diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
index 161999a4..8c6eea5a 100644
--- a/makefile
+++ b/makefile
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ doc:
 change: format
 	vim ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h docs/CHANGELOG.md
 
+commit:
+	git commit -am "`sh tools/extract_latest_change.sh`"
+
 .PHONY: test
 .PHONY: build
 .PHONY: ws
diff --git a/tools/extract_latest_change.sh b/tools/extract_latest_change.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d605d9cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/extract_latest_change.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+grep -A 3 '^##' docs/CHANGELOG.md | head -n 3 | tail -n 1