diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1c9440021654..72f1eaa283ee 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -158,9 +158,6 @@ snapshot: ## Builds and publishes snapshot release
 release: ## Builds and publishes stable release
 	$(WITH_GOFLAGS) ./hack/release/release.sh
 
-release-crd: ## Packages and publishes a karpenter-crd helm chart
-	$(WITH_GOFLAGS) ./hack/release/release-crd.sh
-
 prepare-website: ## prepare the website for release
 	./hack/release/prepare-website.sh
 
@@ -186,7 +183,7 @@ update-karpenter: ## Update kubernetes-sigs/karpenter to latest
 	go get -u sigs.k8s.io/karpenter@HEAD
 	go mod tidy
 
-.PHONY: help presubmit ci-test ci-non-test run test deflake e2etests e2etests-deflake benchmark coverage verify vulncheck licenses image apply install delete docgen codegen stable-release-pr snapshot release release-crd prepare-website toolchain issues website tidy download update-karpenter
+.PHONY: help presubmit ci-test ci-non-test run test deflake e2etests e2etests-deflake benchmark coverage verify vulncheck licenses image apply install delete docgen codegen stable-release-pr snapshot release prepare-website toolchain issues website tidy download update-karpenter
 
 define newline
 
diff --git a/hack/release/common.sh b/hack/release/common.sh
index 87a0f8602d71..9a8ca94d3ed3 100644
--- a/hack/release/common.sh
+++ b/hack/release/common.sh
@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 
-GITHUB_ACCOUNT="aws"
 ECR_GALLERY_NAME="karpenter"
 RELEASE_REPO_ECR="${RELEASE_REPO_ECR:-public.ecr.aws/${ECR_GALLERY_NAME}/}"
-RELEASE_REPO_GH="${RELEASE_REPO_GH:-ghcr.io/${GITHUB_ACCOUNT}/karpenter}"
 
 SNAPSHOT_ECR="021119463062.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
 SNAPSHOT_REPO_ECR="${SNAPSHOT_REPO_ECR:-${SNAPSHOT_ECR}/karpenter/snapshot/}"
 
 CURRENT_MAJOR_VERSION="0"
 
-MAIN_GITHUB_ACCOUNT="aws"
-
 snapshot() {
   local commit_sha version helm_chart_version
 
@@ -26,6 +22,7 @@ Commit: ${commit_sha}
 Helm Chart Version ${helm_chart_version}"
 
   authenticatePrivateRepo
+  echo "authenticated, now building"
   build "${SNAPSHOT_REPO_ECR}" "${version}" "${helm_chart_version}" "${commit_sha}"
 }
 
@@ -61,9 +58,12 @@ build() {
   helm_chart_version="${3}"
   commit_sha="${4}"
 
+  echo "calculating the date epoch"
   date_epoch="$(dateEpoch)"
+  echo "getting the build date"
   build_date="$(buildDate "${date_epoch}")"
 
+  echo "GOFLAGS=${GOFLAGS:-} SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=${date_epoch} KO_DATA_DATE_EPOCH=${date_epoch} KO_DOCKER_REPO=${oci_repo} ko publish -B -t ${version} ./cmd/controller"
   img="$(GOFLAGS=${GOFLAGS:-} SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="${date_epoch}" KO_DATA_DATE_EPOCH="${date_epoch}" KO_DOCKER_REPO="${oci_repo}" ko publish -B -t "${version}" ./cmd/controller)"
   img_repo="$(echo "${img}" | cut -d "@" -f 1 | cut -d ":" -f 1)"
   img_tag="$(echo "${img}" | cut -d "@" -f 1 | cut -d ":" -f 2 -s)"
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ publishHelmChart() {
   cd ..
 
   helm_chart_digest="$(crane digest "${oci_repo}/${helm_chart}:${version}")"
-  cosignOciArtifact "${version}" "${commit_sha}" "${build_date}" "${oci_repo}/${helm_chart}:${version}@${helm_chart_digest}"
+  cosignOciArtifact "${version}" "${commit_sha}" "${build_date}" "${oci_repo}${helm_chart}:${version}@${helm_chart_digest}"
 }
 
 cosignOciArtifact() {
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ buildDate() {
 
   date_epoch="${1}"
 
-  date -u -r "${date_epoch}" "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" 2>/dev/null
+  echo "got the date_epoch: ${date_epoch}"
+  date -u --date="@${date_epoch}" "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" 2>/dev/null
 }
 
 prepareWebsite() {
diff --git a/hack/release/release-crd.sh b/hack/release/release-crd.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index cced2a5d79a0..000000000000
--- a/hack/release/release-crd.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euo pipefail
-
-SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd)"
-# shellcheck source=hack/release/common.sh
-source "${SCRIPT_DIR}/common.sh"
-
-commit_sha="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
-git_tag="$(git describe --exact-match --tags || echo "no tag")"
-
-BUILD_DATE="$(buildDate "$(dateEpoch)")"
-
-publishHelmChart "${RELEASE_REPO_GH}" "karpenter-crd" "${commit_sha}" "${commit_sha}" "${BUILD_DATE}"
-
-if [[ "${git_tag}" == v* ]]; then
-  publishHelmChart "${RELEASE_REPO_GH}" "karpenter-crd" "${git_tag#v}" "${commit_sha}" "${BUILD_DATE}"
-fi