diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c7c80fc48264d1..32377ec0f1ffe8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -52,3 +52,7 @@ npm-debug.log*
 # apm plugin
 /x-pack/plugins/apm/tsconfig.json
 apm.tsconfig.json
+
+# release notes script output
+report.csv
+report.asciidoc
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c21ca540db16f4..63bf083274b2d2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@
     "@kbn/expect": "1.0.0",
     "@kbn/optimizer": "1.0.0",
     "@kbn/plugin-generator": "1.0.0",
+    "@kbn/release-notes": "1.0.0",
     "@kbn/test": "1.0.0",
     "@kbn/utility-types": "1.0.0",
     "@microsoft/api-documenter": "7.7.2",
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/package.json b/packages/kbn-release-notes/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..25e1816b6cc1ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "name": "@kbn/release-notes",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "main": "target/index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "kbn:bootstrap": "tsc",
+    "kbn:watch": "tsc --watch"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@kbn/dev-utils": "1.0.0",
+    "axios": "^0.19.2",
+    "cheerio": "0.22.0",
+    "dedent": "^0.7.0",
+    "graphql": "^14.0.0",
+    "graphql-tag": "^2.10.3",
+    "terminal-link": "^2.1.1"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "markdown-it": "^10.0.0",
+    "typescript": "3.9.5"
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/cli.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/cli.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..44b4a7a0282d20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/cli.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import Fs from 'fs';
+import Path from 'path';
+import { inspect } from 'util';
+
+import { run, createFlagError, createFailError, REPO_ROOT } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+
+import { FORMATS, SomeFormat } from './formats';
+import {
+  iterRelevantPullRequests,
+  getPr,
+  Version,
+  ClassifiedPr,
+  streamFromIterable,
+  asyncPipeline,
+  IrrelevantPrSummary,
+  isPrRelevant,
+  classifyPr,
+} from './lib';
+
+const rootPackageJson = JSON.parse(
+  Fs.readFileSync(Path.resolve(REPO_ROOT, 'package.json'), 'utf8')
+);
+const extensions = FORMATS.map((f) => f.extension);
+
+export function runReleaseNotesCli() {
+  run(
+    async ({ flags, log }) => {
+      const token = flags.token;
+      if (!token || typeof token !== 'string') {
+        throw createFlagError('--token must be defined');
+      }
+
+      const version = Version.fromFlag(flags.version);
+      if (!version) {
+        throw createFlagError('unable to parse --version, use format "v{major}.{minor}.{patch}"');
+      }
+
+      const includeVersions = Version.fromFlags(flags.include || []);
+      if (!includeVersions) {
+        throw createFlagError('unable to parse --include, use format "v{major}.{minor}.{patch}"');
+      }
+
+      const Formats: SomeFormat[] = [];
+      for (const flag of Array.isArray(flags.format) ? flags.format : [flags.format]) {
+        const Format = FORMATS.find((F) => F.extension === flag);
+        if (!Format) {
+          throw createFlagError(`--format must be one of "${extensions.join('", "')}"`);
+        }
+        Formats.push(Format);
+      }
+
+      const filename = flags.filename;
+      if (!filename || typeof filename !== 'string') {
+        throw createFlagError('--filename must be a string');
+      }
+
+      if (flags['debug-pr']) {
+        const number = parseInt(String(flags['debug-pr']), 10);
+        if (Number.isNaN(number)) {
+          throw createFlagError('--debug-pr must be a pr number when specified');
+        }
+
+        const summary = new IrrelevantPrSummary(log);
+        const pr = await getPr(token, number);
+        log.success(
+          inspect(
+            {
+              version: version.label,
+              includeVersions: includeVersions.map((v) => v.label),
+              isPrRelevant: isPrRelevant(pr, version, includeVersions, summary),
+              ...classifyPr(pr, log),
+              pr,
+            },
+            { depth: 100 }
+          )
+        );
+        summary.logStats();
+        return;
+      }
+
+      log.info(`Loading all PRs with label [${version.label}] to build release notes...`);
+
+      const summary = new IrrelevantPrSummary(log);
+      const prsToReport: ClassifiedPr[] = [];
+      const prIterable = iterRelevantPullRequests(token, version, log);
+      for await (const pr of prIterable) {
+        if (!isPrRelevant(pr, version, includeVersions, summary)) {
+          continue;
+        }
+        prsToReport.push(classifyPr(pr, log));
+      }
+      summary.logStats();
+
+      if (!prsToReport.length) {
+        throw createFailError(
+          `All PRs with label [${version.label}] were filtered out by the config. Run again with --debug for more info.`
+        );
+      }
+
+      log.info(`Found ${prsToReport.length} prs to report on`);
+
+      for (const Format of Formats) {
+        const format = new Format(version, prsToReport, log);
+        const outputPath = Path.resolve(`${filename}.${Format.extension}`);
+        await asyncPipeline(streamFromIterable(format.print()), Fs.createWriteStream(outputPath));
+        log.success(`[${Format.extension}] report written to ${outputPath}`);
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      usage: `node scripts/release_notes --token {token} --version {version}`,
+      flags: {
+        alias: {
+          version: 'v',
+          include: 'i',
+        },
+        string: ['token', 'version', 'format', 'filename', 'include', 'debug-pr'],
+        default: {
+          filename: 'report',
+          version: rootPackageJson.version,
+          format: extensions,
+        },
+        help: `
+          --token            (required) The Github access token to use for requests
+          --version, -v      The version to fetch PRs by, PRs with version labels prior to
+                             this one will be ignored (see --include-version) (default ${
+                               rootPackageJson.version
+                             })
+          --include, -i      A version that is before --version but shouldn't be considered
+                             "released" and cause PRs with a matching label to be excluded from
+                             release notes. Use this when PRs are labeled with a version that
+                             is less that --version and is expected to be released after
+                             --version, can be specified multiple times.
