diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 976395da7..0f09d5e88 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ before_install:
 language: scala
 jdk: oraclejdk8
 
+# although this is the 2.13.x branch, we don't have any 2.13 scala-dist
+# artifacts to depend on yet. so for now, just keep using 2.12.0
 script:
 - sbt -Dproject.version=2.12.0 s3Upload::mappings
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49b9f5ccc..b82b7078c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# The Scala 2.12.x Distribution
+# The Scala 2.13.x Distribution
 
 This project morphs the `"org.scala-lang" % "scala-dist" % $version` maven artifact
 into a Scala `$version` distribution (zip, tar.gz, deb, rpm, and msi).
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ We welcome new maintainers!
 If you're looking for the editor configurations that used to be in the tool-support directory, please see https://github.com/scala/scala-tool-support.
 They were moved out because they no longer ship with the Scala distribution. (New maintainers are welcome on the scala-tool-support project!)
 
-The specification also used to be in this repo -- it is now a part of the main repository over at [scala/scala](https://github.com/scala/scala/tree/2.11.x/spec).
-
 ## Windows VM
   - install Windows 7 professional N 64-bit, ensure network access to GitHub
   - install Oracle Java 6 JDK
@@ -47,5 +45,4 @@ Please read the [Scala Pull Request Policy](https://github.com/scala/scala/wiki/
 and sign the [CLA](http://www.lightbend.com/contribute/cla/scala).
 
 The branching structure mimics that of [scala/scala](https://github.com/scala/scala):
-branches for 2.11.x, 2.12.x, etc.
-
+branches for 2.11.x, 2.12.x, 2.13.x, etc.
diff --git a/scripts/jobs/release/package/generic b/scripts/jobs/release/package/generic
index 5fe5d624f..a80decc6c 100755
--- a/scripts/jobs/release/package/generic
+++ b/scripts/jobs/release/package/generic
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # @pre current directory == repo root
 # must run on both windows (cygwin) and linux
 
-# invoked from scala-release-2.11.x-[unix|windows]
+# invoked from scala-release-2.13.x-[unix|windows]
 
 # uses the following env vars:
 #   - WORKSPACE, JAVA_OPTS (jenkins standard)
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ repositoriesFile="$WORKSPACE/conf/repositories"
 
 tags="$(git tag --points-at HEAD)"
 
-# version is set by the scala-release-2.11.x-dist build flow, make sure it's consistent with the tag
+# version is set by the scala-release-2.13.x-dist build flow, make sure it's consistent with the tag
 # this is also a backstop for https://github.com/sbt/sbt-git/issues/35
 # ignore when there is no version (job is running outside of the flow)
 [[ -z $sbtDistVersionOverride ]] && [[ -n $version ]] && if [ "$tags" != "v$version" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives b/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
index 7166182e8..b8dac6648 100755
--- a/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
+++ b/scripts/jobs/release/website/archives
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ declare -a sshCharaArgs="$sshCharaArgs"
 url="http://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/$version"
 
 if [[ "$version" =~ .*-nightly ]]
-then archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala/nightly/2.12.x"
+then archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala/nightly/2.13.x"
 else archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala"
 fi
 
diff --git a/scripts/jobs/release/website/update-api b/scripts/jobs/release/website/update-api
index 9e0dfcaa0..0df0be1e8 100755
--- a/scripts/jobs/release/website/update-api
+++ b/scripts/jobs/release/website/update-api
@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@
 declare -a sshCharaArgs="$sshCharaArgs"
 
 if [[ "$version" =~ .*-nightly ]]
-then archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala/nightly/2.12.x"
+then archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala/nightly/2.13.x"
 else archivesDir="~linuxsoft/archives/scala"
 fi
 
-echo "Symlinking $archivesDir/api/$version to $archivesDir/api/2.12.x."
+echo "Symlinking $archivesDir/api/$version to $archivesDir/api/2.13.x."
 
-ssh "${sshCharaArgs[@]}" "cd $archivesDir/api/ ; [[ -d $version ]] && ln -sfn $version 2.12.x"
+ssh "${sshCharaArgs[@]}" "cd $archivesDir/api/ ; [[ -d $version ]] && ln -sfn $version 2.13.x"
 
 # needs to run once on new major release:
-# ssh "${sshCharaArgs[@]}" "cd $archivesDir/api/ ; [[ -d $version ]] && ln -sfn 2.12.x current"
-
+# ssh "${sshCharaArgs[@]}" "cd $archivesDir/api/ ; [[ -d $version ]] && ln -sfn 2.13.x current"