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diff --git a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Interface.svelte b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Interface.svelte
index f2dfac5ca..c4c3c0630 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Interface.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Interface.svelte
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <script lang="ts">
 	import { getBackendConfig } from '$lib/apis';
 	import { setDefaultPromptSuggestions } from '$lib/apis/configs';
-	import { config, models, user } from '$lib/stores';
+	import { config, models, user, showWhatsChanged } from '$lib/stores';
 	import { createEventDispatcher, onMount } from 'svelte';
 	import toast from 'svelte-french-toast';
 	const dispatch = createEventDispatcher();
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 	// Interface
 	let promptSuggestions = [];
 	let showUsername = false;
+	let enableWhatsChanged = true;
 
 	const toggleFullScreenMode = async () => {
 		fullScreenMode = !fullScreenMode;
@@ -29,6 +30,11 @@
 		saveSettings({ showUsername: showUsername });
 	};
 
+	const toggleenableWhatsChanged = async () => {
+		enableWhatsChanged = !enableWhatsChanged;
+		saveSettings({ enableWhatsChanged: enableWhatsChanged });
+	};
+
 	const toggleTitleAutoGenerate = async () => {
 		titleAutoGenerate = !titleAutoGenerate;
 		saveSettings({ titleAutoGenerate: titleAutoGenerate });
@@ -77,6 +83,7 @@
 		titleAutoGenerate = settings.titleAutoGenerate ?? true;
 		responseAutoCopy = settings.responseAutoCopy ?? false;
 		showUsername = settings.showUsername ?? false;
+		enableWhatsChanged = settings.enableWhatsChanged ?? true;
 		fullScreenMode = settings.fullScreenMode ?? false;
 		titleAutoGenerateModel = settings.titleAutoGenerateModel ?? '';
 		titleGenerationPrompt =
@@ -179,6 +186,26 @@
 			</div>
 		</div>
 
+		<div>
+			<div class=" py-0.5 flex w-full justify-between">
+				<div class=" self-center text-xs font-medium">Show "WhatsChanged" Modal on Startup</div>
+
+				<button
+					class="p-1 px-3 text-xs flex rounded transition"
+					on:click={() => {
+						toggleenableWhatsChanged();
+					}}
+					type="button"
+				>
+					{#if enableWhatsChanged === true}
+						<span class="ml-2 self-center">On</span>
+					{:else}
+						<span class="ml-2 self-center">Off</span>
+					{/if}
+				</button>
+			</div>
+		</div>
+
 		<hr class=" dark:border-gray-700" />
 
 		<div>
diff --git a/src/lib/components/chat/WhatsChangedModal.svelte b/src/lib/components/chat/WhatsChangedModal.svelte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48ca07b59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/components/chat/WhatsChangedModal.svelte
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+<script lang="ts">
+	import Modal from '../common/Modal.svelte';
+	import { WEBUI_NAME, WEB_UI_VERSION, RELEASE_NOTES } from '$lib/constants';
+	import { config, showWhatsChanged } from '$lib/stores';
+
+	export let show = false;
+
+	function toggleVisibility() {
+		showWhatsChanged.update((value) => !value);
+	}
+</script>
+
+<Modal>
+	<div class="px-5 py-4 dark:text-gray-300">
+		<div class="flex justify-between items-start">
+			<div class="text-xl font-bold">{WEBUI_NAME}</div>
+			<!-- WEBUI_NAME groß und oben -->
+			<button class="self-center" on:click={toggleVisibility}>
+				<!-- SVG-Icon für Schließen-Button -->
+				<svg
+					xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+					viewBox="0 0 20 20"
+					fill="currentColor"
+					class="w-5 h-5"
+				>
+					<path
+						d="M6.28 5.22a.75.75 0 00-1.06 1.06L8.94 10l-3.72 3.72a.75.75 0 101.06 1.06L10 11.06l3.72 3.72a.75.75 0 101.06-1.06L11.06 10l3.72-3.72a.75.75 0 00-1.06-1.06L10 8.94 6.28 5.22z"
+					/>
+				</svg>
+			</button>
+		</div>
+		<div class=" pb-3 flex items-center mt-2">
+			<!-- Container für die Elemente darunter -->
+			<div class="text-sm dark:text-gray-200">Release Notes</div>
+			<div class="flex self-center w-[1px] h-6 mx-2.5 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-700" />
+			<!-- Trennstrich -->
+			<div class="text-sm dark:text-gray-200">
+				{$config && $config.version ? $config.version : WEB_UI_VERSION}
+			</div>
+		</div>
+		<hr class=" dark:border-gray-800" />
+		<div class="p-4 overflow-y-scroll max-h-80">
+			{#if RELEASE_NOTES.length === 0}
+				<div class="pt-10 text-center font-bold">There are no notes given.</div>
+
+				<div class="pb-10 text-center">
+					Check
+					<a class="text-blue-500" href="https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui" target="_blank">
+						Open WebUI on GitHub</a
+					> for more information.
+				</div>
+			{:else}
+				{#each RELEASE_NOTES as { title, description }}
+					<div class="mt-4">
+						<div class="font-bold">{title}</div>
+						<div>{description}</div>
+					</div>
+				{/each}
+			{/if}
+		</div>
+		<div class="m-4 flex justify-end pt-3 text-sm font-medium">
+			<button
+				on:click={toggleVisibility}
+				class=" rounded px-4 py-2 overflow-hidden group bg-green-600 relative hover:bg-gradient-to-r hover:from-green-600 hover:to-green-500 text-white hover:ring-2 hover:ring-offset-2 hover:ring-green-500 transition-all ease-out duration-300"
+			>
+				<span
+					class="absolute right-0 w-8 h-32 -mt-12 transition-all duration-1000 transform translate-x-12 bg-white opacity-10 rotate-12 group-hover:-translate-x-40 ease"
+				/>
+				<span class="relative">Ok, let's go!</span>
+			</button>
+		</div>
+	</div>
+</Modal>
+
+<style>
+</style>
diff --git a/src/lib/components/common/Modal.svelte b/src/lib/components/common/Modal.svelte
index 52c6a6eed..7a4a9478d 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/common/Modal.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/common/Modal.svelte
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <script lang="ts">
 	import { onMount } from 'svelte';
-	import { fade, blur } from 'svelte/transition';
+	import { fade } from 'svelte/transition';
 
