I have built a great command for working with releases:
gh alias set --shell pending 'git log $(gh release list -L 1 | cut -f 1)..@ --pretty="%an - %s" | sort '
This requires you to have `gh` installed along with git, cut and sort.
If you have a specific branch that is meteged into that used for releases this identifies the people whos commits will form part of the next release!