diff --git a/hack/release_notes/release_notes.sh b/hack/release_notes/release_notes.sh
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+# Copyright 2018 The Skaffold Authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# you can pass your github token with --token here if you run out of requests
+go run hack/release_notes/listpullreqs.go
+
+echo "Huge thank you for this release towards our contributors: "
+git log "$(git describe  --abbrev=0)".. --format="%aN" --reverse | sort | uniq | awk '{printf "- %s\n", $0 }'