diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 18d9f8ea..16913b17 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+      - release/**
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main
diff --git a/release/create_src_release.sh b/release/create_src_release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..0312e926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/create_src_release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+set -e
+
+# check git branch
+curr_branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+if [[ ! $curr_branch == release/* ]]; then
+  echo "Branch does not start with 'release/'"
+  exit 1
+else
+  echo "❗️  On branch $curr_branch"
+fi
+
+# check release version
+hudi_version=${HUDI_VERSION}
+if [ -z "${hudi_version}" ]; then
+	echo "HUDI_VERSION is not set; Please specify the target hudi version to release, e.g., 0.1.0-rc.1"
+	exit 1
+else
+	echo "❗️  Releasing Hudi version $hudi_version"
+fi
+
+# check release version against git tag
+curr_tag=$(git describe --exact-match --tags)
+if [ ! "$curr_tag" == "release-$hudi_version" ]; then
+  echo "Tag '$curr_tag' does not match with release version $hudi_version"
+else
+  echo "❗️  On tag $curr_tag"
+fi
+
+# make sure a desired key is specified
+gpg_user_id=${GPG_USER_ID}
+if [ -z "${gpg_user_id}" ]; then
+	echo "GPG_USER_ID is not set; run 'gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long' to choose a key."
+	exit 1
+else
+	echo "❗️  Signing using key '$gpg_user_id'"
+fi
+
+
+work_dir="$TMPDIR$(date +'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')"
+hudi_src_rel_dir="$work_dir/hudi-rs-$hudi_version"
+echo ">>> Archiving branch $curr_branch to $hudi_src_rel_dir"
+mkdir -p "$hudi_src_rel_dir"
+git archive --format=tar.gz --output="$hudi_src_rel_dir/hudi-rs-$hudi_version.src.tar.gz" "$curr_branch"
+echo "Done archiving."
+
+pushd "$hudi_src_rel_dir"
+echo ">>> Generating signature"
+for i in *.tar.gz; do
+	echo "$i"
+	gpg --local-user "$gpg_user_id" --armor --output "$i.asc" --detach-sig "$i"
+done
+echo ">>> Checking signature"
+for i in *.tar.gz; do
+	echo "$i"
+	gpg --local-user "$gpg_user_id" --verify "$i.asc" "$i"
+done
+echo ">>> Generating sha512sum"
+if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
+    SHASUM="shasum -a 512"
+else
+    SHASUM="sha512sum"
+fi
+for i in *.tar.gz; do
+	echo "$i"
+	$SHASUM "$i" >"$i.sha512"
+done
+echo ">>> Checking sha512sum"
+for i in *.tar.gz; do
+	echo "$i"
+	$SHASUM --check "$i.sha512"
+done
+
+echo "✅  SUCCESS! Created source release at $hudi_src_rel_dir"
+for i in $(ls -a "$hudi_src_rel_dir"); do echo "|___$i"; done;
+popd
+
+svn_dev_url="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/hudi"
+svn_dir="$work_dir/svn_dev"
+echo ">>> Checking out svn dev to $svn_dir"
+svn checkout $svn_dev_url --depth=immediates "$svn_dir"
+echo ">>> Copying source release files to $svn_dir"
+cp "$hudi_src_rel_dir" "$svn_dir/"
+
+echo "❗️  [ACTION REQUIRED] Manually commit the source release to SVN."
+echo "1️⃣  cd $svn_dir"
+echo "2️⃣  svn add hudi-rs-$hudi_version"
+echo "3️⃣  svn commit"