diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 02f64d8..02c8912 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -377,6 +377,19 @@ to set the version number in the man pages and README repology minversion.
 Use of the script without meson is discouraged because meson.build is
 not touched by the script.
 
+##### Create Release Artefacts
+
+Once a release is completely ready to be published, the commit is tagged with the
+version on the master branch etc. release artefacts have to be created.
+
+To aid this use:
+
+```
+meson compile create-artefacts -C build
+```
+
+Use of the script version is discouraged.
+
 ### GCC and -fanalyzer
 
 Cagebreak should compile with any reasonably new gcc or clang. Consider
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b31f8ff..57ef6b8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -365,6 +365,9 @@ run_target('create-sigs',
 run_target('set-ver',
   command : ['scripts/set-version', meson.project_version()])
 
+run_target('create-artefacts',
+  command : ['scripts/create-release-artefacts', get_option('gpg_id'), meson.project_version()])
+
 # Test Suite
 
 test('Build without warnings', find_program('test/build-w-o-warnings'), env : [ ''.join('MESONCURRENTCONFIGDIR=', meson.current_source_dir()) ], suite: 'devel')
diff --git a/scripts/create-release-artefacts b/scripts/create-release-artefacts
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2049725
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/create-release-artefacts
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2023, project-repo and the cagebreak contributors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+if [[ -n ${MESON_SOURCE_ROOT} ]]
+then
+	# shellcheck disable=2164
+	cd "${MESON_SOURCE_ROOT}"
+fi
+
+readonly gpg_id="${1}"
+readonly version="${2}"
+
+git archive --prefix=cagebreak/ -o "release_${version}".tar.gz tags/version .
+
+rm -rf "release-artefacts_${version}"
+mkdir "release-artefacts_${version}"
+
+rm -rf temp-rel-artefacts
+meson setup temp-rel-artefacts -Dxwayland=true -Dman-pages=true --buildtype=release
+ninja -C temp-rel-artefacts
+
+cp LICENSE "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp SECURITY.md "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp FAQ.md "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp README.md "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp temp-rel-artefacts/cagebreak "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp temp-rel-artefacts/cagebreak.1 "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp temp-rel-artefacts/cagebreak-config.5 "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp temp-rel-artefacts/cagebreak-socket.7 "release-artefacts_${version}"
+cp signatures/cagebreak*.sig "release-artefacts_${version}"
+
+export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(git log -1 --pretty=%ct) ; tar --sort=name --mtime= --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner -czf release-artefacts_${version}.tar.gz release-artefacts_${version}
+
+gpg -u "${gpg_id}" --detach-sign "release-artefacts_${version}.tar.gz"
+gpg -u "${gpg_id}" --detach-sign "release_${version}.tar.gz"
+
+
+rm -rf temp-rel-artefacts