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+#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+# 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.
+
+# Example:
+# ruby generate_release_notes.rb 6.4 6.4.1
+#
+# This:
+# * compares the lock file of two commits
+# * for each plugin version bumped show CHANGELOG.md of the bumped version
+require 'tempfile'
+require 'yaml'
+require 'json'
+require 'net/http'
+
+RELEASE_NOTES_PATH = "docs/release-notes/index.md"
+release_branch = ARGV[0]
+previous_release_tag = ARGV[1]
+user = ARGV[2]
+token = ARGV[3]
+report = []
+
+`git checkout #{release_branch}`
+
+current_release = YAML.load(IO.read("versions.yml"))["logstash"]
+
+release_notes = IO.read(RELEASE_NOTES_PATH).split("\n")
+
+coming_tag_index = release_notes.find_index {|line| line.match(/^## #{current_release} \[logstash-#{current_release}-release-notes\]$/) }
+coming_tag_index += 1 if coming_tag_index
+release_notes_entry_index = coming_tag_index || release_notes.find_index {|line| line.match(/^## .*\[logstash-.*-release-notes\]$/) }
+
+unless coming_tag_index
+  report << "## #{current_release} [logstash-#{current_release}-release-notes]\n\n"
+  report << "### Features and enhancements [logstash-#{current_release}-features-enhancements]\n"
+end
+
+plugin_changes = {}
+
+report <<  "---------- GENERATED CONTENT STARTS HERE ------------"
+report <<  "=== Logstash Pull Requests with label v#{current_release}\n"
+
+uri = URI.parse("https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:elastic/logstash+is:pr+is:closed+label:v#{current_release}&sort=created&order=asc")
+pull_requests = JSON.parse(Net::HTTP.get(uri))
+pull_requests['items'].each do |prs|
+  report << "* #{prs['title']} #{prs['html_url']}[##{prs['number']}]"
+end
+report << ""
+
+report <<  "=== Logstash Commits between #{release_branch} and #{previous_release_tag}\n"
+report <<  "Computed with \"git log --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr) <%an>' --abbrev-commit --date=relative v#{previous_release_tag}..#{release_branch}\""
+report <<  ""
+logstash_prs = `git log --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr) <%an>' --abbrev-commit --date=relative v#{previous_release_tag}..#{release_branch}`
+report << logstash_prs
+report << "\n=== Logstash Plugin Release Changelogs ==="
+report << "Computed from \"git diff v#{previous_release_tag}..#{release_branch} *.release\""
+result = `git diff v#{previous_release_tag}..#{release_branch} *.release`.split("\n")
+
+result.each do |line|
+  # example "+    logstash-input-syslog (3.4.1)"
+  if match = line.match(/\+\s+(?<plugin>logstash-.+?-.+?)\s+\((?<version>\d+\.\d+.\d+).*?\)/)
+    plugin_changes[match[:plugin]] ||= []
+    plugin_changes[match[:plugin]] << match[:version]
+  elsif match = line.match(/\-\s+(?<plugin>logstash-.+?-.+?)\s+\((?<version>\d+\.\d+.\d+).*?\)/)
+    plugin_changes[match[:plugin]] ||= []
+    plugin_changes[match[:plugin]].unshift(match[:version])
+  else
+    # ..
+  end
+end
+report << "Changed plugin versions:"
+plugin_changes.each {|p, v| report << "#{p}: #{v.first} -> #{v.last}" }
+report << "---------- GENERATED CONTENT ENDS HERE ------------\n"
+
+report << "### Plugins [logstash-plugin-#{current_release}-changes]\n"
+
+plugin_changes.each do |plugin, versions|
+  _, type, name = plugin.split("-")
+  header = "**#{name.capitalize} #{type.capitalize} - #{versions.last}**"
+  start_changelog_file = Tempfile.new(plugin + 'start')
+  end_changelog_file = Tempfile.new(plugin + 'end')
+  changelog = `curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logstash-plugins/#{plugin}/v#{versions.last}/CHANGELOG.md`.split("\n")
+  report << "#{header}\n"
+  changelog.each do |line|
+    break if line.match(/^## #{versions.first}/)
+    next if line.match(/^##/)
+    line.gsub!(/^\+/, "")
+    line.gsub!(/ #(?<number>\d+)\s*$/, " https://github.com/logstash-plugins/#{plugin}/issues/\\k<number>[#\\k<number>]")
+    line.gsub!(/\[#(?<number>\d+)\]\((?<url>[^)]*)\)/, "[#\\k<number>](\\k<url>)")
+    line.gsub!(/^\s+-/, "*")
+    report << line
+  end
+  report << ""
+  start_changelog_file.unlink
+  end_changelog_file.unlink
+end
+
+release_notes.insert(release_notes_entry_index, report.join("\n").gsub(/\n{3,}/, "\n\n"))
+
+IO.write(RELEASE_NOTES_PATH, release_notes.join("\n"))
+
+if token.nil?
+  puts "No token provided, skipping commit and push"
+  exit
+end
+
+puts "Creating commit.."
+branch_name = "update_release_notes_#{Time.now.to_i}"
+`git checkout -b #{branch_name}`
+`git commit #{RELEASE_NOTES_PATH} -m "Update release notes for #{current_release}"`
+
+puts "Pushing commit.."
+`git remote set-url origin https://x-access-token:#{token}@github.com/elastic/logstash.git`
+`git push origin #{branch_name}`
+
+puts "Creating Pull Request"
+pr_title = "Release notes for #{current_release}"
+result = `curl -H "Authorization: token #{token}" -d '{"title":"#{pr_title}","base":"#{release_branch}", "head":"#{branch_name}", "draft": true}' https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/logstash/pulls`
+puts result
+pr_number = JSON.parse(result)["number"]
+puts `curl -X POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" -H "Authorization: token #{token}" https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/logstash/issues/#{pr_number}/assignees -d '{"assignees":["#{user}"]}'`
+puts "Done"