diff --git a/tasks/admin/components/update.js b/tasks/admin/components/update.js
index e4b57a572..4817e0b58 100644
--- a/tasks/admin/components/update.js
+++ b/tasks/admin/components/update.js
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ module.exports = function(callback) {
       if(version) {
         releaseOptions.target_commitish = version;
       }
-      github.releases.createRelease(releaseOptions, function() {
+      github.repos.createRelease(releaseOptions, function() {
         nextRepo();
       });
     }
diff --git a/tasks/admin/distributions/update.js b/tasks/admin/distributions/update.js
index e7b3f2cb5..5c23bfacb 100644
--- a/tasks/admin/distributions/update.js
+++ b/tasks/admin/distributions/update.js
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ module.exports = function(callback) {
       if(version) {
         releaseOptions.target_commitish = version;
       }
-      github.releases.createRelease(releaseOptions, function() {
+      github.repos.createRelease(releaseOptions, function() {
         nextRepo();
       });
     }