diff --git a/.github/workflows/scheduled_weekly_build.yml b/.github/workflows/scheduled_weekly_build.yml
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+on:
+
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 0 * * 2'  # Midnight on every Tuesday
+
+name: Scheduled weekly build
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    name: Create Release
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Get current date
+        run: echo "::set-output name=todays_date::$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')"
+      - name: Get latest tag
+        run: |
+          latest_tag_version_value=$(./scripts/find_latest_tag_version.sh)
+          echo "::set-output name=latest_tag_version::${latest_tag_version_value}"
+      - name: Create Release
+        id: create_release
+        uses: actions/create-release@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          tag_name: superset-${{outputs.latest_tag_version.value}}-weekly-build-${{ outputs.todays_date.value }}
+          release_name: superset-${{outputs.latest_tag_version.value}}-weekly-build-${{ outputs.todays_date.value }}
+          draft: false
+          prerelease: false
diff --git a/scripts/find_latest_tag_version.sh b/scripts/find_latest_tag_version.sh
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+#! /bin/bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+
+get_latest_tag_list() {
+ echo git show-ref latest && git show --pretty=tformat:%d -s latest | grep tag: || echo 'not found'
+}
+
+# look up the 'latest' tag on git
+LATEST_TAG_LIST=$(get_latest_tag_list)
+
+## get all tags that use the same sha as the latest tag. split at comma.
+IFS=$','
+LATEST_TAGS=($LATEST_TAG_LIST)
+
+## loop over those tags and only take action on the one that isn't tagged 'latest'
+## that one will have the version number tag
+for (( i=0; i<${#LATEST_TAGS[@]}; i++ ))
+do
+  if [[ ${LATEST_TAGS[$i]} != *"latest"* ]]
+  then
+    ## extract just the version from this tag
+    LATEST_RELEASE_TAG=$(echo "${LATEST_TAGS[$i]}" | sed -E -e 's/tag:|\(|\)|[[:space:]]*//g')
+
+    # check that this only contains a proper semantic version
+    if ! [[ ${LATEST_RELEASE_TAG} =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]
+    then
+      continue
+    fi
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+echo ${LATEST_RELEASE_TAG}