+          --format           Only produce a certain format, options: "${extensions.join('", "')}"
+          --filename         Output filename, defaults to "report"
+          --debug-pr         Fetch and print the details for a single PR, disabling reporting
+        `,
+      },
+      description: `
+        Fetch details from Github PRs for generating release notes
+      `,
+    }
+  );
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/asciidoc.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/asciidoc.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..d6c707f009f323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/asciidoc.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import dedent from 'dedent';
+
+import { Format } from './format';
+import {
+  ASCIIDOC_SECTIONS,
+  UNKNOWN_ASCIIDOC_SECTION,
+  AREAS,
+  UNKNOWN_AREA,
+} from '../release_notes_config';
+
+function* lines(body: string) {
+  for (const line of dedent(body).split('\n')) {
+    yield `${line}\n`;
+  }
+}
+
+export class AsciidocFormat extends Format {
+  static extension = 'asciidoc';
+
+  *print() {
+    const sortedAreas = [
+      ...AREAS.slice().sort((a, b) => a.title.localeCompare(b.title)),
+      UNKNOWN_AREA,
+    ];
+
+    yield* lines(`
+      [[release-notes-${this.version.label}]]
+      == ${this.version.label} Release Notes
+
+      Also see <<breaking-changes-${this.version.major}.${this.version.minor}>>.
+    `);
+
+    for (const section of [...ASCIIDOC_SECTIONS, UNKNOWN_ASCIIDOC_SECTION]) {
+      const prsInSection = this.prs.filter((pr) => pr.asciidocSection === section);
+      if (!prsInSection.length) {
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      yield '\n';
+      yield* lines(`
+        [float]
+        [[${section.id}-${this.version.label}]]
+        === ${section.title}
+      `);
+
+      for (const area of sortedAreas) {
+        const prsInArea = prsInSection.filter((pr) => pr.area === area);
+
+        if (!prsInArea.length) {
+          continue;
+        }
+
+        yield `${area.title}::\n`;
+        for (const pr of prsInArea) {
+          const fixes = pr.fixes.length ? `[Fixes ${pr.fixes.join(', ')}] ` : '';
+          const strippedTitle = pr.title.replace(/^\s*\[[^\]]+\]\s*/, '');
+          yield `* ${fixes}${strippedTitle} {pull}${pr.number}[#${pr.number}]\n`;
+          if (pr.note) {
+            yield `  - ${pr.note}\n`;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/csv.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/csv.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0cf99edada696e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/csv.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import { Format } from './format';
+
+/**
+ * Escape a value to conform to field and header encoding defined at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180
+ */
+function esc(value: string | number) {
+  if (typeof value === 'number') {
+    return String(value);
+  }
+
+  if (!value.includes(',') && !value.includes('\n') && !value.includes('"')) {
+    return value;
+  }
+
+  return `"${value.split('"').join('""')}"`;
+}
+
+function row(...fields: Array<string | number>) {
+  return fields.map(esc).join(',') + '\r\n';
+}
+
+export class CsvFormat extends Format {
+  static extension = 'csv';
+
+  *print() {
+    // columns
+    yield row(
+      'areas',
+      'versions',
+      'user',
+      'title',
+      'number',
+      'url',
+      'date',
+      'fixes',
+      'labels',
+      'state'
+    );
+
+    for (const pr of this.prs) {
+      yield row(
+        pr.area.title,
+        pr.versions.map((v) => v.label).join(', '),
+        pr.user.name || pr.user.login,
+        pr.title,
+        pr.number,
+        pr.url,
+        pr.mergedAt,
+        pr.fixes.join(', '),
+        pr.labels.join(', '),
+        pr.state
+      );
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/format.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/format.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..41b769ab05de77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/format.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { ToolingLog } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+
+import { Version, ClassifiedPr } from '../lib';
+
+export abstract class Format {
+  static extension: string;
+
+  constructor(
+    protected readonly version: Version,
+    protected readonly prs: ClassifiedPr[],
+    protected readonly log: ToolingLog
+  ) {}
+
+  abstract print(): Iterator<string>;
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/index.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..3403e445a84ac7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/formats/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { ArrayItem } from '../lib';
+import { AsciidocFormat } from './asciidoc';
+import { CsvFormat } from './csv';
+
+export const FORMATS = [CsvFormat, AsciidocFormat] as const;
+export type SomeFormat = ArrayItem<typeof FORMATS>;
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/index.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a05bc698bde174
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+export * from './cli';
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/classify_pr.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/classify_pr.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c567935ab7e480
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/classify_pr.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { ToolingLog } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+
+import {
+  Area,
+  AREAS,
+  UNKNOWN_AREA,
+  AsciidocSection,
+  ASCIIDOC_SECTIONS,
+  UNKNOWN_ASCIIDOC_SECTION,
+} from '../release_notes_config';
+import { PullRequest } from './pull_request';
+
+export interface ClassifiedPr extends PullRequest {
+  area: Area;
+  asciidocSection: AsciidocSection;
