diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4c3472166..678471319 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -283,6 +283,14 @@ add_custom_target(generate_pdf
   -P generate-pdf.cmake
   COMMENT "Generating PDF files" VERBATIM) 
 
+add_custom_target(generate_txt_release
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation ${CMAKE_COMMAND} 
+  -DBUILD_DIR=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+  -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} 
+  -P generate-txt-release.cmake
+  COMMENT "Generating TXT release notes" VERBATIM) 
+
 
 add_custom_target(generate_html
   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/Documentation ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/Documentation
diff --git a/Documentation/format.pl b/Documentation/format.pl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..461412fed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/format.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+open(my $in,"<",@ARGV[0]);
+open(my $out,">",@ARGV[1]);
+my $tbl = 0;
+while(<$in>){
+    if(/<table>/)
+    {
+        $tbl = 1;
+    }
+    elsif(/<\/table>/)
+    {
+        $tbl = 0;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        if($tbl == 1)
+        {
+            s/\n//;
+            s/<\/tr>/\n/;
+            s/<td>//;
+            s/<tr>//;
+            s/<\/td>/\t/;
+            s/^ +//;
+            s/ +$//;
+        }
+        s/[*]/\t/;
+        print $out "$_";
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/Documentation/generate-txt-release.cmake b/Documentation/generate-txt-release.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f963e5b55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/generate-txt-release.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# The BUILD_DIR variable is set at runtime
+
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
+
+set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/")
+
+file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${BUILD_DIR}/txt)
+file(GLOB_RECURSE MARKDOWN Release-Notes/*.md)
+foreach(VAR ${MARKDOWN})
+  get_filename_component(NEWNAME ${VAR} NAME)
+  execute_process(COMMAND perl ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/format.pl ${VAR} ${BUILD_DIR}/txt/${NEWNAME}.txt)
+endforeach()