diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 698162a6..ef02d6c7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -27,14 +27,11 @@ jobs:
         run: git fetch --prune --unshallow
 
       - name: 'Create Release Notes'
+        uses: sifive/action-release-notes@v1
         id: create-release-notes
-        run: |
-          tag=$(echo ${{ github.ref }} | cut -d '/' -f 3)
-          release_notes=$(./scripts/create-release-notes.sh ${{ env.PROJECT_NAME }} ${tag})
-          # The string passed to Actions must urlencode newlines.
-          release_notes="${release_notes//$'\n'/'%0A'}"
-          # Use a magic "workflow command" to set the output for the step.
-          echo "::set-output name=release-notes::${release_notes}"
+        with:
+          project-name: ${{ env.PROJECT_NAME }}
+          release: ${{ github.ref }}
 
       - name: 'Create Release'
         uses: actions/create-release@v1
diff --git a/scripts/create-release-notes.sh b/scripts/create-release-notes.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 8f858112..00000000
--- a/scripts/create-release-notes.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SiFive Inc.
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-if [ "$#" -lt 2 ] ; then
-  >&2 echo "$0: please provide project name and release tag"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-project=$1; shift 1;
-current_release=$1; shift 1;
-
-# Get the most recent previous tag with git-describe. If this is
-# the first tag in the repository, then this will return a commit
-# hash (because of the --always flag).
-last_release=$(git describe --tags --always HEAD~)
-
-echo "# Release notes for ${project} ${current_release}"
-echo "## Statistics since ${last_release}"
-echo "- $(git rev-list --count ${last_release}..HEAD) commits"
-echo "-$(git diff --shortstat ${last_release} HEAD)"
-echo ""
-echo "## Authors"
-git shortlog -s -n --no-merges ${last_release}..HEAD | cut -f 2
-echo ""
-echo "## Merge history"
-git log --merges --pretty=format:"%h %b" ${last_release}..HEAD