+}
+
+export function classifyPr(pr: PullRequest, log: ToolingLog): ClassifiedPr {
+  const filter = (a: Area | AsciidocSection) =>
+    a.labels.some((test) =>
+      typeof test === 'string' ? pr.labels.includes(test) : pr.labels.some((l) => l.match(test))
+    );
+
+  const areas = AREAS.filter(filter);
+  const asciidocSections = ASCIIDOC_SECTIONS.filter(filter);
+
+  const pickOne = <T extends Area | AsciidocSection>(name: string, options: T[]) => {
+    if (options.length > 1) {
+      const matches = options.map((o) => o.title).join(', ');
+      log.warning(`[${pr.terminalLink}] ambiguous ${name}, mulitple match [${matches}]`);
+      return options[0];
+    }
+
+    if (options.length === 0) {
+      log.error(`[${pr.terminalLink}] unable to determine ${name} because none match`);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    return options[0];
+  };
+
+  return {
+    ...pr,
+    area: pickOne('area', areas) || UNKNOWN_AREA,
+    asciidocSection: pickOne('asciidoc section', asciidocSections) || UNKNOWN_ASCIIDOC_SECTION,
+  };
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.test.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..bdac66f6cc02f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { getFixReferences } from './get_fix_references';
+
+it('returns all fixed issue mentions in the PR text', () => {
+  expect(
+    getFixReferences(`
+      clOses #1
+      closes: #2
+      clOse #3
+      close: #4
+      clOsed #5
+      closed: #6
+      fiX #7
+      fix: #8
+      fiXes #9
+      fixes: #10
+      fiXed #11
+      fixed: #12
+      reSolve #13
+      resolve: #14
+      reSolves #15
+      resolves: #16
+      reSolved #17
+      resolved: #18
+      fixed
+      #19
+    `)
+  ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Array [
+      "#1",
+      "#2",
+      "#3",
+      "#4",
+      "#5",
+      "#6",
+      "#7",
+      "#8",
+      "#9",
+      "#10",
+      "#11",
+      "#12",
+      "#13",
+      "#14",
+      "#15",
+      "#16",
+      "#17",
+      "#18",
+    ]
+  `);
+});
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f45994e90ae899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_fix_references.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+const FIXES_RE = /(?:closes|close|closed|fix|fixes|fixed|resolve|resolves|resolved)[ :]*(#\d*)/gi;
+
+export function getFixReferences(prText: string) {
+  const fixes: string[] = [];
+  let match;
+  while ((match = FIXES_RE.exec(prText))) {
+    fixes.push(match[1]);
+  }
+  return fixes;
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.test.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..23dcb302f090d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
+import dedent from 'dedent';
+
+import { getNoteFromDescription } from './get_note_from_description';
+
+it('extracts expected components from html', () => {
+  const mk = new MarkdownIt();
+
+  expect(
+    getNoteFromDescription(
+      mk.render(dedent`
+        My PR description
+
+        Fixes: #1234
+
+        ## Release Note:
+
+        Checkout this feature
+      `)
+    )
+  ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Checkout this feature"`);
+
+  expect(
+    getNoteFromDescription(
+      mk.render(dedent`
+        My PR description
+
+        Fixes: #1234
+
+        #### Release Note:
+
+        We fixed an issue
+      `)
+    )
+  ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"We fixed an issue"`);
+
+  expect(
+    getNoteFromDescription(
+      mk.render(dedent`
+        My PR description
+
+        Fixes: #1234
+
+        Release note: Checkout feature foo
+      `)
+    )
+  ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"Checkout feature foo"`);
+
+  expect(
+    getNoteFromDescription(
+      mk.render(dedent`
+        # Summary
+
+        My PR description
+
+           release note : bar
+      `)
+    )
+  ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"bar"`);
+});
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..57df203470a5a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/get_note_from_description.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import cheerio from 'cheerio';
+
+export function getNoteFromDescription(descriptionHtml: string) {
+  const $ = cheerio.load(descriptionHtml);
+  for (const el of $('p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5').toArray()) {
+    const text = $(el).text();
+    const match = text.match(/^(\s*release note(?:s)?\s*:?\s*)/i);
+
+    if (!match) {
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const note = text.replace(match[1], '').trim();
+    return note || $(el).next().text().trim();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/index.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..00d8f49cf763fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+export * from './pull_request';
+export * from './version';
+export * from './is_pr_relevant';
+export * from './streams';
+export * from './type_helpers';
+export * from './irrelevant_pr_summary';
+export * from './classify_pr';
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/irrelevant_pr_summary.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/irrelevant_pr_summary.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..1a458a04c7740d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/irrelevant_pr_summary.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { ToolingLog } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+
+import { PullRequest } from './pull_request';
+import { Version } from './version';
+
+export class IrrelevantPrSummary {
+  private readonly stats = {
+    'skipped by label': new Map<string, number>(),
+    'skipped by label regexp': new Map<string, number>(),
+    'skipped by version': new Map<string, number>(),
+  };
+
+  constructor(private readonly log: ToolingLog) {}
+
