This tool collects all issues that were fixed in some/the latest release and assigns them a corresponding milestone. In effect this milestone is basis for your release notes. This is the command line tool - a maven plugin is available too.
'org.bitbucket.daniel_schreiber.release-manager-for-bitbucket:bitbucket-release-manager:1.0.4'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.bitbucket.daniel_schreiber.release-manager-for-bitbucket</groupId>
<artifactId>bitbucket-release-manager</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.bitbucket.daniel_schreiber.release-manager-for-bitbucket" name="bitbucket-release-manager" rev="1.0.4"/>
"org.bitbucket.daniel_schreiber.release-manager-for-bitbucket", "bitbucket-release-manager", "1.0.4"