diff --git a/blog/before_build.py b/blog/before_build.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52b7a5b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blog/before_build.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import io
+from github import Github
+
+g = Github("e62e298b2a46ca5cf474cb9a4c0c1bc950b09d46")
+
+with io.open("layouts/partials/recent-updates.html", 'w', encoding='utf8') as recent_updates:
+    recent_updates.truncate()
+
+    recent_updates.write(u"<ul>\n")
+
+    for pr in g.search_issues("is:merged", repo="phil-opp/blog_os", type="pr", label="relnotes")[:5]:
+        link = '<a href="' + pr.html_url + '">' + pr.title + "</a> "
+        iso_date = pr.closed_at.isoformat()
+        readable_date = pr.closed_at.strftime("%b&nbsp;%d")
+        datetime = '<time datetime="' + iso_date + '">' + readable_date + '</datetime>'
+        recent_updates.write(u"  <li>" + link + datetime + "</li>\n")
+
+    recent_updates.write(u"</ul>")
diff --git a/blog/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html b/blog/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html
index 1e4e07e7..e69de29b 100644
--- a/blog/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html
+++ b/blog/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-<ul><li><a href='https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/235'>Add a “Recent Updates” section to the front page</a> <time datetime="2016-10-04 17:32:57 UTC">Oct 04</datetime><li><a href='https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/230'>Use crates.io version of multiboot2</a> <time datetime="2016-09-27 11:49:36 UTC">Sep 27</datetime><li><a href='https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/229'>Update bit_field to 0.5.0 and use new trait based API</a> <time datetime="2016-09-27 11:36:29 UTC">Sep 27</datetime><li><a href='https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/221'>Use rustup for cross compiling and also explain xargo</a> <time datetime="2016-09-22 13:59:20 UTC">Sep 22</datetime><li><a href='https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/pull/219'>“Returning from Exceptions”</a> <time datetime="2016-09-21 13:26:16 UTC">Sep 21</datetime></ul>
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diff --git a/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html b/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b137891..00000000
--- a/layouts/partials/recent-updates.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 521459ea..67c329ff 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 pygments
 pygments-github-lexers
+PyGithub