3_to_s3.sh
-```
-
-#### Promoting conda packages
-```bash
-promote/conda_to_conda.sh
-```
-
-#### Promoting wheels to PyPI
-**WARNING**: These can only be run once and cannot be undone, run with caution
-```
-promote/wheel_to_pypi.sh
-```
-
-## Restoring backups
-
-All release candidates are currently backed up to `s3://pytorch-backup/${TAG_NAME}` and
-can be restored to the test channels with the `restore-backup.sh` script.
-
-Which backup to restore from is dictated by the `RESTORE_FROM` environment variable.
-
-### Usage
-```bash
-RESTORE_FROM=v1.5.0-rc5 ./restore-backup.sh
-```
+ Scripts for Promotion of PyTorch packages are under test-infra repository. Please follow [README.md](https://github.com/pytorch/test-infra/blob/main/release/README.md)
diff --git a/scripts/release/promote/common_utils.sh b/scripts/release/promote/common_utils.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index e50ccb110013..000000000000
--- a/scripts/release/promote/common_utils.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-exit_if_not_on_git_tag() {
-    # Have an override for debugging purposes
-    if [[ -n "${TEST_WITHOUT_GIT_TAG-}" ]] ;then
-        >&2 echo "+ WARN: Continuing without being on a git tag"
-        exit 0
-    fi
-    # Exit if we're not currently on a git tag
-    if ! git describe --tags --exact >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
-        >&2 echo "- ERROR: Attempting to promote on a non-git tag, must have tagged current commit locally first"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    # Exit if we're currently on an RC
-    if git describe --tags | grep "-rc" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
-        >&2 echo "- ERROR: Attempting to promote on a non GA git tag, current tag must be a GA tag"
-        >&2 echo "         Example: v1.5.0"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-get_pytorch_version() {
-    if [[ -n "${TEST_WITHOUT_GIT_TAG-}" ]];then
-        if  [[ -z "${TEST_PYTORCH_PROMOTE_VERSION-}" ]]; then
-            >&2 echo "- ERROR: Specified TEST_WITHOUT_GIT_TAG without specifying TEST_PYTORCH_PROMOTE_VERSION"
-            >&2 echo "-        TEST_PYTORCH_PROMOTE_VERSION must be specified"
-            exit 1
-        else
-            echo "${TEST_PYTORCH_PROMOTE_VERSION}"
-            exit 0
-        fi
-    fi
-    exit_if_not_on_git_tag
-    # Echo git tag, strip leading v
-    git describe --tags | sed -e 's/^v//'
-}
-
-aws_promote() {
-    package_name=$1
-    pytorch_version=$(get_pytorch_version)
-    # Dry run by default
-    DRY_RUN=${DRY_RUN:-enabled}
-    DRY_RUN_FLAG="--dryrun"
-    if [[ $DRY_RUN = "disabled" ]]; then
-        DRY_RUN_FLAG=""
-    fi
-    AWS=${AWS:-aws}
-    (
-        set -x
-        ${AWS} s3 cp ${DRY_RUN_FLAG} \
-            --only-show-errors \
-            --acl public-read \
-            --recursive \
-            --exclude '*' \
-            --include "*${package_name}-${pytorch_version}*" \
-            "${PYTORCH_S3_FROM/\/$//}" \
-            "${PYTORCH_S3_TO/\/$//}"
-    )
-    # ^ We grep for package_name-.*pytorch_version to avoid any situations where domain libraries have
-    #   the same version on our S3 buckets
-}
diff --git a/scripts/release/promote/prep_binary_for_pypi.sh b/scripts/release/promote/prep_binary_for_pypi.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index bb088f55468b..000000000000
--- a/scripts/release/promote/prep_binary_for_pypi.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Preps binaries for publishing to pypi by removing the
-# version suffix we normally add for all binaries
-# (outside of default ones, CUDA 10.2 currently)
-
-# Usage is:
-# $ prep_binary_for_pypy.sh <path_to_whl_file> <path_to_multiple_whl_files>
-
-# Will output a whl in your current directory
-
-set -eou pipefail
-shopt -s globstar
-
-OUTPUT_DIR=${OUTPUT_DIR:-$(pwd)}
-
-tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf ${tmp_dir}' EXIT
-
-for whl_file in "$@"; do
-    whl_file=$(realpath "${whl_file}")
-    whl_dir="${tmp_dir}/$(basename "${whl_file}")_unzipped"
-    mkdir -pv "${whl_dir}"
-    (
-        set -x
-        unzip -q "${whl_file}" -d "${whl_dir}"
-    )
-    version_with_suffix=$(grep '^Version:' "${whl_dir}"/*/METADATA | cut -d' ' -f2)
-    version_with_suffix_escaped=${version_with_suffix/+/%2B}
-    # Remove all suffixed +bleh versions
-    version_no_suffix=${version_with_suffix/+*/}
-    new_whl_file=${OUTPUT_DIR}/$(basename "${whl_file/${version_with_suffix_escaped}/${version_no_suffix}}")
-    dist_info_folder=$(find "${whl_dir}" -type d -name '*.dist-info' | head -1)
-    basename_dist_info_folder=$(basename "${dist_info_folder}")
-    dirname_dist_info_folder=$(dirname "${dist_info_folder}")
-    (
-        set -x
-        find "${dist_info_folder}" -type f -exec sed -i "s!${version_with_suffix}!${version_no_suffix}!" {} \;
-        # Moves distinfo from one with a version suffix to one without
-        # Example: torch-1.8.0+cpu.dist-info => torch-1.8.0.dist-info
-        mv "${dist_info_folder}" "${dirname_dist_info_folder}/${basename_dist_info_folder/${version_with_suffix}/${version_no_suffix}}"
-        cd "${whl_dir}"
-        zip -qr "${new_whl_file}" .
