diff --git a/.github/release-drafter.yml b/.github/release-drafter.yml
index a4dce4c2b..5613d9471 100644
--- a/.github/release-drafter.yml
+++ b/.github/release-drafter.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
+change-template: "- #$NUMBER $TITLE @$AUTHOR"
+sort-direction: ascending
+
+categories:
+  - title: ":boom: Breaking Changes"
+    label: "breaking-change"
+
+  - title: ":wrench: Build"
+    label: "build"
+
+  - title: ":boar: Chore"
+    label: "chore"
+
+  - title: ":sparkles: New Features"
+    label: "new-feature"
+
+  - title: ":zap: Performance"
+    label: "performance"
+
+  - title: ":recycle: Refactor"
+    label: "refactor"
+
+  - title: ":green_heart: CI"
+    label: "ci"
+
+  - title: ":bug: Bug Fixes"
+    label: "bugfix"
+
+  - title: ":white_check_mark: Test"
+    label: "test"
+
+  - title: ":arrow_up: Dependency Updates"
+    label: "dependencies"
+
+include-labels:
+  - "breaking-change"
+  - "build"
+  - "chore"
+  - "performance"
+  - "refactor"
+  - "new-feature"
+  - "bugfix"
+  - "dependencies"
+  - "test"
+  - "ci"
+
 template: |
-  ## What's Changed
 
   $CHANGES
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml b/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
index 5b27fd671..2f3586020 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
@@ -2,14 +2,43 @@ name: Release Drafter
 
 on:
   push:
-    # branches to consider in the event; optional, defaults to all
     branches:
       - main
 
 jobs:
   update_release_draft:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Release Drafter
     steps:
-      - uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v5
+      - name: Checkout the repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Find Next Version
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          declare -i newpost
+          latest=$(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))
+          latestpre=$(echo "$latest" | awk '{split($0,a,"."); print a[1] "." a[2]}')
+          datepre=$(date --utc '+%Y.%m')
+
+
+          if [[ "$latestpre" == "$datepre" ]]; then
+              latestpost=$(echo "$latest" | awk '{split($0,a,"."); print a[3]}')
+              newpost=$latestpost+1
+          else
+              newpost=0
+          fi
+
+          echo Current version:    $latest
+          echo New target version: $datepre.$newpost
+          echo "::set-output name=version::$datepre.$newpost"
+
+      - name: Run Release Drafter
+        uses: release-drafter/release-drafter@v5
+        with:
+          tag: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+          name: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}