diff --git a/.ci/generate-changelog.sh b/.ci/generate-changelog.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..2aec8091672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/generate-changelog.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+
+SRM_RPM_NAME=`ls modules/srm-client/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ | grep dcache-srmclient`
+SRM_RPM_SUM=`md5sum modules/srm-client/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/$SRM_RPM_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+DEB_NAME=`ls packages/fhs/target/ | grep dcache`
+DEB_SUM=`md5sum packages/fhs/target/$DEB_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+TAR_NAME=`ls packages/tar/target/ | grep dcache`
+TAR_SUM=`md5sum packages/tar/target/$TAR_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+RPM_NAME=`ls packages/fhs/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ | grep dcache`
+RPM_SUM=`md5sum packages/fhs/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/$RPM_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+DATE=`date +"%Y.%m.%d"`
+
+echo "| Download   | Build date | md5 sum  |"
+echo "|:-----------|:-----------|----------|"
+echo "| $RPM_NAME  | $DATE      | $RPM_SUM |"
+echo "| $DEB_NAME  | $DATE      | $DEB_SUM |"
+echo "| $TAR_NAME  | $DATE      | $TAR_SUM |"
+echo "| $SRM_RPM_NAME | $DATE   | $SRM_RPM_SUM |"
+
+echo ; echo; echo
+git log `git describe --tags --abbrev=0`...`git describe --tags --abbrev=0 HEAD^` --no-merges --format='[%h](https://github.com/dcache/dcache/commit/%H)%n:    %s%n'
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diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index e4f3724ffcb..4aea543d9b8 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -316,6 +316,26 @@ upload_container:
       --context $CI_PROJECT_DIR
       --dockerfile $CI_PROJECT_DIR/Dockerfile
       --destination dcache/dcache:$tag
+
+#
+# This jobs needs that the number of changes to fetch from GitLab when cloning a repository is high enough to generate
+# the changelog.
+Generate release notes:
+  image: almalinux:9-minimal
+  stage: upload
+  extends: .upload_rules
+  dependencies:
+    - sign_deb
+    - sign_rpm
+    - sign_srm_client_rpm
+    - tar
+  script:
+    - microdnf install -y git-core
+    - .ci/generate-changelog.sh >> release-$CI_COMMIT_TAG.md
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - release-*.md
+
 #
 # prepare kubernetes env for the build
 #