diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index b8940df7..9bcce7a8 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 **
-!release-github
+!release-packages
 !ci
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index c6413922..411f5e9d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -32,18 +32,19 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v1
       - name: Download npm package
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: npm-package
-      - name: Run ./ci/steps/static-release.sh
+          path: ./release
+      - name: Run ./ci/steps/release-static.sh
         uses: ./ci/container
         with:
-          args: ./ci/steps/static-release.sh
+          args: ./ci/steps/release-static.sh
       - name: Upload release artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
-          name: release-github
-          path: ./release-github/*
+          name: release-packages
+          path: ./release-packages
 
   linux-arm64:
     needs: release
@@ -51,18 +52,19 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v1
       - name: Download npm package
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: npm-package
-      - name: Run ./ci/steps/static-release.sh
+          path: ./release
+      - name: Run ./ci/steps/release-static.sh
         uses: ./ci/container
         with:
-          args: ./ci/steps/static-release.sh
+          args: ./ci/steps/release-static.sh
       - name: Upload release artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
-          name: release-github
-          path: ./release-github/*
+          name: release-packages
+          path: ./release-packages
 
   macos:
     needs: release
@@ -70,17 +72,18 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v1
       - name: Download npm package
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
         with:
           name: npm-package
+          path: ./release
       - run: brew unlink node@12
       - run: brew install node
-      - run: ./ci/steps/static-release.sh
+      - run: ./ci/steps/release-static.sh
         env:
           # Otherwise we get rate limited when fetching the ripgrep binary.
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
       - name: Upload release artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
         with:
-          name: release-github
-          path: ./release-github/*
+          name: release-packages
+          path: ./release-packages
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 86557de4..35daca8b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ dist*
 out*
 release/
 release-static/
-release-github/
+release-packages/
 release-gcp/
 node_modules
diff --git a/ci/README.md b/ci/README.md
index a5397f59..bf9e1875 100644
--- a/ci/README.md
+++ b/ci/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ This directory contains scripts used for the development of code-server.
 ## build
 
 This directory contains the scripts used to build code-server.
+You can disable minification by setting `MINIFY=`.
 
