diff --git a/.eslintrc.js b/.eslintrc.js
index 8cd6fd26fa..2c10f6ab5e 100644
--- a/.eslintrc.js
+++ b/.eslintrc.js
@@ -22,15 +22,16 @@ module.exports = {
     {
       files: [
         "**/*.js",
+        "**/*.mjs",
       ],
       extends: [
         "eslint:recommended",
       ],
       env: {
         node: true,
+        es2022: true,
       },
       parserOptions: {
-        ecmaVersion: 2018,
         sourceType: "module",
       },
       plugins: [
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0e15275d6a..0e6d7168d7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@
     "@types/chart.js": "^2.9.36",
     "@types/cli-progress": "^3.9.2",
     "@types/color": "^3.0.3",
+    "@types/command-line-args": "^5.2.0",
     "@types/crypto-js": "^3.1.47",
     "@types/dompurify": "^2.3.3",
     "@types/electron-devtools-installer": "^2.2.1",
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@
     "circular-dependency-plugin": "^5.2.2",
     "cli-progress": "^3.11.0",
     "color": "^3.2.1",
+    "command-line-args": "^5.2.1",
     "concurrently": "^7.1.0",
     "css-loader": "^6.7.1",
     "deepdash": "^5.3.9",
diff --git a/scripts/clear-release-pr.mjs b/scripts/clear-release-pr.mjs
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..4b55384e61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/clear-release-pr.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) OpenLens Authors. All rights reserved.
+ * Licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE in root directory for more information.
+ */
+
+// This script creates a release PR
+import { execSync, exec, spawn } from "child_process";
+import commandLineArgs from "command-line-args";
+import fse from "fs-extra";
+import { basename } from "path";
+import semver from "semver";
+import { promisify } from "util";
+
+const {
+  SemVer,
+  valid: semverValid,
+  rcompare: semverRcompare,
+  lte: semverLte,
+} = semver;
+const { readJsonSync } = fse;
+const execP = promisify(exec);
+
+const options = commandLineArgs([
+  {
+    name: "type",
+    defaultOption: true,
+  },
+  {
+    name: "preid",
+  },
+]);
+
+const validReleaseValues = [
+  "major",
+  "minor",
+  "patch",
+];
+const validPrereleaseValues = [
+  "premajor",
+  "preminor",
+  "prepatch",
+  "prerelease",
+];
+const validPreidValues = [
+  "alpha",
+  "beta",
+];
+
+const errorMessages = {
+  noReleaseType: `No release type provided. Valid options are: ${[...validReleaseValues, ...validPrereleaseValues].join(", ")}`,
+  invalidRelease: (invalid) => `Invalid release type was provided (value was "${invalid}"). Valid options are: ${[...validReleaseValues, ...validPrereleaseValues].join(", ")}`,
+  noPreid: `No preid was provided. Use '--preid' to specify. Valid options are: ${validPreidValues.join(", ")}`,
+  invalidPreid: (invalid) => `Invalid preid was provided (value was "${invalid}"). Valid options are: ${validPreidValues.join(", ")}`,
+  wrongCwd: "It looks like you are running this script from the 'scripts' directory. This script assumes it is run from the root of the git repo",
+};
+
+if (!options.type) {
+  console.error(errorMessages.noReleaseType);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (validReleaseValues.includes(options.type)) {
+  // do nothing, is valid
+} else if (validPrereleaseValues.includes(options.type)) {
+  if (!options.preid) {
+    console.error(errorMessages.noPreid);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+
+  if (!validPreidValues.includes(options.preid)) {
+    console.error(errorMessages.invalidPreid(options.preid));
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+} else {
+  console.error(errorMessages.invalidRelease(options.type));
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (basename(process.cwd()) === "scripts") {
+  console.error(errorMessages.wrongCwd);
+}
+
+
+const currentVersion = new SemVer(readJsonSync("./package.json").version);
