From the updated version of http://drupal.org/node/94151: "To help generate detailed and accurate release notes, you can use the cvs-release-notes.php [1] script (which lives in the / contributions/tricks/cvs-release-notes directory of the contributions repository). You just checkout a local copy of your project, and in the root directory of your project's source code, you run the script and provide the name of the CVS tag for the previous release and the current release. It will parse all the CVS log messages between the 2 releases, and print out an HTML version of all unique commit messages, sorted chronologically, with any references to #xxxxx replaced with a link to that issue number. You will need to further edit this list for clarity, remove entries that aren't relevant for end users of your project to know about, and so on, but it should help get you started." enjoy, -derek [1] http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/ tricks/cvs-release-notes/cvs-release-notes.php p.s. requires command-line cvs on your machine, doesn't work on windoze (don't even ask for it from me, either get a real OS or have someone else run it for you and pastebin the output or something), there's a list of TODO items in the comment at the top of the script if you're feeling imaginative, etc... ;) p.p.s: i just tried on core to see how beta-3 is coming along: % ../contributions/tricks/cvs-release-notes/cvs-release-notes.php DRUPAL-5-0-BETA-2 HEAD | wc 74 801 7060 ;) shazam, y'all have been busy...