diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 127c0c5c..35b94746 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ repos:
       - id: check-merge-conflict
       - id: check-yaml
       - id: end-of-file-fixer
+        exclude: ^core/tests/content/boost_release[a-zA-Z_]+.html
       - id: trailing-whitespace
+        exclude: ^core/tests/content/boost_release[a-zA-Z_]+.html
   - repo: https://github.com/ambv/black
     rev: 23.3.0
     hooks:
diff --git a/core/htmlhelper.py b/core/htmlhelper.py
index e01e0565..4c1c3a5d 100644
--- a/core/htmlhelper.py
+++ b/core/htmlhelper.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ REMOVE_TAGS = [
     # very prominent header
     # /docs/libs/1_82_0/libs/locale/doc/html/index.html
     ("div", {"id": "top"}),
+    ("div", {"id": "footer"}),
     # almost every other page has this as a header
     ("table", {"cellpadding": "2", "width": "100%"}),
 ]
diff --git a/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_filtered_output.html b/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_filtered_output.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52d8b4cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_filtered_output.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<h2>Version 1.20.1</h2><p><span class='news-date"'>January 10th, 2001 12:00 GMT</span></p><ul>
+<li>
+<a class="text-sky-600" href="/boost/compressed_pair.hpp">compressed_pair.hpp</a> minor
+                                                    update fixes test failures of other libraries under VC++.
+                                                  
+</li>
+<li>
+<a class="text-sky-600" href="/libs/graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">Graph Library</a>
+                                                    minor
+                                                    updates.
+                                                  
+</li>
+<li>
+<a class="text-sky-600" href="/libs/regex/index.html">Regular Expression Library</a> minor
+                                                    updates.
+                                                  
+</li>
+<li>
+
+                                                    Minor website fixes including missing files in boost_all.zip.
+                                                  
+</li>
+</ul>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_sample.html b/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_sample.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5154a596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_sample.html
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
+<head>
+  <title>Version 1.20.1</title>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+  <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/ico" />
+  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style-v2/section-boost.css" />
+
+    <style type="text/css">
+      /*<![CDATA[*/
+      #content .news-description ul {
+        list-style: none;
+      }
+      #content .news-description ul ul {
+        list-style: circle;
+      }
+      /*]]>*/
+    </style>
+
+    <!--[if IE 7]> <style type="text/css"> body { behavior: url(/style-v2/csshover3.htc); } </style> <![endif]-->
+  <script defer data-domain="original.boost.org" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script></head>
+<!-- Don\'t edit this page! It\'s generated by site-tools/site-tools.py -->
+<body>
+<div id="heading">
+  <!--#include virtual="/common/heading.html" -->  </div>
+
+  <div id="body">
+    <div id="body-inner">
+      <div id="content">
+        <div class="section" id="intro">
+          <div class="section-0">
+            <div class="section-title">
+              <h1>Version 1.20.1</h1>
+            </div>
+
+                        <div class="section-body">
+                          <h2><span class=
+                                      "news-title">Version 1.20.1</span></h2>
+
+                                        <p><span class=news-date">January 10th, 2001 12:00 GMT</span></p>
+
+
+                                        <div class="news-description">
+                                          <div class="description">
+
+
+                                              <ul>
+                                                <li>
+                                                  <div>
+                                                    <a href="/boost/compressed_pair.hpp">compressed_pair.hpp</a> minor
+                                                    update fixes test failures of other libraries under VC++.
+                                                  </div>
+                                                </li>
+                                                <li>
+                                                  <div>
+                                                    <span class="library"><a href="/libs/graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">Graph Library</a></span>
+                                                    minor
+                                                    updates.
+                                                  </div>
+                                                </li>
+                                                <li>
+                                                  <div>
+                                                    <span class="library"><a href="/libs/regex/index.html">Regular Expression Library</a></span> minor
+                                                    updates.
+                                                  </div>
+                                                </li>
+                                                <li>
+                                                  <div>
+                                                    Minor website fixes including missing files in boost_all.zip.
+                                                  </div>
+                                                </li>
+                                              </ul>
+                                          </div>
+                                        </div>
+                        </div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+            <div id="sidebar">
+              <!--#include virtual="/common/sidebar-common.html" --><!--#include virtual="/common/sidebar-boost.html" -->      </div>
+
+            <div class="clear"></div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <div id="footer">
+    <div id="footer-left">
+      <div id="copyright">
+        <p>Copyright Rene Rivera 2006-2007.</p>
+      </div><!--#include virtual="/common/footer-license.html" -->    </div>
+
+        <div id="footer-right">
+          <!--#include virtual="/common/footer-banners.html" -->    </div>
+
+        <div class="clear"></div>
+  </div>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/core/tests/test_htmlhelper.py b/core/tests/test_htmlhelper.py
index e7fe9bd3..2e1e9114 100644
--- a/core/tests/test_htmlhelper.py
+++ b/core/tests/test_htmlhelper.py
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ from core.htmlhelper import (
     remove_tables,
     remove_tags,
     style_links,
+    modernize_release_notes,
 )
 
-
 BASE_HEAD = """
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css" />
     <meta charset="utf-8" />
@@ -764,3 +764,14 @@ def test_style_links_no_links():
     # Assertions
     for a_tag in soup.find_all("a"):
         assert new_class_name in a_tag.get("class", []), "Class not added to link"
+
+
+def test_modernize_release_notes():
+    content = open("core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_sample.html", "rb").read()
+    output = modernize_release_notes(content)
+    expected_output = (
+        open("core/tests/content/boost_release_notes_filtered_output.html")
+        .read()
+        .strip()
+    )
+    assert output == expected_output
