diff --git a/_posts/release/2018-04-18-accumulo-1.9.0.md b/_posts/release/2018-04-18-accumulo-1.9.0.md
index 11d518d02..50090b8fc 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2018-04-18-accumulo-1.9.0.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2018-04-18-accumulo-1.9.0.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ be considered a maintenance release on 1.8 branch except there are some API
 additions which resulted in a new minor release. Users of 1.8.x versions of
 Accumulo should upgrade to 1.9.0. There will be no more bug fix releases on the
 1.8 branch. This release contains changes for nearly a hundred issues. See
-[GitHub] and [JIRA] for a list of changes.
+[GitHub][milestone] and [JIRA] for a list of changes.
 
 Below are resources for this release:
 
@@ -110,7 +110,13 @@ Continuous ingest, random walk, and all integration test were run against RC1.
 Randomwalk was run for 2 days with 7 walkers.  Continuous ingest was run with 9
 nodes for 24 hours followed by a successful verification.
 
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F4
+## Useful Links
+
+* [All tickets on GitHub related to this release.][milestone]
+* [All tickets on JIRA related to this release.][JIRA]
+
+
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/4
 [JIRA]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12312121&version=12339245
 [upgrade]: {{ site.baseurl }}/docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
 [user_manual]: {{ site.baseurl }}/1.9/accumulo_user_manual.html
diff --git a/_posts/release/2018-05-14-accumulo-1.9.1.md b/_posts/release/2018-05-14-accumulo-1.9.1.md
index ca785a0e5..8f9b69e24 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2018-05-14-accumulo-1.9.1.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2018-05-14-accumulo-1.9.1.md
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ A less serious bug than the above critical bugs was discovered and fixed,
 pertaining to write-ahead log recovery. This bug involved recovery files not
 being removed properly when no longer required and was fixed in [#432].
 
-## Other Changes
-
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
-
 ## Upgrading
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
@@ -52,12 +48,17 @@ version. Continuous ingest was run with 9 nodes for 24 hours followed by a
 successful verification. The integration tests were run against both Hadoop
 2.6.4 and Hadoop 3.0.0.
 
+## Useful Links
+
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+
 [#432]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/432
 [#441]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/441
 [#443]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/443
 [#449]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/449
 [#458]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/458
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F5
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/5
 [examples]: {{ site.baseurl }}/1.9/examples/
 [javadoc]: {{ site.baseurl }}/1.9/apidocs/
 [upgrade]: {{ site.baseurl }}/docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
diff --git a/_posts/release/2018-07-19-accumulo-1.9.2.md b/_posts/release/2018-07-19-accumulo-1.9.2.md
index 2e00e4d16..ac46dd614 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2018-07-19-accumulo-1.9.2.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2018-07-19-accumulo-1.9.2.md
@@ -62,10 +62,6 @@ those pertaining to bulk imports) in incorrect time units.
 
 This bug was fixed in [#553].
 
-## Other Changes
-
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
-
 ## Upgrading
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
@@ -82,6 +78,11 @@ View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 * Ran a single-node cluster with [Uno] and created a table, ingested data,
   flushed, compacted, scanned, and deleted the table.
 
+## Useful Links
+
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+
 [#441]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/441
 [#467]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/467
 [#537]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/537
@@ -90,7 +91,7 @@ View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 [#546]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/546
 [#553]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/553
 [#559]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/559
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F6
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/6
 [Uno]: https://github.com/apache/fluo-uno
 [examples]: {{ site.baseurl }}/1.9/examples/
 [fluo]: https://fluo.apache.org
diff --git a/_posts/release/2018-10-14-accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1.md b/_posts/release/2018-10-14-accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1.md
index de47dbe5d..28cb777fa 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2018-10-14-accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2018-10-14-accumulo-2.0.0-alpha-1.md
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ still occur before a final 2.0.0 release.
   changes coming in 2.0.0, many of which are either complete, or nearly
   complete in this alpha release.
 
