diff --git a/.ci/generate-releases-xml.sh b/.ci/generate-releases-xml.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..718d4d351ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/generate-releases-xml.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+
+SRM_RPM_NAME=`ls /home/marina/dcache/modules/srm-client/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ | grep dcache-srmclient`
+SRM_RPM_SUM=`md5sum /home/marina/dcache/modules/srm-client/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/$SRM_RPM_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+DEB_NAME=`ls /home/marina/dcache/packages/fhs/target/ | grep dcache`
+DEB_SUM=`md5sum /home/marina/dcache/packages/fhs/target/$DEB_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+TAR_NAME=`ls /home/marina/dcache/packages/tar/target/ | grep dcache`
+TAR_SUM=`md5sum /home/marina/dcache/packages/tar/target/$TAR_NAME | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
+RPM_NAME=`ls /home/marina/dcache/packages/fhs/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ | grep dcache`
+RPM_SUM=`md5sum /home/marina/dcache/packages/fhs/target/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/$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   | $SRM_RPM_SUM |"
+
+echo ; echo; echo
+git log `git describe --tags --abbrev=0`...`git describe --tags --abbrev=0 HEAD^` --no-merges --format='[%h](https://github.com/dcache/dcache/commit/%H)%n:    %s%n'
+
+
+
+my_string="10.0.13"
+before_last_dot=$(echo "$my_string" | rev | cut -d'.' -f2- | rev)
+echo "$before_last_dot"
+
+
+
+series=$(echo "$my_string" | rev | cut -d'.' -f2- | rev)
+echo "TES series $series"
+
+
+get_series() { # $1 dCache version
+    echo ${my_string%%.*([0-9])}
+}
+
+get_bugfix() { # $1 dCache version
+    echo ${my_string##*([0-9]).*([0-9]).}
+}
+
+echo "TEST 1 ${my_string##*([0-9]).*([0-9]).}"
+
+echo "Test 2 ${my_string%%.*([0-9])}"
+
+file="releases-$(echo $series).html"
+echo "test html file name $file"
+
+update_releases() { # $1 - dCache version
+	# old web pages
+	#[ -z ${date+x} ] || date_param="--stringparam date $date"
+  #  xsltproc --stringparam version $1 $date_param --stringparam checksums-path "$(pwd)" $share/update-releases.xsl releases.xml > out.xml
+  #  mv out.xml releases.xml
+
+	# new web pages
+    [ -z ${date} ] && date=$(date +%d.%m.%Y)
+	series=$(get_series $my_string)
+	bugfix=$(get_bugfix $my_string)
+	file="releases-$(echo $series).html"
+
+	echo "test file name $file"
+
+
+	# replace rec (= recent version, green highlighted) with even or odd
+	# if newest version is odd, the last version was even and vice versa
+	even_odd="odd"
+	mod=$((13 % 2))
+	[ $mod -eq "0" ] || even_odd="even"
+
+	tmp_file="$file.tmp"
+	touch $tmp_file
+	sed "s/rec/${even_odd}/" $file > $tmp_file
+
+	mv $tmp_file $file
+
+	echo "TEST $tmp_file"
+
+		echo $file
+
+echo
+
+	# write new table entry on top
+	cat > releases.xml << EOF
+
+	<div class="test">
+      <style>
+        table.releases tbody tr.rec { background-color: #9f9; }
+      	table.releases tbody tr.odd { background-color: #e8f6f8; }
+      	table.releases tbody tr.even { background-color: #d0e5e8; }
+      </style>
+
+ <table border="1">
+   <thead>
+ 	<tr>
+ 	    <th>Download</th>
+ 	    <th>Rel. Date</th>
+ 	    <th>md5 hash</th>
+ 	    <th>Release Notes</th>
+     	</tr>
+ 	</thead>
+   <!-- First Row -->
+   <tr class="rec" id="$my_string">
+     <td class="link">
+       <a href="/old/downloads/1.9/repo/$series/$DEB_NAME">
+         dCache $my_string (Debian package)
+       </a>
+     </td>
+     <td class="date">$DATE</td>
+     <td class="hash">$DEB_SUM</td>
+     <td class="notes" rowspan="3">
+       <a href="/old/downloads/1.9/release-notes-$series.shtml#release$my_string">
+         $my_string
+       </a>
+     </td>
+   </tr>
+
+   <!-- Second Row -->
+   <tr class="rec">
+     <td class="link">
+       <a href="/old/downloads/1.9/repo/$series/$RPM_NAME">
+         dCache $my_string (rpm)
+       </a>
+     </td>
+     <td class="date">$DATE</td>
+     <td class="hash">$RPM_SUM</td>
+   </tr>
+
+   <!-- Third Row -->
+   <tr class="rec">
+     <td class="link">
+       <a href="/old/downloads/1.9/repo/$series/$TAR_NAME">
+         dCache $my_string (tgz)
+       </a>
+     </td>
+     <td class="date">$DATE</td>
+     <td class="hash">$TAR_SUM</td>
+   </tr>
+ </table>
+</div>
+EOF
+
+# Add old table entries below the new one
+cat $file >> $tmp_file
+mv $tmp_file $file
+}
+
+update_releases
+
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index dbe0a4b755d..33a972caa94 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -398,6 +398,30 @@ AI Generated Release Notes:
     paths:
       - release-*.md
 
+
+#
+# Prepare releases download table in html format
+#
+Release Notes Table:
+  image: almalinux:9-minimal
+  stage: upload
+  extends: .upload_rules
+  allow_failure: true
+  dependencies:
+    - sign_deb
+    - sign_rpm
+    - sign_srm_client_rpm
+    - tar
+  script:
+    - microdnf install -y git-core
+    - git fetch --refetch --all --tags
+    - .ci/generate-releases-xml.sh >> release-$CI_COMMIT_TAG.xml
+
+        #tee -a release-$CI_COMMIT_TAG.md
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - release1-*.md
+
 #
 # prepare kubernetes env for the build
 #