diff --git a/doc/authors.md b/doc/authors.md
index 9ac74117a..9f6c9d45d 100644
--- a/doc/authors.md
+++ b/doc/authors.md
@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 Zcash Contributors
 ==================
 
-Jack Grigg (356)
-Simon Liu (236)
+Jack Grigg (367)
+Simon Liu (250)
 Sean Bowe (183)
 Taylor Hornby (65)
-Daira Hopwood (64)
+Daira Hopwood (65)
+Jonas Schnelli (47)
+Jay Graber (39)
 Kevin Gallagher (38)
-Jay Graber (35)
-Jonas Schnelli (24)
-Wladimir J. van der Laan (20)
-Cory Fields (11)
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (30)
+Cory Fields (13)
+Pieter Wuille (11)
 Nathan Wilcox (10)
-Pieter Wuille (8)
+nomnombtc (9)
 Paige Peterson (5)
 Johnathan Corgan (5)
 fanquake (4)
+Philip Kaufmann (4)
+Matt Corallo (4)
 Jeff Garzik (4)
 David Mercer (4)
 lpescher (3)
@@ -26,29 +29,47 @@ Alfie John (3)
 aniemerg (2)
 Scott (2)
 Robert C. Seacord (2)
+Peter Todd (2)
 João Barbosa (2)
 Joe Turgeon (2)
 ITH4Coinomia (2)
 Gregory Maxwell (2)
+Gavin Andresen (2)
+zathras-crypto (1)
 paveljanik (1)
+mruddy (1)
 mrbandrews (1)
 kazcw (1)
 isle2983 (1)
+dexX7 (1)
 ayleph (1)
 Tom Ritter (1)
+Stephen (1)
 S. Matthew English (1)
-Philip Kaufmann (1)
+Pavel Vasin (1)
+Paul Georgiou (1)
 Paragon Initiative Enterprises, LLC (1)
+Murilo Santana (1)
+Luke Dashjr (1)
 Louis Nyffenegger (1)
+Leo Arias (1)
 Lars-Magnus Skog (1)
+Jorge Timón (1)
 Jeffrey Walton (1)
 Gaurav Rana (1)
+Forrest Voight (1)
+Florian Schmaus (1)
 Ethan Heilman (1)
 Eran Tromer (1)
+Daniel Kraft (1)
 Christian von Roques (1)
 Chirag Davé (1)
+Casey Rodarmor (1)
 Cameron Boehmer (1)
 Bryan Stitt (1)
 Bitcoin Error Log (1)
+Allan Niemerg (1)
+Alex van der Peet (1)
 Alex (1)
+Adam Weiss (1)
 4ZEC (1)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.7.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.7.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94681f0d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.7.md
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+Adam Weiss (1):
+      Buffer log messages and explicitly open logs
+
+Alex van der Peet (1):
+      New RPC command disconnectnode
+
+Allan Niemerg (1):
+      Pause mining during joinsplit creation
+
+Casey Rodarmor (1):
+      Don't share objects between TestInstances
+
+Cory Fields (2):
+      locking: teach Clang's -Wthread-safety to cope with our scoped lock macros
+      locking: add a quick example of GUARDED_BY
+
+Daira Hopwood (1):
+      Don't assume sizes of unsigned short and unsigned int in GetSizeOfCompactSize and WriteCompactSize. Fixes #2137
+
+Daniel Kraft (1):
+      Fix univalue handling of \u0000 characters.
+
+Florian Schmaus (1):
+      Add BITCOIND_SIGTERM_TIMEOUT to OpenRC init scripts
+
+Forrest Voight (1):
+      When processing RPC commands during warmup phase, parse the request object before returning an error so that id value can be used in the response.
