diff --git a/models/migrations/migrations.go b/models/migrations/migrations.go
index 7680e7747..1f5b918de 100644
--- a/models/migrations/migrations.go
+++ b/models/migrations/migrations.go
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ var migrations = []Migration{
 	NewMigration("delete orphaned attachments", deleteOrphanedAttachments),
 	// v97 -> v98
 	NewMigration("add repo_admin_change_team_access to user", addRepoAdminChangeTeamAccessColumnForUser),
+	// v98 -> v99
+	NewMigration("add original author name and id on migrated release", addOriginalAuthorOnMigratedReleases),
 }
 
 // Migrate database to current version
diff --git a/models/migrations/v98.go b/models/migrations/v98.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b9fdbb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/models/migrations/v98.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// Copyright 2019 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package migrations
+
+import "github.com/go-xorm/xorm"
+
+func addOriginalAuthorOnMigratedReleases(x *xorm.Engine) error {
+	type Release struct {
+		ID               int64
+		OriginalAuthor   string
+		OriginalAuthorID int64 `xorm:"index"`
+	}
+
+	return x.Sync2(new(Release))
+}
diff --git a/models/release.go b/models/release.go
index 3729a6f69..243cc2fa3 100644
--- a/models/release.go
+++ b/models/release.go
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ type Release struct {
 	PublisherID      int64       `xorm:"INDEX"`
 	Publisher        *User       `xorm:"-"`
 	TagName          string      `xorm:"INDEX UNIQUE(n)"`
+	OriginalAuthor   string
+	OriginalAuthorID int64 `xorm:"index"`
 	LowerTagName     string
 	Target           string
 	Title            string
diff --git a/modules/migrations/base/release.go b/modules/migrations/base/release.go
index 4ebc37315..b2541f1bf 100644
--- a/modules/migrations/base/release.go
+++ b/modules/migrations/base/release.go
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ type Release struct {
 	Body            string
 	Draft           bool
 	Prerelease      bool
+	PublisherID     int64
+	PublisherName   string
+	PublisherEmail  string
 	Assets          []ReleaseAsset
 	Created         time.Time
 	Published       time.Time
diff --git a/modules/migrations/gitea.go b/modules/migrations/gitea.go
index 271c5616a..1edac47a6 100644
--- a/modules/migrations/gitea.go
+++ b/modules/migrations/gitea.go
@@ -175,18 +175,20 @@ func (g *GiteaLocalUploader) CreateReleases(releases ...*base.Release) error {
 	var rels = make([]*models.Release, 0, len(releases))
 	for _, release := range releases {
 		var rel = models.Release{
-			RepoID:       g.repo.ID,
-			PublisherID:  g.doer.ID,
-			TagName:      release.TagName,
-			LowerTagName: strings.ToLower(release.TagName),
-			Target:       release.TargetCommitish,
-			Title:        release.Name,
-			Sha1:         release.TargetCommitish,
-			Note:         release.Body,
-			IsDraft:      release.Draft,
-			IsPrerelease: release.Prerelease,
-			IsTag:        false,
-			CreatedUnix:  timeutil.TimeStamp(release.Created.Unix()),
+			RepoID:           g.repo.ID,
+			PublisherID:      g.doer.ID,
+			TagName:          release.TagName,
+			LowerTagName:     strings.ToLower(release.TagName),
+			Target:           release.TargetCommitish,
+			Title:            release.Name,
+			Sha1:             release.TargetCommitish,
+			Note:             release.Body,
+			IsDraft:          release.Draft,
+			IsPrerelease:     release.Prerelease,
+			IsTag:            false,
+			CreatedUnix:      timeutil.TimeStamp(release.Created.Unix()),
+			OriginalAuthor:   release.PublisherName,
+			OriginalAuthorID: release.PublisherID,
 		}
 
 		// calc NumCommits
diff --git a/modules/migrations/github.go b/modules/migrations/github.go
index c5f29cabb..754f98941 100644
--- a/modules/migrations/github.go
+++ b/modules/migrations/github.go
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ func (g *GithubDownloaderV3) convertGithubRelease(rel *github.RepositoryRelease)
 		name = *rel.Name
 	}
 
+	var email string
+	if rel.Author.Email != nil {
+		email = *rel.Author.Email
+	}
+
 	r := &base.Release{
 		TagName:         *rel.TagName,
 		TargetCommitish: *rel.TargetCommitish,
@@ -222,6 +227,9 @@ func (g *GithubDownloaderV3) convertGithubRelease(rel *github.RepositoryRelease)
 		Draft:           *rel.Draft,
 		Prerelease:      *rel.Prerelease,
 		Created:         rel.CreatedAt.Time,
+		PublisherID:     *rel.Author.ID,
+		PublisherName:   *rel.Author.Login,
+		PublisherEmail:  email,
 		Published:       rel.PublishedAt.Time,
 	}
 
diff --git a/modules/migrations/github_test.go b/modules/migrations/github_test.go
index 62fce6bbc..2a0a4edf3 100644
--- a/modules/migrations/github_test.go
+++ b/modules/migrations/github_test.go
@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ func TestGitHubDownloadRepo(t *testing.T) {
 			Body:            "Forked source from Gogs into Gitea\n",
 			Created:         time.Date(2016, 10, 17, 02, 17, 59, 0, time.UTC),
 			Published:       time.Date(2016, 11, 17, 15, 37, 0, 0, time.UTC),
+			PublisherID:     4726179,
+			PublisherName:   "bkcsoft",
 		},
 	}, releases[len(releases)-1:])
 
diff --git a/templates/repo/release/list.tmpl b/templates/repo/release/list.tmpl
index c57a18087..777d3a2b0 100644
--- a/templates/repo/release/list.tmpl
+++ b/templates/repo/release/list.tmpl
@@ -54,8 +54,15 @@
 							</h3>
 							<p class="text grey">
 								<span class="author">
+								{{if .OriginalAuthor}}
+									<i class="fa fa-github" aria-hidden="true"></i>
+									{{.OriginalAuthor}}
+								{{else if .Publisher}}
 									<img class="img-10" src="{{.Publisher.RelAvatarLink}}">
 									<a href="{{AppSubUrl}}/{{.Publisher.Name}}">{{.Publisher.Name}}</a>
+								{{else}}
+									Ghost
+								{{end}}
 								</span>
 								{{if .CreatedUnix}}<span class="time">{{TimeSinceUnix .CreatedUnix $.Lang}}</span>{{end}}
 								<span class="ahead">{{$.i18n.Tr "repo.release.ahead" .NumCommitsBehind .Target | Str2html}}</span>