+  skippedByLabel(pr: PullRequest, label: string) {
+    this.log.debug(`${pr.terminalLink} skipped, label [${label}] is ignored`);
+    this.increment('skipped by label', label);
+  }
+
+  skippedByLabelRegExp(pr: PullRequest, regexp: RegExp, label: string) {
+    this.log.debug(`${pr.terminalLink} skipped, label [${label}] matches regexp [${regexp}]`);
+    this.increment('skipped by label regexp', `${regexp}`);
+  }
+
+  skippedByVersion(pr: PullRequest, earliestVersion: Version) {
+    this.log.debug(`${pr.terminalLink} skipped, earliest version is [${earliestVersion.label}]`);
+    this.increment('skipped by version', earliestVersion.label);
+  }
+
+  private increment(stat: keyof IrrelevantPrSummary['stats'], key: string) {
+    const n = this.stats[stat].get(key) || 0;
+    this.stats[stat].set(key, n + 1);
+  }
+
+  logStats() {
+    for (const [description, stats] of Object.entries(this.stats)) {
+      for (const [key, count] of stats) {
+        this.log.warning(`${count} ${count === 1 ? 'pr was' : 'prs were'} ${description} [${key}]`);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/is_pr_relevant.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/is_pr_relevant.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..af2ef9440dedeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/is_pr_relevant.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { Version } from './version';
+import { PullRequest } from './pull_request';
+import { IGNORE_LABELS } from '../release_notes_config';
+import { IrrelevantPrSummary } from './irrelevant_pr_summary';
+
+export function isPrRelevant(
+  pr: PullRequest,
+  version: Version,
+  includeVersions: Version[],
+  summary: IrrelevantPrSummary
+) {
+  for (const label of IGNORE_LABELS) {
+    if (typeof label === 'string') {
+      if (pr.labels.includes(label)) {
+        summary.skippedByLabel(pr, label);
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (label instanceof RegExp) {
+      const matching = pr.labels.find((l) => label.test(l));
+      if (matching) {
+        summary.skippedByLabelRegExp(pr, label, matching);
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  const [earliestVersion] = Version.sort(
+    // filter out `includeVersions` so that they won't be considered the "earliest version", only
+    // versions which are actually before the current `version` or the `version` itself are eligible
+    pr.versions.filter((v) => !includeVersions.includes(v)),
+    'asc'
+  );
+
+  if (version !== earliestVersion) {
+    summary.skippedByVersion(pr, earliestVersion);
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/pull_request.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/pull_request.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e61e496642062a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/pull_request.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { inspect } from 'util';
+
+import Axios from 'axios';
+import gql from 'graphql-tag';
+import * as GraphqlPrinter from 'graphql/language/printer';
+import { DocumentNode } from 'graphql/language/ast';
+import makeTerminalLink from 'terminal-link';
+import { ToolingLog } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
+
+import { Version } from './version';
+import { getFixReferences } from './get_fix_references';
+import { getNoteFromDescription } from './get_note_from_description';
+
+const PrNodeFragment = gql`
+  fragment PrNode on PullRequest {
+    number
+    url
+    title
+    bodyText
+    bodyHTML
+    mergedAt
+    baseRefName
+    state
+    author {
+      login
+      ... on User {
+        name
+      }
+    }
+    labels(first: 100) {
+      nodes {
+        name
+      }
+    }
+  }
+`;
+
+export interface PullRequest {
+  number: number;
+  url: string;
+  title: string;
+  targetBranch: string;
+  mergedAt: string;
+  state: string;
+  labels: string[];
+  fixes: string[];
+  user: {
+    name: string;
+    login: string;
+  };
+  versions: Version[];
+  terminalLink: string;
+  note?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Send a single request to the Github v4 GraphQL API
+ */
+async function gqlRequest(
+  token: string,
+  query: DocumentNode,
+  variables: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+) {
+  const resp = await Axios.request({
+    url: 'https://api.github.com/graphql',
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: {
+      'user-agent': '@kbn/release-notes',
+      authorization: `bearer ${token}`,
+    },
+    data: {
+      query: GraphqlPrinter.print(query),
+      variables,
+    },
+  });
+
+  return resp.data;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Convert the Github API response into the structure used by this tool
+ *
+ * @param node A GraphQL response from Github using the PrNode fragment
+ */
+function parsePullRequestNode(node: any): PullRequest {
+  const terminalLink = makeTerminalLink(`#${node.number}`, node.url);
+
+  const labels: string[] = node.labels.nodes.map((l: { name: string }) => l.name);
+
+  return {
+    number: node.number,
+    url: node.url,
+    terminalLink,
+    title: node.title,
+    targetBranch: node.baseRefName,
+    state: node.state,
+    mergedAt: node.mergedAt,
+    labels,
+    fixes: getFixReferences(node.bodyText),
+    user: {
+      login: node.author?.login || 'deleted user',
+      name: node.author?.name,
+    },
+    versions: labels
+      .map((l) => Version.fromLabel(l))
+      .filter((v): v is Version => v instanceof Version),
+    note: getNoteFromDescription(node.bodyHTML),
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Iterate all of the PRs which have the `version` label
+ */
+export async function* iterRelevantPullRequests(token: string, version: Version, log: ToolingLog) {
+  let nextCursor: string | undefined;
+  let hasNextPage = true;
+
+  while (hasNextPage) {
+    const resp = await gqlRequest(
+      token,
+      gql`
