Touching release notes should only be for the current version.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- dropped unrelevant change,
- simplified VERSION extract and updated variable names,

---
 devtools/checkpatches.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index db4c7d8301..aff7d2a161 100755
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -198,6 +198,15 @@ check_internal_tags() { # <patch>
        return $res
 }
 
+check_release_notes() { # <patch>
+       rel_notes_prefix=doc/guides/rel_notes/release_
+       IFS=. read year month release < VERSION
+       current_rel_notes=${rel_notes_prefix}${year}_${month}.rst
+
+       ! grep -e '^--- a/'$rel_notes_prefix -e '^+++ b/'$rel_notes_prefix $1 |
+               grep -v $current_rel_notes
+}
+
 number=0
 range='origin/main..'
 quiet=false
@@ -289,6 +298,14 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title>
                ret=1
        fi
 
+       ! $verbose || printf '\nChecking release notes updates:\n'
+       report=$(check_release_notes "$tmpinput")
+       if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+               $headline_printed || print_headline "$3"
+               printf '%s\n' "$report"
+               ret=1
+       fi
+
        if [ "$tmpinput" != "$1" ]; then
                rm -f "$tmpinput"
                trap - INT
-- 
2.23.0

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