diff --git a/increase_repos_version.sh b/increase_repos_version.sh
--- a/increase_repos_version.sh
+++ b/increase_repos_version.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# command from   git clone kde:jriddell/appstream-metainfo-release-update
+APPSTREAM_UPDATER="/home/jr/src/appstream-metainfo-release-update/appstream-metainfo-release-update/appstream-metainfo-release-update"
+RELEASEDATE="Tuesday, 9 July 2019"
+if [ ! -e $APPSTREAM_UPDATER ]; then
+    echo "$APPSTREAM_UPDATER does not exist, please fix APPSTREAM_UPDATER variable"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "** Have you updated RELEASEDATE? $RELEASEDATE"
+
 cat $here/modules.git | while read repo branch; do
     echo $repo
     . $here/version
@@ -29,6 +38,13 @@
     $cmd perl -pi -e '$_ =~ s/\Q$1/'$version_major'/ if (/^set ?\(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MAJOR "([0-9]*)"/);' CMakeLists.txt
     $cmd perl -pi -e '$_ =~ s/\Q$1/'$version_minor'/ if (/^set ?\(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MINOR "([0-9]*)"/);' CMakeLists.txt
     $cmd perl -pi -e '$_ =~ s/\Q$1/'$version_patch'/ if (/^set ?\(KDE_APPLICATIONS_VERSION_MICRO "([0-9]*)"/);' CMakeLists.txt
+    if [ $version_patch -lt 50 ]; then
+        for metainfofile in `find . -name \*appdata.xml -o -name \*metainfo.xml`; do
+            echo "APPSTREAMING $metainfofile"
+            $cmd ${APPSTREAM_UPDATER} ${metainfofile} --version "${version}" --datestring "${RELEASEDATE}" --releases-to-show 4
+        done
+    fi
+    echo "APPSTREAMING DONE $version_patch"
     $cmd git commit -a -m "GIT_SILENT Upgrade KDE Applications version to $version."
     $cmd git pull --rebase || exit 5
     $cmd git push origin $branch || exit 6