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As one of the most important software artifacts, release reports include most essential changes of software systems in each release. These reports are useful for documenting team activities, improving communication between team members and facilitating decision makings. They are often generated manually by a team member, which can be a tedious and time-consuming task. For each release, one should go through hundreds of issue reports, changed files, source code, and other related documents to determine what has changed and why. Then they need to identify the most important and relevant changes. Therefore, automated generation of release reports can be highly desirable. Despite the...