+        query($cursor: String, $labels: [String!]) {
+          repository(owner: "elastic", name: "kibana") {
+            pullRequests(first: 100, after: $cursor, labels: $labels, states: MERGED) {
+              pageInfo {
+                hasNextPage
+                endCursor
+              }
+              nodes {
+                ...PrNode
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+        ${PrNodeFragment}
+      `,
+      {
+        cursor: nextCursor,
+        labels: [version.label],
+      }
+    );
+
+    const pullRequests = resp.data?.repository?.pullRequests;
+    if (!pullRequests) {
+      throw new Error(`unexpected github response, unable to fetch PRs: ${inspect(resp)}`);
+    }
+
+    hasNextPage = pullRequests.pageInfo?.hasNextPage;
+    nextCursor = pullRequests.pageInfo?.endCursor;
+
+    if (hasNextPage === undefined || (hasNextPage && !nextCursor)) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `github response does not include valid pagination information: ${inspect(resp)}`
+      );
+    }
+
+    for (const node of pullRequests.nodes) {
+      yield parsePullRequestNode(node);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+export async function getPr(token: string, number: number) {
+  const resp = await gqlRequest(
+    token,
+    gql`
+      query($number: Int!) {
+        repository(owner: "elastic", name: "kibana") {
+          pullRequest(number: $number) {
+            ...PrNode
+          }
+        }
+      }
+      ${PrNodeFragment}
+    `,
+    {
+      number,
+    }
+  );
+
+  const node = resp.data?.repository?.pullRequest;
+  if (!node) {
+    throw new Error(`unexpected github response, unable to fetch PR: ${inspect(resp)}`);
+  }
+
+  return parsePullRequestNode(node);
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/streams.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/streams.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f8cb9ec39186ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/streams.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { promisify } from 'util';
+import { Readable, pipeline } from 'stream';
+
+/**
+ * @types/node still doesn't have this method that was added
+ * in 10.17.0 https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_stream_readable_from_iterable_options
+ */
+export function streamFromIterable(
+  iter: Iterable<string | Buffer> | AsyncIterable<string | Buffer>
+): Readable {
+  // @ts-ignore
+  return Readable.from(iter);
+}
+
+export const asyncPipeline = promisify(pipeline);
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/type_helpers.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/type_helpers.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c9402b3584951b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/type_helpers.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+export type ArrayItem<T extends readonly any[]> = T extends ReadonlyArray<infer X> ? X : never;
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.test.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..afef2618656977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+import { Version } from './version';
+
+it('parses version labels, returns null on failure', () => {
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v1.0.2')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Version {
+      "label": "v1.0.2",
+      "major": 1,
+      "minor": 0,
+      "patch": 2,
+      "tag": undefined,
+      "tagNum": undefined,
+      "tagOrder": Infinity,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v1.0.0')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Version {
+      "label": "v1.0.0",
+      "major": 1,
+      "minor": 0,
+      "patch": 0,
+      "tag": undefined,
+      "tagNum": undefined,
+      "tagOrder": Infinity,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v9.0.2')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Version {
+      "label": "v9.0.2",
+      "major": 9,
+      "minor": 0,
+      "patch": 2,
+      "tag": undefined,
+      "tagNum": undefined,
+      "tagOrder": Infinity,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v9.0.2-alpha0')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Version {
+      "label": "v9.0.2-alpha0",
+      "major": 9,
+      "minor": 0,
+      "patch": 2,
+      "tag": "alpha",
+      "tagNum": 0,
+      "tagOrder": 1,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v9.0.2-beta1')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Version {
+      "label": "v9.0.2-beta1",
+      "major": 9,
+      "minor": 0,
+      "patch": 2,
+      "tag": "beta",
+      "tagNum": 1,
+      "tagOrder": 2,
+    }
+  `);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('v9.0')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`undefined`);
+  expect(Version.fromLabel('some:area')).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`undefined`);
+});
+
+it('sorts versions in ascending order', () => {
+  const versions = [
+    'v1.7.3',
+    'v1.7.0',
+    'v1.5.0',
+    'v2.7.0',
+    'v7.0.0-beta2',
+    'v7.0.0-alpha1',
+    'v2.0.0',
+    'v0.0.0',
+    'v7.0.0-beta1',
+    'v7.0.0',
+  ].map((l) => Version.fromLabel(l)!);
+
+  const sorted = Version.sort(versions);
+
+  expect(sorted.map((v) => v.label)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Array [
+      "v0.0.0",
+      "v1.5.0",
+      "v1.7.0",
+      "v1.7.3",
+      "v2.0.0",
+      "v2.7.0",
+      "v7.0.0-alpha1",
+      "v7.0.0-beta1",
+      "v7.0.0-beta2",
+      "v7.0.0",
+    ]
+  `);
+
+  // ensure versions was not mutated
+  expect(sorted).not.toEqual(versions);
+});
+
+it('sorts versions in decending order', () => {
+  const versions = [
+    'v1.7.3',
+    'v1.7.0',
+    'v1.5.0',
+    'v7.0.0-beta1',
+    'v2.7.0',
+    'v2.0.0',
+    'v0.0.0',
+    'v7.0.0',
+  ].map((l) => Version.fromLabel(l)!);
+
