diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9ab411ea6..ab6b508ef 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ LINTTAGS=--build-tags "$(GOTAGS)"
 endif
 LDFLAGS=--ldflags "-s -X github.com/rclone/rclone/fs.Version=$(TAG)"
 
-.PHONY: rclone test_all vars version fetch-gui
+.PHONY: rclone test_all vars version fetch-gui fetch-gui-and-commit
 
 rclone:
 ifeq ($(GO_OS),windows)
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ endif
 fetch-gui:
 	$(SHELL) ./bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh
 
+fetch-gui-and-commit:
+	$(SHELL) ./bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh --commit
+
 test_all:
 	go install $(LDFLAGS) $(BUILDTAGS) $(BUILD_ARGS) github.com/rclone/rclone/fstest/test_all
 
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 8ff7ca50b..8b5fcf914 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ This file describes how to make the various kinds of releases
 
 - git checkout master # see below for stable branch
 - git pull # IMPORTANT
+- make fetch-gui-and-commit # bump the embedded GUI if rclone-web has a newer release
 - git status - make sure everything is checked in
 - Check GitHub actions build for master is Green
 - make test # see integration test server or run locally
diff --git a/bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh b/bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh
index 9346102ba..85e059734 100755
--- a/bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh
+++ b/bin/fetch-gui-dist.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ DEST_DIR="cmd/gui"
 ZIP_FILE="${DEST_DIR}/dist.zip"
 TAG_FILE="${DEST_DIR}/dist.tag"
 
+COMMIT=0
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    case "$arg" in
+        --commit) COMMIT=1 ;;
+        *) echo "Unknown argument: $arg" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+    esac
+done
+
 CURL_OPTS=(-fSs --retry 5 --retry-delay 2 --retry-all-errors)
 
 # Use GITHUB_TOKEN (or GH_TOKEN) if present so that GitHub API calls are
@@ -78,3 +86,12 @@ chmod 644 "${ZIP_FILE}"
 echo -n "${TAG}" > "${TAG_FILE}"
 
 echo "Done. ${ZIP_FILE} updated to ${TAG}"
+
+if [ "${COMMIT}" -eq 1 ]; then
+    git add "${ZIP_FILE}" "${TAG_FILE}"
+    if git diff --cached --quiet -- "${ZIP_FILE}" "${TAG_FILE}"; then
+        echo "No changes to commit (zip and tag are identical to HEAD)"
+    else
+        git commit -m "gui: update embedded release to ${TAG}" -- "${ZIP_FILE}" "${TAG_FILE}"
+    fi
+fi