diff --git a/update_reporter.config b/update_reporter.config
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/update_reporter.config
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+APACHE_USER="<your user goes here>"
+APACHE_PASSWORD="<your password goes here>"
diff --git a/update_reporter.sh b/update_reporter.sh
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+++ b/update_reporter.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+function display_usage() {
+    echo "$0 <path_to_file_containing_release_names>"
+}
+
+source update_reporter.config
+if [[ -z "${APACHE_USER}" ]]; then
+    echo "Please set the APACHE_USER variable in the update_reporter.config file."
+    exit 1
+fi
+if [[ -z "${APACHE_PASSWORD}" ]]; then
+    echo "Please set the APACHE_PASSWORD variable in the update_reporter.config file."
+    exit 1
+fi
+if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
+    echo "Please provide a file with the release names, one release name per line."
+    display_usage
+    exit 1
+fi
+BASIC="$(echo -n "$APACHE_USER:$APACHE_PASSWORD" | base64)"
+DATE="`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`"
+EPOCH="`date '+%s'`"
+while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+    release=${line// /+}
+    status=`curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" 'https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.py' \
+            -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
+            -H 'Cache-Control: max-age=0' \
+            -H "Authorization: Basic ${BASIC}" \
+            -H 'Origin: https://reporter.apache.org' \
+            -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \
+            -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
+            -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.20 Safari/537.36' \
+            -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8' \
+            -H 'Referer: https://reporter.apache.org/addrelease.html?sling' \
+            -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' \
+            --data "date=${EPOCH}&committee=sling&version=${release}&xdate=${DATE}" --compressed`
+    if [[ "$status" -ne 200 ]]; then
+        echo "Failed to update ${line}: got status code ${status}"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done < "$1"
+
+
+