diff --git a/.github/workflows/assess-file-changes.yml b/.github/workflows/assess-file-changes.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf867563
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/assess-file-changes.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+name: Assess file changes
+
+on:
+  workflow_call:
+    # Map the workflow outputs to job outputs
+    outputs:
+      SOURCE_CHANGED:
+        description: "Whether the files under /src/ were changed."
+        value: ${{ jobs.build.outputs.SOURCE_CHANGED }}
+      CHANGELOG_UPDATED:
+        description: "Whether or the CHANGELOG.md file was updated."
+        value: ${{ jobs.build.outputs.CHANGELOG_UPDATED }}
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Map the job outputs to step outputs
+    outputs:
+      SOURCE_CHANGED: ${{ steps.assess-changes.outputs.SOURCE_CHANGED }}
+      CHANGELOG_UPDATED: ${{ steps.assess-changes.outputs.CHANGELOG_UPDATED }}
+
+    name: Test changed-files
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Get changed files
+        id: changed-files
+        uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v29.0.4
+
+      - name: Assess Source Code Changes
+        id: assess-changes
+        run: |
+          echo "SOURCE_CHANGED=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "CHANGELOG_UPDATED=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.all_changed_files }}; do
+            echo $file
+            if [[ $file == "src/"* || $file == "tests/"* || $file == "requirements-minimal.txt" || $file == "requirements-testing.txt" || $file == "setup.py" || $file == ".github/"* ]]
+            then
+              echo "Source changed"
+              echo "SOURCE_CHANGED=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            else
+              echo "Source not changed"
+            fi
+            if [[ $file == "CHANGELOG.md" ]]
+            then
+              echo "Changelog updated"
+              echo "CHANGELOG_UPDATED=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+            else
+              echo "Changelog not updated"
+            fi
+          done
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
index 1723bbd9..f3f2c071 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-tests.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,22 @@ jobs:
       - run: |
           echo 'The triggering workflow failed.'
           0
+  assess-file-changes:
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/assess-file-changes.yml
+
+  detect-changelog-updates:
+    needs: assess-file-changes
+    if: ${{ needs.assess-file-changes.outputs.SOURCE_CHANGED == 'true' }}
+    name: Auto-detecting CHANGELOG.md updates
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - if:  ${{ needs.assess-file-changes.outputs.CHANGELOG_UPDATED == 'true' }}
+        run: echo "CHANGELOG.md has been updated."
+      - if:  ${{ needs.assess-file-changes.outputs.CHANGELOG_UPDATED == 'false' }}
+        run: |
+          echo "CHANGELOG.md has not been updated."
+          0
+
   on-success:
     name: Full tests on ${{ matrix.os }} with Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 25c933bc..2b7bcfea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,15 +1,41 @@
 # Upcoming
 
-### Improvements
-* Improved xml parsing with Bruker [PR #267](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/267)
+### Features
+
+### Fixes
+
+# v0.5.7
 
 ### Features
+
 * Add support to get background components: add `get_background_ids()`, `get_background_image_masks()`, `get_background_pixel_masks()` to `SegmentationExtractor`. [PR #291](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/291)
 
 * Add distinction for raw roi response and denoised roi response in `CaimanSegmentationExtractor`: [PR #291](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/291)
 
 * Bug fix for the `CaimanSegmentationExtractor`: correctly extract temporal and spatial background components [PR #291](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/291)
 
+* Added automatic version update workflow file that will run after publishing a new release to pypi: [PR #290](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/290)
+
+* Added `ScanImageTiffSinglePlaneMultiFileImagingExtractor` and `ScanImageTiffMultiPlaneMultiFileImagingExtractor`: [PR #297](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/297/files)
+
+* Added automatic changelog checking in the test workflow: [PR #302](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/302)
+
+### Fixes
+
+* Improved xml parsing with Bruker [PR #267](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/267)
+
+* Fixed a bug with `ScanImageTiffSinglePlaneImagingExtractor` in which `frames_per_slice` would be set to `_num_frames`: [PR #294](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/294)
+
+# v0.5.6
+
+### Features
+
+* Added support for red channel (anatomical) ROIs from suite2p in Suite2pSegmentationExtractor: [PR #270](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/270)
+
+* Added support for RoiGroup metadata in the `extract_extra_metadata` function for ScanImageTiff files: [PR #272](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/272)
+
+* Updated documentation and Readme PRs: [#283](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/283) [#282](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/282) [#280](https://github.com/catalystneuro/roiextractors/pull/280)
+
 # v0.5.5
 
 ### Features