+
+Gavin Andresen (2):
+      configure --enable-debug changes
+      Testing infrastructure: mocktime fixes
+
+Jack Grigg (11):
+      Remove reference to -reindex-chainstate
+      Treat metrics screen as non-interactive for now
+      Adjust gen-manpages.sh for Zcash, use in Debian builds
+      Regenerate and collate Zcash manpages, delete Bitcoin ones
+      Update release process with gen-manpages.sh
+      Adjust blockheaderToJSON() for Zcash block header
+      Adjust fundrawtransaction RPC test for Zcash
+      Re-encode t-addrs in disablewallet.py with Zcash prefixes
+      BTC -> ZEC in paytxfee RPC docs
+      Update default RPC port in help strings
+      Fix typo in listbanned RPC keys
+
+Jay Graber (4):
+      Add rpc test for prioritisetransaction
+      Inc num of txs in test mempool
+      Update release to 1.0.7, generate manpages
+      Add 1.0.7 release notes and update authors.md
+
+Jonas Schnelli (23):
+      [net] extend core functionallity for ban/unban/listban
+      [RPC] add setban/listbanned/clearbanned RPC commands
+      [QA] add setban/listbanned/clearbanned tests
+      [net] remove unused return type bool from CNode::Ban()
+      [RPC] extend setban to allow subnets
+      rename json field "bannedtill" to "banned_until"
+      setban: rewrite to UniValue, allow absolute bantime
+      fix CSubNet comparison operator
+      setban: add RPCErrorCode
+      add RPC tests for setban & disconnectnode
+      fix missing lock in CNode::ClearBanned()
+      setban: add IPv6 tests
+      fix lock issue for QT node diconnect and RPC disconnectnode
+      fundrawtransaction tests
+      UniValue: don't escape solidus, keep espacing of reverse solidus
+      [REST] add JSON support for /rest/headers/
+      [QA] fix possible reorg issue in rawtransaction.py/fundrawtransaction.py RPC test
+      [QA] remove rawtransactions.py from the extended test list
+      [QA] add testcases for parsing strings as values
+      [bitcoin-cli] improve error output
+      fix and extend CBitcoinExtKeyBase template
+      extend bip32 tests to cover Base58c/CExtKey decode
+      don't try to decode invalid encoded ext keys
+
+Jorge Timón (1):
+      Consensus: Refactor: Separate Consensus::CheckTxInputs and GetSpendHeight in CheckInputs
+
+Leo Arias (1):
+      Fix the path to the example configuration
+
+Luke Dashjr (1):
+      Fix various warnings
+
+Matt Corallo (4):
+      Small tweaks to CCoinControl for fundrawtransaction
+      Add FundTransaction method to wallet
+      Add fundrawtransaction RPC method
+      Assert on probable deadlocks if the second lock isnt try_lock
+
+Murilo Santana (1):
+      Fix sha256sum on busybox by using -c instead of --check
+
+Paul Georgiou (1):
+      Update Linearize tool to support Windows paths
+
+Pavel Vasin (1):
+      remove unused inv from ConnectTip()
+
+Peter Todd (2):
+      Add getblockheader RPC call
+      Improve comment explaining purpose of MAX_MONEY constant
+
+Philip Kaufmann (3):
+      use const references where appropriate
+      [init] add -blockversion help and extend -upnp help
+      make CAddrMan::size() return the correct type of size_t
+
+Pieter Wuille (3):
+      Do not ask a UI question from bitcoind
+      Add DummySignatureCreator which just creates zeroed sigs
+      Reduce checkpoints' effect on consensus.
+
+Simon Liu (14):
+      Alert 1000
+      Alert 1001
+      Add assert to check alert message length is valid
+      Fix bug where test was generating but not saving keys to wallet on disk.
+      Update founders reward addresses for testnet
+      Keep first three original testnet fr addresses so existing coinbase transactions on testnet remain valid during upgrade.  New addresses will be used starting from block 53127.
+      Closes #2083 and #2088. Update release process documentation
+      Closes #2084. Fix incorrect year in timestamp.
+      Closes #2112 where z_getoperationresult could return stale status.
+      Add mainnet checkpoint at block 67500
+      Add testnet checkpoint at block 38000
+      Closes #1969. Default fee now sufficient for large shielded tx.
+      Part of #1969. Changing min fee calculation also changes the dust threshold.
+      Part of #1969. Update tests to avoid error 'absurdly high fee' from change in min fee calc.
+
+Stephen (1):
+      Add paytxfee to getwalletinfo, warnings to getnetworkinfo
+
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (10):
+      rpc: make `gettxoutsettinfo` run lock-free
+      test: Move reindex test to standard tests
+      rpc: Remove chain-specific RequireRPCPassword
+      univalue: Avoid unnecessary roundtrip through double for numbers
+      rpc: Accept strings in AmountFromValue
+      Fix crash in validateaddress with -disablewallet
+      Improve proxy initialization
+      tests: Extend RPC proxy tests
+      build: Remove -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE
+      tests: Fix bitcoin-tx signing testcase
+
+dexX7 (1):
+      Return all available information via validateaddress
+
+mruddy (1):
+      add tests for the decodescript rpc. add mention of the rpc regression tests to the testing seciton of the main readme.
+
+nomnombtc (9):
+      add script to generate manpages with help2man
+      add gen-manpages.sh description to README.md
+      add autogenerated manpages by help2man
+      add doc/man/Makefile.am to include manpages
+      add doc/man to subdir if configure flag --enable-man is set
+      add conditional for --enable-man, default is yes
+      change help string --enable-man to --disable-man
+      regenerated all manpages with commit tag stripped, also add bitcoin-tx
+      improved gen-manpages.sh, includes bitcoin-tx and strips commit tag, now also runs binaries from build dir by default, added variables for more control
+
+zathras-crypto (1):
+      Exempt unspendable transaction outputs from dust checks
+
diff --git a/zcutil/release-notes.py b/zcutil/release-notes.py
index 93daf63f8..bccabcaac 100644
--- a/zcutil/release-notes.py
+++ b/zcutil/release-notes.py
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ def document_authors():
 ## Writes release note to ./doc/release-notes based on git shortlog when current version number is specified
 def generate_release_note(version, filename):
     print "Automatically generating release notes for {0} from git shortlog. Should review {1} for accuracy.".format(version, filename)
+    # fetches latest tags, so that latest_tag will be correct
+    subprocess.Popen(['git fetch'], shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
     latest_tag = subprocess.Popen(['git describe --abbrev=0'], shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()
     print "Previous release tag: ", latest_tag
     notes = subprocess.Popen(['git shortlog --no-merges {0}..HEAD'.format(latest_tag)], shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]