+  const sorted = Version.sort(versions, 'desc');
+
+  expect(sorted.map((v) => v.label)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+    Array [
+      "v7.0.0",
+      "v7.0.0-beta1",
+      "v2.7.0",
+      "v2.0.0",
+      "v1.7.3",
+      "v1.7.0",
+      "v1.5.0",
+      "v0.0.0",
+    ]
+  `);
+
+  // ensure versions was not mutated
+  expect(sorted).not.toEqual(versions);
+});
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..e0a5c5e177c82a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/lib/version.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+const LABEL_RE = /^v(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)(?:-(alpha|beta)(\d+))?$/;
+
+const versionCache = new Map<string, Version>();
+
+const multiCompare = (...diffs: number[]) => {
+  for (const diff of diffs) {
+    if (diff !== 0) {
+      return diff;
+    }
+  }
+  return 0;
+};
+
+export class Version {
+  static fromFlag(flag: string | string[] | boolean | undefined) {
+    if (typeof flag !== 'string') {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    return Version.fromLabel(flag) || Version.fromLabel(`v${flag}`);
+  }
+
+  static fromFlags(flag: string | string[] | boolean | undefined) {
+    const flags = Array.isArray(flag) ? flag : [flag];
+    const versions: Version[] = [];
+
+    for (const f of flags) {
+      const version = Version.fromFlag(f);
+      if (!version) {
+        return;
+      }
+      versions.push(version);
+    }
+
+    return versions;
+  }
+
+  static fromLabel(label: string) {
+    const match = label.match(LABEL_RE);
+    if (!match) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const cached = versionCache.get(label);
+    if (cached) {
+      return cached;
+    }
+
+    const [, major, minor, patch, tag, tagNum] = match;
+    const version = new Version(
+      parseInt(major, 10),
+      parseInt(minor, 10),
+      parseInt(patch, 10),
+      tag as 'alpha' | 'beta' | undefined,
+      tagNum ? parseInt(tagNum, 10) : undefined
+    );
+
+    versionCache.set(label, version);
+    return version;
+  }
+
+  static sort(versions: Version[], dir: 'asc' | 'desc' = 'asc') {
+    const order = dir === 'asc' ? 1 : -1;
+
+    return versions.slice().sort((a, b) => a.compare(b) * order);
+  }
+
+  public readonly label = `v${this.major}.${this.minor}.${this.patch}${
+    this.tag ? `-${this.tag}${this.tagNum}` : ''
+  }`;
+  private readonly tagOrder: number;
+
+  constructor(
+    public readonly major: number,
+    public readonly minor: number,
+    public readonly patch: number,
+    public readonly tag: 'alpha' | 'beta' | undefined,
+    public readonly tagNum: number | undefined
+  ) {
+    switch (tag) {
+      case undefined:
+        this.tagOrder = Infinity;
+        break;
+      case 'alpha':
+        this.tagOrder = 1;
+        break;
+      case 'beta':
+        this.tagOrder = 2;
+        break;
+      default:
+        throw new Error('unexpected tag');
+    }
+  }
+
+  compare(other: Version) {
+    return multiCompare(
+      this.major - other.major,
+      this.minor - other.minor,
+      this.patch - other.patch,
+      this.tagOrder - other.tagOrder,
+      (this.tagNum ?? 0) - (other.tagNum ?? 0)
+    );
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/release_notes_config.ts b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/release_notes_config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..88ab5dfa2fda43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/src/release_notes_config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,294 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Exclude any PR from release notes that has a matching label. String
+ * labels must match exactly, for more complicated use a RegExp
+ */
+export const IGNORE_LABELS: Array<RegExp | string> = [
+  'Team:Docs',
+  ':KibanaApp/fix-it-week',
+  'reverted',
+  /^test/,
+  'non-issue',
+  'jenkins',
+  'build',
+  'chore',
+  'backport',
+  'release_note:skip',
+  'release_note:dev_docs',
+];
+
+/**
+ * Define areas that are used to categorize changes in the release notes
+ * based on the labels a PR has. the `labels` array can contain strings, which
+ * are matched exactly, or regular expressions. The first area, in definition
+ * order, which has a `label` which matches and label on a PR is the area
+ * assigned to that PR.
+ */
+
+export interface Area {
+  title: string;
+  labels: Array<string | RegExp>;
+}
+
+export const AREAS: Area[] = [
+  {
+    title: 'Design',
+    labels: ['Team:Design', 'Project:Accessibility'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Logstash',
+    labels: ['App:Logstash', 'Feature:Logstash Pipelines'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Management',
+    labels: [
+      'Feature:license',
+      'Feature:Console',
+      'Feature:Search Profiler',
+      'Feature:watcher',
+      'Feature:Index Patterns',
+      'Feature:Kibana Management',
+      'Feature:Dev Tools',
+      'Feature:Inspector',
+      'Feature:Index Management',
+      'Feature:Snapshot and Restore',
+      'Team:Elasticsearch UI',
+      'Feature:FieldFormatters',
+      'Feature:CCR',
+      'Feature:ILM',
+      'Feature:Transforms',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Monitoring',
+    labels: ['Team:Monitoring', 'Feature:Telemetry', 'Feature:Stack Monitoring'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Operations',
+    labels: ['Team:Operations', 'Feature:License'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Kibana UI',
+    labels: ['Kibana UI', 'Team:Core UI', 'Feature:Header'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Platform',
+    labels: [
+      'Team:Platform',
+      'Feature:Plugins',
+      'Feature:New Platform',
+      'Project:i18n',
+      'Feature:ExpressionLanguage',
+      'Feature:Saved Objects',
+      'Team:Stack Services',
+      'Feature:NP Migration',
+      'Feature:Task Manager',
