Automatically create changelog / news page for last 5 releases using Jekyll and GitHub Pages

template.md

{%- assign releases = site.github.releases | where: "draft", false | sort: "tag_name" | reverse -%}

## [UNRELEASED]({{ site.github.repository_url }}/tree/master/)

[compare changes to last release]({{ site.github.repository_url }}/compare/{{ releases[0].tag_name }}...master#files_bucket "Compare changes in master for upcoming release")

{% for release in releases limit:5 %}

## [{{ release.name }}]({{ release.html_url }}) {% if release.prerelease -%}(pre-release){%- endif %}

Released <time datetime="{{ release.published_at | date_to_xmlschema }}">{{ release.published_at | date_to_string }}</time>
{% unless release.tag_name == "v0.0.1" -%}
([compare changes to previous release]({{ site.github.repository_url }}/compare/{{ releases[forloop.index].tag_name }}...{{ release.tag_name }}#files_bucket "Compare changes between release versions {{ releases[forloop.index].tag_name }} and {{ release.tag_name }}"))
{%- endunless %}

{{ release.body }}

{% endfor %}

I use this approach in this github page (source). In this example I even access the newest release draft information (including the designated tag name and release notes), which is exposed via the site.github namespace too.