diff --git a/.github/workflows/create-draft-release-reusable.yml b/.github/workflows/create-draft-release-reusable.yml
index 1c71f18..81cee0e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/create-draft-release-reusable.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/create-draft-release-reusable.yml
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ jobs:
           GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
         shell: bash
         run: |
-          # Note: your repository needs to have this script.
-          # Running this script should result in a file named CHANGELOG.md, located in the base directory.
-          ./hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh "${VERSION}"
+          # todo once the script was merged replace main with a commit sha:
+          # curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyma-project/eventing-tools/<your-sha>/hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh | bash "${VERSION}"
+          curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kyma-project/eventing-tools/main/hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh | bash "${VERSION}"
 
       - name: Print out changelog
         run: cat CHANGELOG.md
diff --git a/.github/workflows/render-and-upload-manifests-reusable.yml b/.github/workflows/render-and-upload-manifests-reusable.yml
index f185156..14ffa99 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/render-and-upload-manifests-reusable.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/render-and-upload-manifests-reusable.yml
@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ jobs:
         # Note: your repository needs to have this script.
         run: ./hack/scripts/render_crd.sh "${VERSION}"
 
+      - name: Create Symlink for CR file
+        # `gh release upload <yourfile>` cannot rename files so we create a symlink with the desired name for the CR.
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          CR_FILE: ${{ inputs.CR_FILE }}
+        run: |
+          ln -sf config/samples/default.yaml "./${CR_FILE}"
+
       - name: Print out CR file
         env:
           CR_FILE: ${{ inputs.CR_FILE }}
diff --git a/hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh b/hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7955691
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/scripts/create_changelog.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Error handling.
+set -o nounset  # treat unset variables as an error and exit immediately.
+set -o errexit  # exit immediately when a command fails.
+set -E          # needs to be set if we want the ERR trap
+set -o pipefail # prevents errors in a pipeline from being masked
+
+RELEASE_TAG=$1
+
+REPOSITORY=${REPOSITORY:-kyma-project/eventing-manager}
+GITHUB_URL=https://api.github.com/repos/${REPOSITORY}
+GITHUB_AUTH_HEADER="Authorization: token ${GH_TOKEN}"
+CHANGELOG_FILE="CHANGELOG.md"
+
+# The git describe --tag --abbrev=0 command is used to find the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit.
+# The --tag option tells git describe to consider any tag found in the refs/tags namespace, enabling matching a lightweight (non-annotated) tag.
+PREVIOUS_RELEASE=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
+
+# Generate the changelog in the CHANGELOG.md.
+echo "## What has changed" >>${CHANGELOG_FILE}
+
+# Iterate over all commits since the previous release.
+git log "${PREVIOUS_RELEASE}"..HEAD --pretty=tformat:"%h" --reverse | while read -r commit; do
+	# If the author of the commit is not kyma-bot, append the commit message to the changelog.
+	COMMIT_AUTHOR=$(curl -H "${GITHUB_AUTH_HEADER}" -sS "${GITHUB_URL}/commits/${commit}" | jq -r '.author.login')
+	if [ "${COMMIT_AUTHOR}" != "kyma-bot" ]; then
+		git show -s "${commit}" --format="* %s by @${COMMIT_AUTHOR}" >>${CHANGELOG_FILE}
+	fi
+done
+
+# Create a new contibutors file (with a unique name based on the process ID of the current shell).
+NEW_CONTRIB=$$.authors
+
+# Find unique authors who contributed since the last release, but not before it, and add them to the NEW_CONTRIB file.
+join -v2 \
+	<(curl -H "${GITHUB_AUTH_HEADER}" -sS "${GITHUB_URL}/compare/$(git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD)...${PREVIOUS_RELEASE}" | jq -r '.commits[].author.login' | sort -u) \
+	<(curl -H "${GITHUB_AUTH_HEADER}" -sS "${GITHUB_URL}/compare/${PREVIOUS_RELEASE}...HEAD" | jq -r '.commits[].author.login' | sort -u) >${NEW_CONTRIB}
+
+# Add new contributors to the 'new contributors' section of the changelog.
+if [ -s ${NEW_CONTRIB} ]; then
+	echo -e "\n## New contributors" >>${CHANGELOG_FILE}
+	while read -r user; do
+		REF_PR=$(grep "@${user}" ${CHANGELOG_FILE} | head -1 | grep -o " (#[0-9]\+)" || true)
+		if [ -n "${REF_PR}" ]; then #reference found
+			REF_PR=" in ${REF_PR}"
+		fi
+		echo "* @${user} made first contribution${REF_PR}" >>${CHANGELOG_FILE}
+	done <${NEW_CONTRIB}
+fi
+
+# Append link to the full-changelog this changelog.
+echo -e "\n**Full changelog**: https://github.com/$REPOSITORY/compare/${PREVIOUS_RELEASE}...${RELEASE_TAG}" >>${CHANGELOG_FILE}
diff --git a/hack/scripts/get-version-from-branch.sh b/hack/scripts/get-version-from-branch.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 244411d..0000000
--- a/hack/scripts/get-version-from-branch.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# This script will generate the version.
-#
-# First it verifies, that the current branch name is 'release-x.y',
-# where x and y are multi-digit integers.
-# It further looks into the existing tags, looking for ones that start with x.y.
-# If there is none, it will return x.y.0. Otherwise it will return x.y.z where z
-# is the highest existing value increase by one.
-#
-# Examples:
-# 1. The current git branch is 'release-1.0' and git has the tags '1.0.1', '1.0.2', 1.0.3':
-#    $ ./get-version-from-branch.sh
-#    1.0.4
-#
-# 2. The current branch is 'release-1.1' and git has no tags that start with '1.1':
-#    $ ./get-version-from-branch.sh
-#    1.0.0
-#
-# 3. The current branch is 'main':
-#    $ ./get-version-from-branch.sh
-#    Not on a release branch.
-#
-# Please note that this will exit with an error:
-#    ./get-version-from-branch.sh || echo "exit with error"
-#    Not on a release branch.
-#    exit with error
-#
-
-# Get the current branch name.
-current_branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
-
-# Check if the current branch is a release branch.
-if [[ $current_branch =~ ^release-([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)$ ]]; then
-	# Extract x and y from the branch name. BASH_REMATCH is an array variable
-	# automatically generated by pattern matching ([[ ... ]]).
-	x=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
-	y=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
-
-	# Find the highest z value for the matching tags.
-	highest_z=$(git tag -l "$x.$y.*" | cut -d '.' -f 3 | sort -n | tail -n 1)
-
-	# Increment the highest z value by 1 or set to 0 if no matching tags are found.
-	if [ -z "$highest_z" ]; then
-		next_z=0
-	else
-		next_z=$((highest_z + 1))
-	fi
-
-	# Return the new version.
-	new_version="${x}.${y}.${next_z}"
-	echo "${new_version}"
-	exit 0
-else
-	echo "Not on a release branch."
-	exit 1
-fi