+      'Team:Pulse',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Machine Learning',
+    labels: [
+      ':ml',
+      'Feature:Anomaly Detection',
+      'Feature:Data Frames',
+      'Feature:File Data Viz',
+      'Feature:ml-results',
+      'Feature:Data Frame Analytics',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Maps',
+    labels: ['Team:Geo'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Canvas',
+    labels: ['Team:Canvas'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'QA',
+    labels: ['Team:QA'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Security',
+    labels: [
+      'Team:Security',
+      'Feature:Security/Spaces',
+      'Feature:users and roles',
+      'Feature:Security/Authentication',
+      'Feature:Security/Authorization',
+      'Feature:Security/Feature Controls',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Dashboard',
+    labels: ['Feature:Dashboard', 'Feature:Drilldowns'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Discover',
+    labels: ['Feature:Discover'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Kibana Home & Add Data',
+    labels: ['Feature:Add Data', 'Feature:Home'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Querying & Filtering',
+    labels: [
+      'Feature:Query Bar',
+      'Feature:Courier',
+      'Feature:Filters',
+      'Feature:Timepicker',
+      'Feature:Highlight',
+      'Feature:KQL',
+      'Feature:Rollups',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Reporting',
+    labels: ['Feature:Reporting', 'Team:Reporting Services'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Sharing',
+    labels: ['Feature:Embedding', 'Feature:SharingURLs'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Visualizations',
+    labels: [
+      'Feature:Timelion',
+      'Feature:TSVB',
+      'Feature:Coordinate Map',
+      'Feature:Region Map',
+      'Feature:Vega',
+      'Feature:Gauge Vis',
+      'Feature:Tagcloud',
+      'Feature:Vis Loader',
+      'Feature:Vislib',
+      'Feature:Vis Editor',
+      'Feature:Aggregations',
+      'Feature:Input Control',
+      'Feature:Visualizations',
+      'Feature:Markdown',
+      'Feature:Data Table',
+      'Feature:Heatmap',
+      'Feature:Pie Chart',
+      'Feature:XYAxis',
+      'Feature:Graph',
+      'Feature:New Feature',
+      'Feature:MetricVis',
+    ],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'SIEM',
+    labels: ['Team:SIEM'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Code',
+    labels: ['Team:Code'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Infrastructure',
+    labels: ['App:Infrastructure', 'Feature:Infra UI', 'Feature:Service Maps'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Logs',
+    labels: ['App:Logs', 'Feature:Logs UI'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Uptime',
+    labels: ['App:Uptime', 'Feature:Uptime', 'Team:uptime'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Beats Management',
+    labels: ['App:Beats', 'Feature:beats-cm', 'Team:Beats'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'APM',
+    labels: ['Team:apm', /^apm[:\-]/],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Lens',
+    labels: ['App:Lens', 'Feature:Lens'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Alerting',
+    labels: ['App:Alerting', 'Feature:Alerting', 'Team:Alerting Services', 'Feature:Actions'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Metrics',
+    labels: ['App:Metrics', 'Feature:Metrics UI', 'Team:logs-metrics-ui'],
+  },
+  {
+    title: 'Data ingest',
+    labels: ['Ingest', 'Feature:Ingest Node Pipelines'],
+  },
+];
+
+export const UNKNOWN_AREA: Area = {
+  title: 'Unknown',
+  labels: [],
+};
+
+/**
+ * Define the sections that will be assigned to PRs when generating the
+ * asciidoc formatted report. The order of the sections determines the
+ * order they will be rendered in the report
+ */
+
+export interface AsciidocSection {
+  title: string;
+  labels: Array<string | RegExp>;
+  id: string;
+}
+
+export const ASCIIDOC_SECTIONS: AsciidocSection[] = [
+  {
+    id: 'enhancement',
+    title: 'Enhancements',
+    labels: ['release_note:enhancement'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'bug',
+    title: 'Bug fixes',
+    labels: ['release_note:fix'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'roadmap',
+    title: 'Roadmap',
+    labels: ['release_note:roadmap'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'deprecation',
+    title: 'Deprecations',
+    labels: ['release_note:deprecation'],
+  },
+  {
+    id: 'breaking',
+    title: 'Breaking Changes',
+    labels: ['release_note:breaking'],
+  },
+];
+
+export const UNKNOWN_ASCIIDOC_SECTION: AsciidocSection = {
+  id: 'unknown',
+  title: 'Unknown',
+  labels: [],
+};
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/tsconfig.json b/packages/kbn-release-notes/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..6ffa64d91fba0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "outDir": "./target",
+    "declaration": true,
+    "sourceMap": true,
+    "target": "ES2019"
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "src/**/*"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/packages/kbn-release-notes/yarn.lock b/packages/kbn-release-notes/yarn.lock
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000000..3f82ebc9cdbae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/kbn-release-notes/yarn.lock
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../yarn.lock
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/release_notes.js b/scripts/release_notes.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f46ee5823d70d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/release_notes.js
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch B.V. licenses this file to you 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.