+This release also includes bug fixes from 1.9.2 and earlier.
+
 [javadoc]: {{ site.baseurl }}/docs/2.x/apidocs/
 [user_manual]: {{ site.baseurl }}/docs/2.x/
 [draft_notes]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/accumulo-2.0.0
diff --git a/_posts/release/2019-04-10-accumulo-1.9.3.md b/_posts/release/2019-04-10-accumulo-1.9.3.md
index 077a9b7df..11fb88bc3 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2019-04-10-accumulo-1.9.3.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2019-04-10-accumulo-1.9.3.md
@@ -138,15 +138,16 @@ HostRegexTableLoadBalancer configuration setting
 The packaged, binary  tarball contains updated version of libthrift to version 0.9.3-1 to
 address thrift CVE. Issue [#1029]
 
+## Upgrading
+
+View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
+
 ## Useful links
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 1.9.2][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
-## Upgrading
-
-View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
 [#559]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/559
 [#596]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/596
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 [#1055]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/1055
 [#1057]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/1057
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.9.2...apache:rel/1.9.3
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F7
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/7
 [Uno]: https://github.com/apache/fluo-uno
 [examples]: {{ site.baseurl }}/1.9/examples/
 [fluo]: https://fluo.apache.org
diff --git a/_posts/release/2019-08-02-accumulo-2.0.0.md b/_posts/release/2019-08-02-accumulo-2.0.0.md
index 11f6aef22..b82503bab 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2019-08-02-accumulo-2.0.0.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2019-08-02-accumulo-2.0.0.md
@@ -196,11 +196,19 @@ at table creation time can be much faster than adding splits after creation.
 * Many performance improvements mentioned in the 1.9.X release notes are also available in 2.0.
 * Scanners close server side sessions on close {% ghi 813 %} {% ghi 905 %}
 
+This release also includes bug fixes from 1.9.3 which was released after
+2.0.0-alpha-1 and 2.0.0-alpha-2.
+
 ## Upgrading
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
+## Useful Links
+
+* [All tickets on GitHub related to this release.][milestone]
+
 
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/9
 [#634]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues/634
 [ACCUMULO-3652]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3652
 [ACCUMULO-4449]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4449
diff --git a/_posts/release/2020-09-03-accumulo-1.10.0.md b/_posts/release/2020-09-03-accumulo-1.10.0.md
index 826ed77ca..35569b925 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2020-09-03-accumulo-1.10.0.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2020-09-03-accumulo-1.10.0.md
@@ -179,9 +179,10 @@ properly.
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 1.9.3][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F8
+
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/8
 [LTM]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contributor/versioning#LTM
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.9.3...apache:rel/1.10.0
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
diff --git a/_posts/release/2020-12-22-accumulo-1.10.1.md b/_posts/release/2020-12-22-accumulo-1.10.1.md
index 084a3a9b9..f7d6de660 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2020-12-22-accumulo-1.10.1.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2020-12-22-accumulo-1.10.1.md
@@ -54,10 +54,11 @@ with `-Denforcer.skip`, as a workaround.
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 1.10.0][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
 
 [CVE-2020-17533]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17533
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F16
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/16
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.10.0...apache:rel/1.10.1
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
 [vote-emails]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r90ac3cc0d2356c86a94abf2b6859965e9659b8bcdb6cfd18b69941ac%40%3Cdev.accumulo.apache.org%3E
diff --git a/_posts/release/2020-12-24-accumulo-2.0.1.md b/_posts/release/2020-12-24-accumulo-2.0.1.md
index cf9915c66..17a0b7970 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2020-12-24-accumulo-2.0.1.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2020-12-24-accumulo-2.0.1.md
@@ -70,10 +70,13 @@ View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 2.0.0][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+This release does not include other bug fixes from 1.10.0 and 1.10.1, which
+were released after 2.0.0.
 
 [CVE-2020-17533]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17533
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F19
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/19
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/2.0.0...apache:rel/2.0.1
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
diff --git a/_posts/release/2022-02-13-accumulo-1.10.2.md b/_posts/release/2022-02-13-accumulo-1.10.2.md
index f425fb594..41ef6961d 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2022-02-13-accumulo-1.10.2.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2022-02-13-accumulo-1.10.2.md
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ applicable to this version.
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 1.10.1][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F18
+
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/18
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.10.1...apache:rel/1.10.2
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
 [vote-emails]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/bq424vnov27nwnkb471oxg5nd7m6xwn9
diff --git a/_posts/release/2022-11-01-accumulo-2.1.0.md b/_posts/release/2022-11-01-accumulo-2.1.0.md
index d30c0933c..6d20656ef 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2022-11-01-accumulo-2.1.0.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2022-11-01-accumulo-2.1.0.md
@@ -408,10 +408,6 @@ file, cluster.yaml, in the conf directory instead of multiple files (tserver, ma
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
-## 2.1.0 GitHub Project
-
-[All tickets related to 2.1.0.][project]
-
 ## Known Issues
 
