diff --git a/bamboo-specs/release.yaml b/bamboo-specs/release.yaml
index a43dca2b..bfdfff3b 100644
--- a/bamboo-specs/release.yaml
+++ b/bamboo-specs/release.yaml
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@
                 CHANNEL=${bamboo.channel}\
                 GPG_KEY_PASSPHRASE=${bamboo.gpgPassword}\
                 FRONTEND_PREBUILT=1\
-                VERBOSE=1\
+                PARALLELISM=1\
+                VERBOSE=2\
                 build-release
   # TODO(a.garipov): Use more fine-grained artifact rules.
   'artifacts':
diff --git a/scripts/make/build-docker.sh b/scripts/make/build-docker.sh
index 917e7771..38b1ea30 100644
--- a/scripts/make/build-docker.sh
+++ b/scripts/make/build-docker.sh
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ in
 esac
 readonly docker_image_full_name docker_tags
 
-# Copy the binaries into a new directory under new names, so that it's eaiser to
+# Copy the binaries into a new directory under new names, so that it's easier to
 # COPY them later.  DO NOT remove the trailing underscores.  See file
 # scripts/make/Dockerfile.
 dist_docker="${dist_dir}/docker"
diff --git a/scripts/make/build-release.sh b/scripts/make/build-release.sh
index 1c8cb9c0..72ba8aeb 100644
--- a/scripts/make/build-release.sh
+++ b/scripts/make/build-release.sh
@@ -7,22 +7,18 @@
 # Experienced readers may find it overly verbose.
 
 # The default verbosity level is 0.  Show log messages if the caller requested
-# verbosity level greater than 0.  Show every command that is run if the
-# verbosity level is greater than 1.  Show the environment if the verbosity
-# level is greater than 2.  Otherwise, print nothing.
+# verbosity level greater than 0.  Show the environment and every command that
+# is run if the verbosity level is greater than 1.  Otherwise, print nothing.
 #
 # The level of verbosity for the build script is the same minus one level.  See
 # below in build().
 verbose="${VERBOSE:-0}"
 readonly verbose
 
-if [ "$verbose" -gt '2' ]
+if [ "$verbose" -gt '1' ]
 then
 	env
 	set -x
-elif [ "$verbose" -gt '1' ]
-then
-	set -x
 fi
 
 # By default, sign the packages, but allow users to skip that step.
@@ -188,9 +184,6 @@ build() {
 	#
 	# Set GOARM and GOMIPS to an empty string if $build_arm and $build_mips are
 	# the zero value by removing the hyphen as if it's a prefix.
-	#
-	# Don't use quotes with $build_par because we want an empty space if
-	# parallelism wasn't set.
 	env\
 		GOARCH="$build_arch"\
 		GOARM="${build_arm#-}"\