+ */
+
+require('../src/setup_node_env/prebuilt_dev_only_entry');
+require('@kbn/release-notes').runReleaseNotesCli();
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 679cfcd5229ca6..5ed1b31e844f33 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5306,9 +5306,9 @@
     "@types/node" "*"
 
 "@types/node@*", "@types/node@8.10.54", "@types/node@>=10.17.17 <10.20.0", "@types/node@>=8.9.0", "@types/node@^12.0.2":
-  version "10.17.17"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node/-/node-10.17.17.tgz#7a183163a9e6ff720d86502db23ba4aade5999b8"
-  integrity sha512-gpNnRnZP3VWzzj5k3qrpRC6Rk3H/uclhAVo1aIvwzK5p5cOrs9yEyQ8H/HBsBY0u5rrWxXEiVPQ0dEB6pkjE8Q==
+  version "10.17.26"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/node/-/node-10.17.26.tgz#a8a119960bff16b823be4c617da028570779bcfd"
+  integrity sha512-myMwkO2Cr82kirHY8uknNRHEVtn0wV3DTQfkrjx17jmkstDRZ24gNUdl8AHXVyVclTYI/bNjgTPTAWvWLqXqkw==
 
 "@types/nodemailer@^6.2.1":
   version "6.2.1"
@@ -16093,6 +16093,11 @@ graphql-tag@2.10.1, graphql-tag@^2.9.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graphql-tag/-/graphql-tag-2.10.1.tgz#10aa41f1cd8fae5373eaf11f1f67260a3cad5e02"
   integrity sha512-jApXqWBzNXQ8jYa/HLkZJaVw9jgwNqZkywa2zfFn16Iv1Zb7ELNHkJaXHR7Quvd5SIGsy6Ny7SUKATgnu05uEg==
 
+graphql-tag@^2.10.3:
+  version "2.10.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graphql-tag/-/graphql-tag-2.10.3.tgz#ea1baba5eb8fc6339e4c4cf049dabe522b0edf03"
+  integrity sha512-4FOv3ZKfA4WdOKJeHdz6B3F/vxBLSgmBcGeAFPf4n1F64ltJUvOOerNj0rsJxONQGdhUMynQIvd6LzB+1J5oKA==
+
 graphql-toolkit@0.2.0:
   version "0.2.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graphql-toolkit/-/graphql-toolkit-0.2.0.tgz#91364b69911d51bc915269a37963f4ea2d5f335c"
@@ -16139,6 +16144,13 @@ graphql@^0.13.2:
   dependencies:
     iterall "^1.2.1"
 
+graphql@^14.0.0:
+  version "14.6.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graphql/-/graphql-14.6.0.tgz#57822297111e874ea12f5cd4419616930cd83e49"
+  integrity sha512-VKzfvHEKybTKjQVpTFrA5yUq2S9ihcZvfJAtsDBBCuV6wauPu1xl/f9ehgVf0FcEJJs4vz6ysb/ZMkGigQZseg==
+  dependencies:
+    iterall "^1.2.2"
+
 graphviz@^0.0.8:
   version "0.0.8"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/graphviz/-/graphviz-0.0.8.tgz#e599e40733ef80e1653bfe89a5f031ecf2aa4aaa"
@@ -18627,6 +18639,11 @@ iterall@^1.1.3, iterall@^1.2.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/iterall/-/iterall-1.2.2.tgz#92d70deb8028e0c39ff3164fdbf4d8b088130cd7"
   integrity sha512-yynBb1g+RFUPY64fTrFv7nsjRrENBQJaX2UL+2Szc9REFrSNm1rpSXHGzhmAy7a9uv3vlvgBlXnf9RqmPH1/DA==
 
+iterall@^1.2.2:
+  version "1.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/iterall/-/iterall-1.3.0.tgz#afcb08492e2915cbd8a0884eb93a8c94d0d72fea"
+  integrity sha512-QZ9qOMdF+QLHxy1QIpUHUU1D5pS2CG2P69LF6L6CPjPYA/XMOmKV3PZpawHoAjHNyB0swdVTRxdYT4tbBbxqwg==
+
 jest-changed-files@^24.9.0:
   version "24.9.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jest-changed-files/-/jest-changed-files-24.9.0.tgz#08d8c15eb79a7fa3fc98269bc14b451ee82f8039"
@@ -29064,6 +29081,14 @@ supports-hyperlinks@^1.0.1:
     has-flag "^2.0.0"
     supports-color "^5.0.0"
 
+supports-hyperlinks@^2.0.0:
+  version "2.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/supports-hyperlinks/-/supports-hyperlinks-2.1.0.tgz#f663df252af5f37c5d49bbd7eeefa9e0b9e59e47"
+  integrity sha512-zoE5/e+dnEijk6ASB6/qrK+oYdm2do1hjoLWrqUC/8WEIW1gbxFcKuBof7sW8ArN6e+AYvsE8HBGiVRWL/F5CA==
+  dependencies:
+    has-flag "^4.0.0"
+    supports-color "^7.0.0"
+
 suricata-sid-db@^1.0.2:
   version "1.0.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/suricata-sid-db/-/suricata-sid-db-1.0.2.tgz#96ceda4db117a9f1282c8f9d785285e5ccf342b1"
@@ -29416,6 +29441,14 @@ term-size@^2.1.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/term-size/-/term-size-2.2.0.tgz#1f16adedfe9bdc18800e1776821734086fcc6753"
   integrity sha512-a6sumDlzyHVJWb8+YofY4TW112G6p2FCPEAFk+59gIYHv3XHRhm9ltVQ9kli4hNWeQBwSpe8cRN25x0ROunMOw==
 
+terminal-link@^2.1.1:
+  version "2.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/terminal-link/-/terminal-link-2.1.1.tgz#14a64a27ab3c0df933ea546fba55f2d078edc994"
+  integrity sha512-un0FmiRUQNr5PJqy9kP7c40F5BOfpGlYTrxonDChEZB7pzZxRNp/bt+ymiy9/npwXya9KH99nJ/GXFIiUkYGFQ==
+  dependencies:
+    ansi-escapes "^4.2.1"
+    supports-hyperlinks "^2.0.0"
+
 terser-webpack-plugin@^1.2.4, terser-webpack-plugin@^1.4.3:
   version "1.4.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/terser-webpack-plugin/-/terser-webpack-plugin-1.4.4.tgz#2c63544347324baafa9a56baaddf1634c8abfc2f"