-    )
-done
diff --git a/scripts/release/promote/s3_to_s3.sh b/scripts/release/promote/s3_to_s3.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 21495ac3b325..000000000000
--- a/scripts/release/promote/s3_to_s3.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eou pipefail
-
-DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
-source "${DIR}/common_utils.sh"
-
-# Allow for users to pass PACKAGE_NAME
-# For use with other packages, i.e. torchvision, etc.
-PACKAGE_NAME=${PACKAGE_NAME:-torch}
-PACKAGE_TYPE=${PACKAGE_TYPE:-whl}
-
-PYTORCH_S3_BUCKET=${PYTORCH_S3_BUCKET:-s3://pytorch}
-FROM=${FROM:-test}
-PYTORCH_S3_FROM=${PYTORCH_S3_FROM:-${PYTORCH_S3_BUCKET}/${PACKAGE_TYPE}/${FROM}}
-TO=${TO:-}
-PYTORCH_S3_TO=${PYTORCH_S3_TO:-${PYTORCH_S3_BUCKET}/${PACKAGE_TYPE}/${TO}}
-
-aws_promote "${PACKAGE_NAME}"
diff --git a/scripts/release/promote/wheel_to_pypi.sh b/scripts/release/promote/wheel_to_pypi.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 1e9b7411f2fd..000000000000
--- a/scripts/release/promote/wheel_to_pypi.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eou pipefail
-
-DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
-source "${DIR}/common_utils.sh"
-
-# Allow for users to pass PACKAGE_NAME
-# For use with other packages, i.e. torchvision, etc.
-PACKAGE_NAME=${PACKAGE_NAME:-torch}
-
-pytorch_version="$(get_pytorch_version)"
-# Refers to the specific package we'd like to promote
-# i.e. VERSION_SUFFIX='%2Bcu102'
-#      torch-1.8.0+cu102 -> torch-1.8.0
-VERSION_SUFFIX=${VERSION_SUFFIX:-}
-# Refers to the specific platofmr we'd like to promote
-# i.e. PLATFORM=linux_x86_64
-# For domains like torchaudio / torchtext this is to be left blank
-PLATFORM=${PLATFORM:-}
-
-pkgs_to_promote=$(\
-    curl -fsSL https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html \
-        | grep "${PACKAGE_NAME}-${pytorch_version}${VERSION_SUFFIX}-" \
-        | grep "${PLATFORM}" \
-        | cut -d '"' -f2
-)
-
-tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-output_tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf ${tmp_dir} ${output_tmp_dir}' EXIT
-pushd "${output_tmp_dir}"
-
-# Dry run by default
-DRY_RUN=${DRY_RUN:-enabled}
-# On dry run just echo the commands that are meant to be run
-TWINE_UPLOAD="echo twine upload"
-if [[ $DRY_RUN = "disabled" ]]; then
-    TWINE_UPLOAD="twine upload"
-fi
-
-for pkg in ${pkgs_to_promote}; do
-    pkg_basename="$(basename "${pkg}")"
-    # Don't attempt to change if manylinux2014
-    if [[ "${pkg}" != *manylinux2014* ]]; then
-        pkg_basename="$(basename "${pkg//linux/manylinux1}")"
-    fi
-    orig_pkg="${tmp_dir}/${pkg_basename}"
-    (
-        set -x
-        # Download package, sub out linux for manylinux1
-        curl -fsSL -o "${orig_pkg}" "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/${pkg}"
-    )
-
-    if [[ -n "${VERSION_SUFFIX}" ]]; then
-        OUTPUT_DIR="${output_tmp_dir}" ${DIR}/prep_binary_for_pypi.sh "${orig_pkg}"
-    else
-        mv "${orig_pkg}" "${output_tmp_dir}/"
-    fi
-
-    (
-        set -x
-        ${TWINE_UPLOAD} \
-            --disable-progress-bar \
-            --non-interactive \
-            ./*.whl
-        rm -rf ./*.whl
-    )
-done
diff --git a/scripts/release/restore-backup.sh b/scripts/release/restore-backup.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index c1e190f1ba05..000000000000
--- a/scripts/release/restore-backup.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eou pipefail
-
-DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" >/dev/null 2>&1 && pwd )"
-source "${DIR}/promote/common_utils.sh"
-
-if [[ -z "${RESTORE_FROM:-}" ]]; then
-    echo "ERROR: RESTORE_FROM environment variable must be specified"
-    echo "       example: RESTORE_FROM=v1.6.0-rc3 ${0}"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-DRY_RUN=${DRY_RUN:-enabled}
-
-PYTORCH_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET=${PYTORCH_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET:-s3://pytorch-backup/${RESTORE_FROM}}
-PYTORCH_S3_TEST_BUCKET=${PYTORCH_S3_TEST_BUCKET:-s3://pytorch/}
-PYTORCH_S3_FROM=${PYTORCH_S3_FROM:-${PYTORCH_S3_BACKUP_BUCKET}}
-PYTORCH_S3_TO=${PYTORCH_S3_TO:-s3://pytorch/}
-
-restore_wheels() {
-    aws_promote torch whl
-}
-
-restore_libtorch() {
-    aws_promote libtorch-* libtorch
-}
-
-
-restore_wheels
-restore_libtorch