 - [./lib.sh](./lib.sh)
   - Contains code duplicated across these scripts.
@@ -50,12 +51,11 @@ This directory contains the scripts used to build code-server.
   - Useful to do a clean build.
 - [./build/code-server.sh](./build/code-server.sh)
   - Copied into static releases to run code-server with the bundled node binary.
-- [./build/archive-static-release.sh](./build/archive-static-release.sh)
-  - Archives `./release-static` into a tar/zip for CI with the proper directory name scheme
 - [./build/test-release.sh](./build/test-static-release.sh)
   - Ensures code-server in the `./release-static` directory runs
-- [./build/build-static-pkgs.sh](./build/build-static-pkgs.sh) (`yarn pkg`)
-  - Uses [nfpm](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm) to generate .deb and .rpm from a static release
+- [./build/build-packages.sh](./build/build-static-pkgs.sh) (`yarn package`)
+  - Packages `./release-static` into an archive in `./release-packages`
+  - If on linux, [nfpm](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm) is used to generate .deb and .rpm
 - [./build/nfpm.yaml](./build/nfpm.yaml)
   - Used to configure [nfpm](https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm) to generate .deb and .rpm
 - [./build/code-server-nfpm.sh](./build/code-server-nfpm.sh)
@@ -80,5 +80,4 @@ Just helps avoid clobbering .travis.yml.
   - Runs the full release process
   - Generates the npm package at `./release`
 - [./steps/static-release.sh](./steps/static-release.sh)
-  - Takes the output of the previous script and bundles it into a self-contained archive into `./github-release`
-  - Also outputs .deb/.rpm if on linux.
+  - Takes the output of the previous script and generates a static release and packages
diff --git a/ci/build/archive-static-release.sh b/ci/build/archive-static-release.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 37a85617..00000000
--- a/ci/build/archive-static-release.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-
-# Generates static code-server releases for CI.
-# This script assumes that a static release is built already.
-
-main() {
-  cd "$(dirname "${0}")/../.."
-  source ./ci/lib.sh
-
-  VERSION="$(pkg_json_version)"
-
-  local OS
-  OS="$(os)"
-
-  local ARCH
-  ARCH="$(arch)"
-
-  local archive_name="code-server-$VERSION-$OS-$ARCH"
-  mkdir -p release-github
-
-  local ext
-  if [[ $OS == "linux" ]]; then
-    ext=".tar.gz"
-    tar -czf "release-github/$archive_name$ext" --transform "s/^\.\/release-static/$archive_name/" ./release-static
-  else
-    mv ./release-static "./$archive_name"
-    ext=".zip"
-    zip -r "release-github/$archive_name$ext" "./$archive_name"
-    mv "./$archive_name" ./release-static
-  fi
-
-  echo "done (release-github/$archive_name)"
-
-  mkdir -p "release-gcp/$VERSION"
-  cp "release-github/$archive_name$ext" "./release-gcp/$VERSION/$OS-$ARCH$ext"
-  mkdir -p "release-gcp/latest"
-  cp "./release-github/$archive_name$ext" "./release-gcp/latest/$OS-$ARCH$ext"
-}
-
-main "$@"
diff --git a/ci/build/build-packages.sh b/ci/build/build-packages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..7dc65df0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/build/build-packages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Packages code-server for the current OS and architecture into ./release-packages.
+# This script assumes that a static release is built already into ./release-static.
+
+main() {
+  cd "$(dirname "${0}")/../.."
+  source ./ci/lib.sh
+
+  export VERSION
+  VERSION="$(pkg_json_version)"
+
+  local OS
+  OS="$(os)"
+
+  export ARCH
+  ARCH="$(arch)"
+
+  local archive_name="code-server-$VERSION-$OS-$ARCH"
+  mkdir -p release-packages
+
+  local ext
+  if [[ $OS == "linux" ]]; then
+    ext=".tar.gz"
+    tar -czf "release-packages/$archive_name$ext" --transform "s/^\.\/release-static/$archive_name/" ./release-static
+  else
+    mv ./release-static "./$archive_name"
+    ext=".zip"
+    zip -r "release-packages/$archive_name$ext" "./$archive_name"
+    mv "./$archive_name" ./release-static
+  fi
+
+  echo "done (release-packages/$archive_name)"
+
+  release_gcp
+
+  if [[ $OSTYPE == linux* ]]; then
+    release_nfpm
+  fi
+}
+
+release_gcp() {
+  mkdir -p "release-gcp/$VERSION"
+  cp "release-packages/$archive_name$ext" "./release-gcp/$VERSION/$OS-$ARCH$ext"
+  mkdir -p "release-gcp/latest"
+  cp "./release-packages/$archive_name$ext" "./release-gcp/latest/$OS-$ARCH$ext"
+}
+
+# Generates deb and rpm packages.
+release_nfpm() {
+  local nfpm_config
+  nfpm_config=$(envsubst < ./ci/build/nfpm.yaml)
+
+  nfpm pkg -f <(echo "$nfpm_config") --target release-packages/code-server-"$VERSION-$ARCH.deb"
+  nfpm pkg -f <(echo "$nfpm_config") --target release-packages/code-server-"$VERSION-$ARCH.rpm"
+}
+
+main "$@"
diff --git a/ci/build/build-release.sh b/ci/build/build-release.sh
index 0205488d..d96a466d 100755
--- a/ci/build/build-release.sh
+++ b/ci/build/build-release.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-# This script requires code-server and vscode to be built with matching MINIFY.
+# This script requires vscode to be built with matching MINIFY.
 
