diff --git a/.release b/.release
index 005c8ceb3..0a9ebee22 100755
--- a/.release
+++ b/.release
@@ -13,6 +13,61 @@ notice_it() {
     printf '\033[93m%s\033[0m\n' "$*"
 }
 
+# TODO: This function can be deleted once the code to compile the manual is gone
+run_gap() {
+  gap_output=$( \
+    (echo 'OnBreak:=function() Print("FATAL ERROR"); FORCE_QUIT_GAP(1); end;;' ; cat - ; echo ; echo "FORCE_QUIT_GAP(0);") \
+    | $GAP -A -q -b 2>&1 \
+    | tr -d '\r' )
+  mkdir -p "$TMP_DIR"
+  echo "$gap_output" > "$TMP_DIR/gap-error.log"
+  if echo "$gap_output" | grep -q '\(Error\|FATAL ERROR\|Syntax \)' ; then
+    error "there was an error running GAP, see $TMP_DIR/gap-error.log"
+  fi
+}
+
+notice_it "Running Digraphs package .release script"
+
+# Delete unnecessary files
+
 notice_it "Deleting additional unnecessary files"
+
 rm -f  .covignore .gaplint.yml .mailmap Dockerfile
 rm -rf ci etc scripts
+
+# TODO: in the newest commits of ReleaseTools, the manual is now built by the
+# time that this script is called, and soon release-gap-package will also
+# perform the check for non resolved references. Once this is the case, we will
+# be able to get rid of the compilation of the manual in this script.
+notice_it "Building Digraphs package documentation for archives (using makedoc.g)"
+
+run_gap <<GAPInput
+LogTo("makedoc.log");
+if not IsPackageMarkedForLoading("$PKG", "") then
+  SetPackagePath("$PKG", ".");
+fi;
+PushOptions(rec(relativePath:="../../.."));
+Read("makedoc.g");
+GAPInput
+rm -f doc/*.tex
+rm -f doc/*.aux doc/*.bbl doc/*.blg doc/*.brf doc/*.idx doc/*.ilg doc/*.ind doc/*.log doc/*.out doc/*.pnr doc/*.tst
+
+! grep -E "WARNING: non resolved reference" makedoc.log
+rm -f makedoc.log
+
+# Note: Long term, this functionality may become a standard part of ReleaseTools
+notice_it "Fixing the links in the documentation"
+for f in ./*/*.htm* ; do
+  sed 's;href="[^"]*digraphs[^"]*/doc/;href="https://digraphs.github.io/Digraphs/doc/;gi' "$f" > "$f.bak"
+  mv "$f.bak" "$f"
+  sed 's;href="[^"]*io[^"]*/doc/;href="https://gap-packages.github.io/io/doc/;gi' "$f" > "$f.bak"
+  mv "$f.bak" "$f"
+  sed 's;href="[^"]*smallsemi[^"]*/doc/;href="https://gap-packages.github.io/smallsemi/doc/;gi' "$f" > "$f.bak"
+  mv "$f.bak" "$f"
+  sed 's;href="[^"]*images[^"]*/doc/;href="https://gap-packages.github.io/images/doc/;gi' "$f" > "$f.bak"
+  mv "$f.bak" "$f"
+  sed 's;href="[^"]*GAPDoc[^"]*/doc/;href="http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Frank.Luebeck/GAPDoc/doc/;gi' "$f" > "$f.bak"
+  mv "$f.bak" "$f"
+done
+
+notice_it "Finished running Digraphs package .release script!!!"