+const currentVersionMilestone = `${currentVersion.major}.${currentVersion.minor}.${currentVersion.patch}`;
+
+console.log(`current version: ${currentVersion.format()}`);
+console.log("fetching tags...");
+execSync("git fetch --tags --force");
+
+const actualTags = execSync("git tag --list", { encoding: "utf-8" }).split(/\r?\n/).map(line => line.trim());
+const [previousReleasedVersion] = actualTags
+  .map(semverValid)
+  .filter(Boolean)
+  .sort(semverRcompare)
+  .filter(version => semverLte(version, currentVersion));
+
+const npmVersionArgs = [
+  "npm",
+  "version",
+  options.type,
+];
+
+if (options.preid) {
+  npmVersionArgs.push(`--preid=${options.preid}`);
+}
+
+npmVersionArgs.push("--git-tag-version false");
+
+execSync(npmVersionArgs.join(" "), { stdio: "ignore" });
+
+const newVersion = new SemVer(readJsonSync("./package.json").version);
+
+const getMergedPrsArgs = [
+  "gh",
+  "pr",
+  "list",
+  "--limit=500", // Should be big enough, if not we need to release more often ;)
+  "--state=merged",
+  "--base=master",
+  "--json mergeCommit,title,author,labels,number,milestone",
+];
+
+console.log("retreiving last 500 PRs to create release PR body...");
+const mergedPrs = JSON.parse(execSync(getMergedPrsArgs.join(" "), { encoding: "utf-8" }));
+const milestoneRelevantPrs = mergedPrs.filter(pr => pr.milestone && pr.milestone.title === currentVersionMilestone);
+const relaventPrsQuery = await Promise.all(
+  milestoneRelevantPrs.map(async pr => ({
+    pr,
+    stdout: (await execP(`git tag v${previousReleasedVersion} --no-contains ${pr.mergeCommit.oid}`)).stdout,
+  })),
+);
+const relaventPrs = relaventPrsQuery
+  .filter(query => query.stdout)
+  .map(query => query.pr);
+
+const enhancementPrLabelName = "enhancement";
+const bugfixPrLabelName = "bug";
+
+const enhancementPrs = relaventPrs.filter(pr => pr.labels.some(label => label.name === enhancementPrLabelName));
+const bugfixPrs = relaventPrs.filter(pr => pr.labels.some(label => label.name === bugfixPrLabelName));
+const maintenencePrs = relaventPrs.filter(pr => pr.labels.every(label => label.name !== bugfixPrLabelName && label.name !== enhancementPrLabelName));
+
+console.log("Found:");
+console.log(`${enhancementPrs.length} enhancement PRs`);
+console.log(`${bugfixPrs.length} bug fix PRs`);
+console.log(`${maintenencePrs.length} maintenence PRs`);
+
+const prBodyLines = [
+  `## Changes since ${previousReleasedVersion}`,
+  "",
+];
+
+if (enhancementPrs.length > 0) {
+  prBodyLines.push(
+    "## 🚀 Features",
+    "",
+    ...enhancementPrs.map(pr => `- ${pr.title} (**#${pr.number}**) https://github.com/${pr.author.login}`),
+    "",
+  );
+}
+
+if (bugfixPrs.length > 0) {
+  prBodyLines.push(
+    "## 🐛 Bug Fixes",
+    "",
+    ...bugfixPrs.map(pr => `- ${pr.title} (**#${pr.number}**) https://github.com/${pr.author.login}`),
+    "",
+  );
+}
+
+if (maintenencePrs.length > 0) {
+  prBodyLines.push(
+    "## 🧰 Maintenance",
+    "",
+    ...maintenencePrs.map(pr => `- ${pr.title} (**#${pr.number}**) https://github.com/${pr.author.login}`),
+    "",
+  );
+}
+
+const prBody = prBodyLines.join("\n");
+const prBase = newVersion.patch === 0
+  ? "master"
+  : `release/v${newVersion.major}.${newVersion.minor}`;
+const createPrArgs = [
+  "pr",
+  "create",
+  "--base", prBase,
+  "--title", `release ${newVersion.format()}`,
+  "--label", "skip-changelog",
+  "--body-file", "-",
+];
+
+const createPrProcess = spawn("gh", createPrArgs, { stdio: "pipe" });
+let result = "";
+
+createPrProcess.stdout.on("data", (chunk) => result += chunk);
+
+createPrProcess.stdin.write(prBody);
+createPrProcess.stdin.end();
+
+await new Promise((resolve) => {
+  createPrProcess.on("close", () => {
+    createPrProcess.stdout.removeAllListeners();
+    resolve();
+  });
+});
+
+console.log(result);
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 45b3738ea7..564b4e973b 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1426,6 +1426,11 @@
   dependencies:
     "@types/color-convert" "*"
 
