diff --git a/mage_helpers/git.go b/mage_helpers/git.go
index 7a8c27d5e922db10c6c5de7a80835c5a8fb752d9..b32230733393e23c72a06ab9ac1c8beedfd3dfd7 100644
--- a/mage_helpers/git.go
+++ b/mage_helpers/git.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
+	"github.com/Masterminds/semver"
 )
 
 func HasChanges(previousCommit string, folder string) bool {
@@ -43,3 +44,55 @@ func CurrentCommit() string {
 	}
 	return string(output)
 }
+
+func CreateReleaseTag() {
+
+	// Get version and increase version number
+	previousVersion, err := semver.NewVersion(GetLatestGitTag())
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+
+	newVersion := previousVersion.IncMinor()
+
+	// Create git tag
+	newTagName := newVersion.Original()
+	commandArgs := []string{
+		`tag`,
+		newTagName,
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command("git", commandArgs...)
+	_, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+
+	// Push new tag
+	commandArgs = []string{
+		`push`,
+		`origin`,
+		newTagName,
+	}
+	cmd = exec.Command("git", commandArgs...)
+	_, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+	return
+}
+
+func GetLatestGitTag() string {
+	commandArgs := []string{
+		`describe`,
+		`--tags`,
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command("git", commandArgs...)
+	output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+	}
+	tag := string(output)
+	tag = strings.TrimSuffix(tag, "\n")
+
+	return tag
+}