diff --git a/doc/dev/release b/doc/dev/release
index c0a3ebb6bd..b5c07c95f9 100644
--- a/doc/dev/release
+++ b/doc/dev/release
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Copyright (C) 2004, 2005  Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
 Copyright (C) 2000-2003  Internet Software Consortium.
 See COPYRIGHT in the source root or http://isc.org/copyright.html for terms.
 
-$Id: release,v 1.65 2005/10/12 00:50:18 marka Exp $
+$Id: release,v 1.66 2005/10/12 01:33:01 marka Exp $
 
 Preparing a bind9 release
 
@@ -164,8 +164,7 @@ release.
    $ old_patch=bind-9.x.y-patch
    $ new_patch=bind-9.x.z-patch
    $ files=`awk '/^Index:/ && NF == 2 {print $2}' $patchd/$old_patch`
-   $ missing=`cvs log -R $files 2>&1 >/dev/null | \
-              awk '/^cvs (log|server): nothing known about/ {print $6}'`
+   $ missing=`cvs status $files | awk '/Status: Unknown/ { print $2; }'`
    $ sed '/^Index:/,$d' $patchd/$old_patch > $patchd/$new_patch
    $ for i in $missing; \
        do echo Index: $i; diff -u /dev/null $i; done >> $patchd/$new_patch