+"@types/command-line-args@^5.2.0":
+  version "5.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/command-line-args/-/command-line-args-5.2.0.tgz#adbb77980a1cc376bb208e3f4142e907410430f6"
+  integrity sha512-UuKzKpJJ/Ief6ufIaIzr3A/0XnluX7RvFgwkV89Yzvm77wCh1kFaFmqN8XEnGcN62EuHdedQjEMb8mYxFLGPyA==
+
 "@types/connect-history-api-fallback@^1.3.5":
   version "1.3.5"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/connect-history-api-fallback/-/connect-history-api-fallback-1.3.5.tgz#d1f7a8a09d0ed5a57aee5ae9c18ab9b803205dae"
@@ -2820,6 +2825,11 @@ arr-union@^3.1.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/arr-union/-/arr-union-3.1.0.tgz#e39b09aea9def866a8f206e288af63919bae39c4"
   integrity sha1-45sJrqne+Gao8gbiiK9jkZuuOcQ=
 
+array-back@^3.0.1, array-back@^3.1.0:
+  version "3.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/array-back/-/array-back-3.1.0.tgz#b8859d7a508871c9a7b2cf42f99428f65e96bfb0"
+  integrity sha512-TkuxA4UCOvxuDK6NZYXCalszEzj+TLszyASooky+i742l9TqsOdYCMJJupxRic61hwquNtppB3hgcuq9SVSH1Q==
+
 array-flatten@1.1.1:
   version "1.1.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/array-flatten/-/array-flatten-1.1.1.tgz#9a5f699051b1e7073328f2a008968b64ea2955d2"
@@ -3904,6 +3914,16 @@ combined-stream@^1.0.6, combined-stream@^1.0.8, combined-stream@~1.0.6:
   dependencies:
     delayed-stream "~1.0.0"
 
+command-line-args@^5.2.1:
+  version "5.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/command-line-args/-/command-line-args-5.2.1.tgz#c44c32e437a57d7c51157696893c5909e9cec42e"
+  integrity sha512-H4UfQhZyakIjC74I9d34fGYDwk3XpSr17QhEd0Q3I9Xq1CETHo4Hcuo87WyWHpAF1aSLjLRf5lD9ZGX2qStUvg==
+  dependencies:
+    array-back "^3.1.0"
+    find-replace "^3.0.0"
+    lodash.camelcase "^4.3.0"
+    typical "^4.0.0"
+
 commander@2.9.0:
   version "2.9.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/commander/-/commander-2.9.0.tgz#9c99094176e12240cb22d6c5146098400fe0f7d4"
@@ -5908,6 +5928,13 @@ find-npm-prefix@^1.0.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/find-npm-prefix/-/find-npm-prefix-1.0.2.tgz#8d8ce2c78b3b4b9e66c8acc6a37c231eb841cfdf"
   integrity sha512-KEftzJ+H90x6pcKtdXZEPsQse8/y/UnvzRKrOSQFprnrGaFuJ62fVkP34Iu2IYuMvyauCyoLTNkJZgrrGA2wkA==
 
+find-replace@^3.0.0:
+  version "3.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/find-replace/-/find-replace-3.0.0.tgz#3e7e23d3b05167a76f770c9fbd5258b0def68c38"
+  integrity sha512-6Tb2myMioCAgv5kfvP5/PkZZ/ntTpVK39fHY7WkWBgvbeE+VHd/tZuZ4mrC+bxh4cfOZeYKVPaJIZtZXV7GNCQ==
+  dependencies:
+    array-back "^3.0.1"
+
 find-root@^1.1.0:
   version "1.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/find-root/-/find-root-1.1.0.tgz#abcfc8ba76f708c42a97b3d685b7e9450bfb9ce4"
@@ -13146,6 +13173,11 @@ typescript@^4.5.5:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript/-/typescript-4.5.5.tgz#d8c953832d28924a9e3d37c73d729c846c5896f3"
   integrity sha512-TCTIul70LyWe6IJWT8QSYeA54WQe8EjQFU4wY52Fasj5UKx88LNYKCgBEHcOMOrFF1rKGbD8v/xcNWVUq9SymA==
 
+typical@^4.0.0:
+  version "4.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typical/-/typical-4.0.0.tgz#cbeaff3b9d7ae1e2bbfaf5a4e6f11eccfde94fc4"
+  integrity sha512-VAH4IvQ7BDFYglMd7BPRDfLgxZZX4O4TFcRDA6EN5X7erNJJq+McIEp8np9aVtxrCJ6qx4GTYVfOWNjcqwZgRw==
+
 uglify-js@^3.1.4:
   version "3.9.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-3.9.4.tgz#867402377e043c1fc7b102253a22b64e5862401b"