 At the time of release, the following issues were known:
@@ -422,10 +418,17 @@ At the time of release, the following issues were known:
 * {% ghi 3057 %} - The monitor may have an annoying popup on the external compactions page if the
   coordinator is offline
 
+## Useful Links
+
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+This release also includes bug fixes from 1.10.2 and earlier, which were
+released after 2.0.0.
+
 
 [LTM]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contributor/versioning#LTM
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
-[project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/3
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/3
 [ext_comp_blog]: /blog/2021/07/08/external-compactions.html
 [ext_comp_project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/20
 [vfs_system_classloader]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo-classloaders/tree/main/modules/vfs-class-loader
diff --git a/_posts/release/2023-04-13-accumulo-1.10.3.md b/_posts/release/2023-04-13-accumulo-1.10.3.md
index ac1f85039..5cfd7dbae 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2023-04-13-accumulo-1.10.3.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2023-04-13-accumulo-1.10.3.md
@@ -60,9 +60,10 @@ applicable to all 1.10 releases.
 
 * [Release VOTE email thread][vote-emails]
 * [All Changes since 1.10.2][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=%20project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F23
+
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/23
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.10.2...apache:rel/1.10.3
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
 [vote-emails]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/zl8xoogzqnbcw75vcmvqmwlrf8djfcb5
diff --git a/_posts/release/2023-06-19-accumulo-2.1.1.md b/_posts/release/2023-06-19-accumulo-2.1.1.md
index 0aaf01fad..70fe7430b 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2023-06-19-accumulo-2.1.1.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2023-06-19-accumulo-2.1.1.md
@@ -96,12 +96,15 @@ Other notable changes:
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
-## 2.1.1 GitHub Project
+## Useful Links
 
-[All tickets related to 2.1.1.][project]
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+This release also includes bug fixes from 1.10.3, which was released after
+2.1.0.
 
 
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
-[project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/25
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/25
 [HDFS-16864]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-16864
 [CVE-2023-34340]: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34340
diff --git a/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-2.1.2.md b/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-2.1.2.md
index c26c7d678..e4cde1ac4 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-2.1.2.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-2.1.2.md
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ Improvements that help with administration:
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
-## 2.1.2 GitHub Project
+## Useful Links
 
-[All tickets related to 2.1.2.][project]
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
 
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
-[project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/29
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/29
diff --git a/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-3.0.0.md b/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-3.0.0.md
index 278f0832f..78d01829b 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-3.0.0.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2023-08-21-accumulo-3.0.0.md
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ improvements. It also contains a few other minor improvements.
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
-## 3.0.0 GitHub Project
+## Useful Links
 
-[All tickets related to 3.0.0.][project]
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+This release also includes bug fixes from 2.1.2 and earlier.
 
 
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
 [bulk import release notes]: https://accumulo.apache.org/release/accumulo-2.0.0/#new-bulk-import-api
-[project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/11
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/11
diff --git a/_posts/release/2023-11-16-accumulo-1.10.4.md b/_posts/release/2023-11-16-accumulo-1.10.4.md
index e55cd3e35..c615c2228 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2023-11-16-accumulo-1.10.4.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2023-11-16-accumulo-1.10.4.md
@@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ applicable to all 1.10 releases.
 ## Useful Links
 
 * [All Changes since 1.10.3][all-changes]
-* [GitHub] - List of issues tracked on GitHub corresponding to this release
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
 
-[GitHub]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/issues?q=%20project%3Aapache%2Faccumulo%2F27
+
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/27
 [all-changes]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/compare/rel/1.10.3...apache:rel/1.10.4
 [contact]: {{ site.baseurl }}/contact-us
 [VFS683]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/VFS/issues/VFS-683
diff --git a/_posts/release/2024-07-10-accumulo-2.1.3.md b/_posts/release/2024-07-10-accumulo-2.1.3.md
index 9432b791d..ce2d6cba8 100644
--- a/_posts/release/2024-07-10-accumulo-2.1.3.md
+++ b/_posts/release/2024-07-10-accumulo-2.1.3.md
@@ -57,10 +57,12 @@ Improvements that affect performance:
 
 View the [Upgrading Accumulo documentation][upgrade] for guidance.
 
-## 2.1.3 GitHub Project
+## Useful Links
 
-[All tickets related to 2.1.3.][project]
+* [All tickets related to this release.][milestone]
+
+This release also contains bug fixes from 1.10.4, which was released after 2.1.2.
 
 
 [upgrade]: /docs/2.x/administration/upgrading
-[project]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/30
+[milestone]: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/projects/30