diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8547a5f094..56a5fc7490 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-Upcoming release
-================
-
 1.0.0 (January 24, 2018)
 ========================
 
diff --git a/tools/update_changes.sh b/tools/update_changes.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9327118c7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/update_changes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Collects the pull-requests since the latest release and
+# aranges them in the CHANGES.txt file.
+#
+# This is a script to be run before releasing a new version.
+#
+# Usage /bin/bash update_changes.sh 1.0.1
+#
+
+# Setting      # $ help set
+set -u         # Treat unset variables as an error when substituting.
+set -x         # Print command traces before executing command.
+
+# Check whether the Upcoming release header is present
+head -1 CHANGES | grep -q Upcoming
+UPCOMING=$?
+
+# Elaborate today's release header
+HEADER="$1 ($(date '+%B %d, %Y'))"
+echo $HEADER >> newchanges
+echo $( printf "%${#HEADER}s" | tr " " "=" ) >> newchanges
+echo "" >> newchanges
+
+# Search for PRs since previous release
+git log --grep="Merge pull request" `git describe --tags --abbrev=0`..HEAD --pretty='format:  * %b %s' | sed  's+Merge pull request \#\([^\d]*\)\ from\ .*+(https://github.com/nipy/nipype/pull/\1)+' >> newchanges
+echo "" >> newchanges
+echo "" >> newchanges
+
+# Append old CHANGES
+if [[ "$UPCOMING" == "0" ]]; then
+    # Drop the Upcoming title if present
+    tail -n+4 CHANGES >> newchanges
+else
+    cat CHANGES >> newchanges
+fi
+
+# Replace old CHANGES with new file
+mv newchanges CHANGES
+