Support for auto generated "Release notes" in GitLab

We are planning on migrating from Jira+Gerrit to GitLab. One important feature that we are using in Jira is the auto generation of release notes.

Question: Is there any similar functionality in GitLab?

Is GitLab release management tool?

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Does GitLab support pull requests?

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Well, update to gitlab 8.2.0 https://about.gitlab.com/2015/11/22/gitlab-8-2-released/

It says you have the ability to add release notes (markdown text and attachments) to git tags (aka Releases).

Now just create a tag per release, and then you'll see the markdown.