diff --git a/buildScript/publish-to-github.js b/buildScript/publish-to-github.js
index 3eecff8557..87accfca8a 100644
--- a/buildScript/publish-to-github.js
+++ b/buildScript/publish-to-github.js
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ var request = require('request');
 var ffdesc = 'This standalone release enable Firefly to run without additional dependencies beside Java 1.8. \n' +
              'It comes with an embedded Tomcat 7. \n\n' +
              'To start Firefly: \n' +
-             'java -jar fftools-exec.war \n\n' +
-             'By default, it will start up on port 8080. Goto to http://localhost:8080/fftools/ after it has started. \n' +
+             'java -jar firefly-exec.war \n\n' +
+             'By default, it will start up on port 8080. Goto to http://localhost:8080/firefly/ after it has started. \n' +
              'To start it on a different port, add -httpPort to the java command. \n\n' +
              'This will extract the content of the war file into a directory called ".extract" in your current directory. \n' +
              'To change this, add -extractDirectory to the java command. \n\n';
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ if (args.tag && args.assets) {
 
     var rel_config = {
         token: '',
-        owner: 'lsst',
+        owner: 'Caltech-IPAC',
         repo: 'firefly',
         tag: '',
         name: args.tag,
@@ -52,8 +52,11 @@ if (args.tag && args.assets) {
     process.exit(1);
 }
 
-function getChangeLog(rel_config, lastdate) {
-    var cmd = 'git log --pretty=format:"%h - %s [%cd]" --date=short --after="' + lastdate +'"';
+function getChangeLog(rel_config, lastRel) {
+    lastRel = lastRel || 'master';
+    var cmd = 'git log --pretty=format:"%h - %s [%cd]" --date=short ' + lastRel + '..HEAD';
+
+    console.log( 'CMD: ' + cmd);
 
     // push changes to github..
     exec(cmd, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ function getChangeLog(rel_config, lastdate) {
 function checkGitHub(rel_config, callback) {
 
     request({
-        uri: rel_config.apiUrl + '/repos/' + rel_config.owner + '/' + rel_config.repo + '/commits/master',
+        uri: rel_config.apiUrl + '/repos/' + rel_config.owner + '/' + rel_config.repo + '/releases',
         method: 'GET',
         headers: {
             'Authorization': 'token ' + rel_config.token,
@@ -77,17 +80,14 @@ function checkGitHub(rel_config, callback) {
     }, function (err, res, body) {
         if (err) return callback(err);
         var result = JSON.parse(body);
-        console.log( 'github latest commit: ' + result.sha );
-        callback(rel_config, result.commit.author.date);
+        console.log( 'github latest release: ' + result.tag_name );
+        callback(rel_config, result.tag_name);
     });
 }
 
 function doPublish(rel_config) {
 
     rel_config.notes = ffdesc + rel_config.notes;
-    execSync('git remote add lsst https://' + rel_config.token +'@github.com/lsst/firefly.git');
-    execSync('git push --tags -f lsst HEAD:master');
-    execSync('git remote rm lsst');
 
     publishRelease(rel_config,
         function (err, release) {
diff --git a/src/firefly/pom.xml b/src/firefly/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1ef1cafaf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/firefly/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+    <properties>
+        <tomcat.version>7.0.59</tomcat.version>
+        <build.dir>${project.basedir}/../../build/firefly</build.dir>
+    </properties>
+
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>edu.caltech.ipac</groupId>
+    <artifactId>firefly</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0</version>
+    <packaging>war</packaging>
+    <name>firefly</name>
+    <description>A standalone version of Firefly with embedded Tomcat</description>
+
+    <pluginRepositories>
+        <pluginRepository>
+            <id>apache.snapshots</id>
+            <name>Apache Snapshots</name>
+            <url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
+            <releases>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </releases>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>true</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+        </pluginRepository>
+    </pluginRepositories>
+    <build>
+        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
+        <directory>${build.dir}/exec/</directory>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
+                    <webappDirectory>${build.dir}/gwt/firefly</webappDirectory>
+                    <outputDirectory>${build.dir}/exec/</outputDirectory>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
+                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>tomcat-run</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>exec-war-only</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <path>/firefly</path>
+                            <finalName>firefly-exec.war</finalName>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+
+                <dependencies>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>tomcat-embed-websocket</artifactId>
+                        <version>${tomcat.version}</version>
+                    </dependency>
+
+                </dependencies>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
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