diff --git a/release-candidate.sh b/release-candidate.sh
index b481eb5..f1c6b25 100755
--- a/release-candidate.sh
+++ b/release-candidate.sh
@@ -1,32 +1,76 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 export LC_ALL=C
-LABEL=$1
 # Remove the label from arguments. It gets special treatment. Other arguments
 # to the script are passed to pungi-koji directly.
+LABEL=$1
 shift
 CONFIG="fedora-final.conf"
-TARGET_DIR="/mnt/koji/compose/26"
-#OLD_COMPOSES_DIR="--old-composes=/mnt/fedora_koji/compose/f23 --old-composes=$TARGET_DIR"
+FEDORA_VERSION="${LABEL%%_*}"
+TARGET_DIR="/mnt/koji/compose/${FEDORA_VERSION}"
+#OLD_COMPOSES_DIR="--old-composes=/mnt/fedora_koji/compose/f23 --old-composes=${TARGET_DIR}"
 NIGHTLY=""
 SKIP_PHASES="--skip-phase=productimg"
 DEST=$(pwd)
 DATE=$(date "+%Y%m%d")
-COMPSFILE="comps-f26.xml"
-TMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/fedoraRC.$DATE.XXXX`
-# uncomment and edit for resuming a failed compose
-#COMPOSE_ID="Fedora-23-20150530.n.0"
-pushd $TMPDIR
+COMPSFILE="comps-f39.xml"
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/fedoraRC."${DATE}".XXXX)
+RELEASE="f39"
+SHORT="Fedora"
+RSYNCPREFIX="sudo -u ftpsync"
+RSYNCTARGET="/pub/alt/stage/${LABEL}"
+# Uncomment and edit for resuming a failed compose, e.g. "COMPOSE_ID="Fedora-23-20150530.n.0"
+# COMPOSE_ID="Fedora-23-20150530.n.0"
+
+# Set up our fedora messaging function, using the releng repo definition
+FEDMSG_MODNAME="compose"
+FEDMSG_CERTPREFIX="releng"
+. ./releng/scripts/fedora-messaging.sh
+
+# Announce that we are starting, even though we don't know the compose_id yet..
+fedora_message_json_start=$(printf '{"log": "start", "branch": "%s", "arch": "%s", "short": "%s"}' "$RELEASE" "$ARCH" "$SHORT")
+send_fedora_message "${fedora_message_json_start}" ${RELEASE} start
+
+# Public URL the synced compose will wind up at, we put them in fedora-messaging
+LOCATION="https://dl.fedoraproject.org$RSYNCTARGET"
+
+# Update fedora_message template
+fedora_message_json_start=$(printf '{"log": "start", "branch": "%s", "arch": "%s", "short": "%s", "compose_id": "%s", "location"}' "$RELEASE" "$ARCH" "$SHORT" "$LOCATION")
+fedora_message_json_done=$(printf '{"log": "done", "branch": "%s", "arch": "%s", "short": "%s", "location": "%s"}' "$RELEASE" "$ARCH" "$SHORT" "$LOCATION")
+
+pushd "${TMPDIR}"
 git clone https://pagure.io/fedora-comps.git && {
     pushd fedora-comps
     make "${COMPSFILE}"
-    cp "${COMPSFILE}" $DEST/
+    cp "${COMPSFILE}" "${DEST}"/
     popd
 }
 popd
-CMD="pungi-koji --notification-script=/usr/bin/pungi-fedmsg-notification --notification-script=pungi-wait-for-signed-ostree-handler --config=$CONFIG --old-composes=$TARGET_DIR $OLD_COMPOSES_DIR $NIGHTLY $SKIP_PHASES --label=$LABEL"
-if [ -z "$COMPOSE_ID" ]; then
-    CMD="$CMD --target-dir=$TARGET_DIR"
+
+CMD="pungi-koji --notification-script=/usr/bin/pungi-fedmsg-notification \
+    --notification-script=pungi-wait-for-signed-ostree-handler \
+    --config=${CONFIG} --old-composes=${TARGET_DIR} ${OLD_COMPOSES_DIR} ${NIGHTLY} ${SKIP_PHASES} \
+    --label=${LABEL}"
+
+if [ -z "${COMPOSE_ID}" ]; then
+    CMD="${CMD} --target-dir=${TARGET_DIR}"
 else
-    CMD="$CMD --debug-mode --compose-dir=$TARGET_DIR/$COMPOSE_ID"
+    CMD="${CMD} --debug-mode --compose-dir=${TARGET_DIR}/${COMPOSE_ID}"
 fi
-time $CMD "$@"
+
+time "$CMD" "$@"
+
+# Tell interested persons that the rsync is starting
+send_fedora_message "${fedora_message_json_start}" ${RELEASE} rsync.start
+
+if [ ! -d "${RSYNCTARGET}" ]; then
+    $(RSYNCPREFIX) mkdir -m 750 -p "${RSYNCTARGET}"
+fi
+
+# Note from documentation:
+# If multiple composes are run like 1.2, 1.3, add multiple --link-dest arguments above with multiple composes
+${RSYNCPREFIX} sh -c 'for dir in Everything Cloud Container Kinoite Labs Modular Server Silverblue Spins Workstation Onyx Sericea metadata; do rsync -avhH ${TARGET_DIR}/${COMPOSE_ID}/compose/$dir/ ${RSYNCTARGET}/$dir/ --link-dest=/pub/fedora/linux/development/${FEDORA_VERSION}/Everything/ --link-dest=${RSYNCTARGET}/Everything/; done'
+
+${RSYNCPREFIX} chmod 755 "${RSYNCTARGET}"
+
+# Let interested persons know the rsync is complete
+send_fedora_message "${fedora_message_json_done}" ${RELEASE} rsync.complete