diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..168b92317
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.. include:: docs/sources/release_notes.rst
diff --git a/docs/source/release_notes.rst b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
index 8b0663706..d02e2f71e 100644
--- a/docs/source/release_notes.rst
+++ b/docs/source/release_notes.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ Availability: `AutomationHub`_, `Galaxy`_, `GitHub`_
   adapter gets renamed to another existing adapter and rejects that just
   as in non-check mode.
 
+* Added CHANGELOG.rst file to satisfy requirement for RedHat Automation Hub.
+  For now, it includes release_notes.rst. A transition to fragments-based
+  creation of CHANGELOG.rst is postponed because the unified documentation
+  for the IBM Z set of collections first needs to find a common solution
+  for all of its collections.
+
 **Cleanup:**
 
 * Test: Changed identification of adapters in end2end test module