diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc1b740
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#
+# https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference
+# https://github.com/actions
+#
+
+name: REL
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags: ["v[0-9]*"]
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    name: "Publish"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+
+      - name: "Checkout code"
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: "Setup Python"
+        id: setup
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.8"
+
+      - name: "Build tarball"
+        id: build
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install setuptools wheel
+          echo "::group::sdist"
+          PACKAGE=$(python setup.py --name)
+          VERSION=$(python setup.py --version)
+          TGZ="${PACKAGE}-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+          test "${{github.ref}}" = "refs/tags/v${VERSION}" || { echo "ERR: tag mismatch"; exit 1; }
+          python setup.py sdist
+          test -f "dist/${TGZ}" || { echo "ERR: sdist failed"; exit 1; }
+          echo "::set-env name=PACKAGE::${PACKAGE}"
+          echo "::set-env name=VERSION::${VERSION}"
+          echo "::set-env name=TGZ::${TGZ}"
+          echo "::endgroup::"
+
+      - name: "Install pandoc"
+        id: install-pandoc
+        run: |
+          sudo -nH apt-get -u -y install pandoc
+          pandoc --version
+
+      - name: "Prepare release notes"
+        id: prepare-notes
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p tmp
+          make -s shownote > tmp/note.md
+          cat tmp/note.md
+
+      - name: "Create release"
+        id: release
+        uses: actions/create-release@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+        with:
+          tag_name: ${{github.ref}}
+          release_name: ${{env.PACKAGE}} v${{env.VERSION}}
+          body_path: tmp/note.md
+          prerelease: ${{contains(env.VERSION, 'a') || contains(env.VERSION, 'b') || contains(env.VERSION, 'rc')}}
+          draft: true
+
+      - name: "Upload source"
+        id: upload
+        uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}
+        with:
+          upload_url: ${{steps.release.outputs.upload_url}}
+          asset_path: dist/${{env.TGZ}}
+          asset_name: ${{env.TGZ}}
+          asset_content_type: application/x-gzip
+
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1c1f3a6..61246ee 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 
-VER := $(shell python3 setup.py --version)
-TGZ = dist/rarfile-$(VER).tar.gz
-
 prefix = /usr/local
 
+REPO = https://github.com/markokr/rarfile
+NEWS = doc/news.rst
+
+PACKAGE = $(shell python3 setup.py --name)
+VERSION = $(shell python3 setup.py --version)
+RXVERSION = $(shell python3 setup.py --version | sed 's/\./[.]/g')
+TAG = v$(VERSION)
+TGZ = dist/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+URL = $(REPO)/releases/download/v$(VERSION)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+
 all:
 	pyflakes3 rarfile.py
 	tox -e lint
@@ -12,8 +19,6 @@ all:
 install:
 	python setup.py install --prefix=$(prefix)
 
-sdist: clean $(TGZ)
-
 clean:
 	rm -rf __pycache__ build dist .tox
 	rm -f *.pyc MANIFEST *.orig *.rej *.html *.class test/*.pyc
@@ -25,15 +30,33 @@ clean:
 toxclean: clean
 	rm -rf .tox
 
-$(TGZ):
-	rm -f dist/*
-	python3 setup.py sdist
-
-upload: $(TGZ)
-	twine upload $(TGZ)
-
 ack:
 	for fn in test/files/*.py27; do \
 		cp $$fn `echo $$fn | sed 's/py27/exp/'` || exit 1; \
 	done
 
+prepare:
+	@echo "Checking version - $(VERSION)"
+	@grep -qE '^\w+ $(RXVERSION)\b' $(NEWS) \
+	|| { echo "Version '$(VERSION)' not in $(NEWS)"; exit 1; }
+	@echo "Checking git repo"
+	@git diff --stat --exit-code || { echo "ERROR: Unclean repo"; exit 1; }
+
+release: prepare
+	git tag $(TAG)
+	git push github $(TAG):$(TAG)
+
+upload:
+	mkdir -p dist && rm -f dist/*
+	cd dist && wget -q $(URL)
+	tar tvf $(TGZ)
+	twine upload $(TGZ)
+
+shownote:
+	awk -v VER="$(VERSION)" -f doc/note.awk $(NEWS) \
+	| pandoc -f rst -t gfm --wrap=none
+
+unrelease:
+	git push github :$(TAG)
+	git tag -d $(TAG)
+
diff --git a/doc/news.rst b/doc/news.rst
index 25a5a65..a9a27a0 100644
--- a/doc/news.rst
+++ b/doc/news.rst
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ rarfile history
 
 .. py:currentmodule:: rarfile
 
-unreleased
-----------
+Version 3.2a1 (2020-07-20)
+--------------------------
 
 New features:
 
diff --git a/doc/note.awk b/doc/note.awk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5f1a5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/note.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# extract version notes for version VER
+
+/^[-_0-9a-zA-Z]+ v?[0-9]/ {
+    if ($2 == VER) {
+        good = 1
+        next
+    } else {
+        good = 0
+    }
+}
+
+/^(===|---)/ { next }
+
+{
+    if (good) {
+        # also remove sphinx syntax
+        print gensub(/:(data|class|attr|meth):`([^`]+)`/, "``\\2``", "g")
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/rarfile.py b/rarfile.py
index 64a8169..59de75a 100644
--- a/rarfile.py
+++ b/rarfile.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # rarfile.py
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2005-2019  Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
+# Copyright (c) 2005-2020  Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
 #
 # Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
 # purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def tohex(data):
     return hexlify(data).decode("ascii")
 
 
-__version__ = "3.1"
+__version__ = "3.2a1"
 
 # export only interesting items
 __all__ = ["is_rarfile", "is_rarfile_sfx", "RarInfo", "RarFile", "RarExtFile"]