-# MINIFY controls whether minified vscode is bundled and whether
-# any included node_modules are pruned for production.
+# MINIFY controls whether minified vscode is bundled.
 MINIFY="${MINIFY-true}"
 
 main() {
diff --git a/ci/build/build-static-pkgs.sh b/ci/build/build-static-pkgs.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 659039ae..00000000
--- a/ci/build/build-static-pkgs.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-
-# Generates deb and rpm packages for CI.
-# Assumes a static release has already been built.
-
-main() {
-  cd "$(dirname "${0}")/../.."
-  source ./ci/lib.sh
-
-  VERSION="$(pkg_json_version)"
-  export VERSION
-
-  ARCH="$(arch)"
-  export ARCH
-
-  local nfpm_config
-  nfpm_config=$(envsubst < ./ci/build/nfpm.yaml)
-
-  nfpm pkg -f <(echo "$nfpm_config") --target release-github/code-server-"$VERSION-$ARCH.deb"
-  nfpm pkg -f <(echo "$nfpm_config") --target release-github/code-server-"$VERSION-$ARCH.rpm"
-}
-
-main "$@"
diff --git a/ci/build/lib.sh b/ci/build/lib.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/ci/build/test-static-release.sh b/ci/build/test-static-release.sh
index 02177fe3..93d9e991 100755
--- a/ci/build/test-static-release.sh
+++ b/ci/build/test-static-release.sh
@@ -7,14 +7,21 @@ set -euo pipefail
 main() {
   cd "$(dirname "${0}")/../.."
 
-  local output
-  output=$(./release-static/bin/code-server --list-extensions 2>&1)
-  if echo "$output" | grep 'was compiled against a different Node.js version'; then
-    echo "$output"
+  local EXTENSIONS_DIR
+  EXTENSIONS_DIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+
+  echo "Testing static release"
+
+  ./release-static/bin/code-server --extensions-dir "$EXTENSIONS_DIR" --install-extension ms-python.python
+  local installed_extensions
+  installed_extensions="$(./release-static/bin/code-server --extensions-dir "$EXTENSIONS_DIR" --list-extensions 2>&1)"
+  if [[ $installed_extensions != "ms-python.python" ]]; then
+    echo "Unexpected output from listing extensions:"
+    echo "$installed_extensions"
     exit 1
   fi
 
-  echo "Build ran successfully"
+  echo "Static release works correctly"
 }
 
 main "$@"
diff --git a/ci/release-container/Dockerfile b/ci/release-container/Dockerfile
index cafcea28..a0f20936 100644
--- a/ci/release-container/Dockerfile
+++ b/ci/release-container/Dockerfile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ RUN ARCH="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" && \
     mkdir -p /etc/fixuid && \
     printf "user: coder\ngroup: coder\n" > /etc/fixuid/config.yml
 
-COPY release-github/code-server*.deb /tmp/
+COPY release-packages/code-server*.deb /tmp/
 RUN dpkg -i /tmp/code-server*.deb && rm /tmp/code-server*.deb
 
 EXPOSE 8080
diff --git a/ci/steps/static-release.sh b/ci/steps/release-static.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 61%
rename from ci/steps/static-release.sh
rename to ci/steps/release-static.sh
index 62c5e8be..6d565421
--- a/ci/steps/static-release.sh
+++ b/ci/steps/release-static.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,7 @@ main() {
 
   yarn release:static
   ./ci/build/test-static-release.sh
-  ./ci/build/archive-static-release.sh
-
-  if [[ $OSTYPE == linux* ]]; then
-    yarn pkg
-  fi
+  yarn package
 }
 
 main "$@"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 461e42a0..b6a311c6 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     "build:vscode": "./ci/build/build-vscode.sh",
     "release": "./ci/build/build-release.sh",
     "release:static": "./ci/build/build-static-release.sh",
-    "pkg": "./ci/build/build-static-pkgs.sh",
+    "package": "./ci/build/build-packages.sh",
     "_____": "",
     "fmt": "./ci/dev/fmt.sh",
     "lint": "./ci/dev/lint.sh",