diff --git a/docs/development/releasing.md b/docs/development/releasing.md
index b968878e2eff..6eca9831c036 100644
--- a/docs/development/releasing.md
+++ b/docs/development/releasing.md
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ This branch is created as a precaution to prevent any merged PRs from sneaking i
 
 ## Bump the version
 
-Run the `bump-release` script, passing `major`, `minor`, or `patch` as an argument:
+Run the `bump-version` script, passing `major`, `minor`, or `patch` as an argument:
 
 ```sh
-npm run bump-release -- patch
+npm run bump-version -- patch
 ```
 
 This will bump the version number in several files. See [this bump commit] for an example.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4da2cbb919d8..560b48421e31 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "bootstrap": "python ./script/bootstrap.py",
     "browserify": "browserify",
-    "bump-release": "./script/bump-release.py",
+    "bump-version": "./script/bump-version.py",
     "build": "python ./script/build.py -c D",
     "clean": "python ./script/clean.py",
     "coverage": "npm run instrument-code-coverage && npm test -- --use-instrumented-asar",