 	export let show = true;
 	export let size = 'md';
@@ -35,9 +35,7 @@
 	<!-- svelte-ignore a11y-no-static-element-interactions -->
 	<div
 		class="fixed top-0 right-0 left-0 bottom-0 bg-black/60 w-full min-h-screen h-screen flex justify-center z-50 overflow-hidden overscroll-contain"
-		on:click={() => {
-			show = false;
-		}}
+		transition:fade={{ duration: 200 }}
 	>
 		<div
 			class="m-auto rounded-xl max-w-full {sizeToWidth(
diff --git a/src/lib/components/layout/Sidebar.svelte b/src/lib/components/layout/Sidebar.svelte
index 79bce08e0..d4db32e0a 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/layout/Sidebar.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/layout/Sidebar.svelte
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 		updateChatById
 	} from '$lib/apis/chats';
 	import toast from 'svelte-french-toast';
+	import { slide } from 'svelte/transition';
 
 	let show = false;
 	let navElement;
@@ -562,6 +563,7 @@
 						<div
 							id="dropdownDots"
 							class="absolute z-40 bottom-[70px] 4.5rem rounded-lg shadow w-[240px] bg-gray-900"
+							transition:slide={{ duration: 300 }}
 						>
 							<div class="py-2 w-full">
 								{#if $user.role === 'admin'}
diff --git a/src/lib/constants.ts b/src/lib/constants.ts
index 614fe9592..ac5faed6f 100644
--- a/src/lib/constants.ts
+++ b/src/lib/constants.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,29 @@ export const IMAGES_API_BASE_URL = `${WEBUI_BASE_URL}/images/api/v1`;
 export const RAG_API_BASE_URL = `${WEBUI_BASE_URL}/rag/api/v1`;
 
 export const WEB_UI_VERSION = APP_VERSION;
-
+export const RELEASE_NOTES = [
+	{
+		title: ' 🖼️ Image Generation',
+		description:
+			'Generate Images using the stable-difusion-webui API. You can set this up in settings -> images.'
+	},
+	{
+		title: ' 📝 Change title generation prompt',
+		description:
+			'Change the promt used to generate titles for your chats. You can set this up in the settings -> interface.'
+	},
+	{
+		title: ' 🤖 Change embedding model',
+		description:
+			'Change the embedding model used to generate embeddings for your chats in the Dockerfile. Use any sentence transformer model from huggingface.co.'
+	},
+	{
+		title: ' 📢 This Whats Changed Popup',
+		description:
+			'This popup will show you the latest changes. You can edit it in the constants.ts file.'
+	}
+	//...
+];
 export const REQUIRED_OLLAMA_VERSION = '0.1.16';
 
 export const SUPPORTED_FILE_TYPE = [
diff --git a/src/lib/stores/index.ts b/src/lib/stores/index.ts
index 7880235cf..d9814368d 100644
--- a/src/lib/stores/index.ts
+++ b/src/lib/stores/index.ts
@@ -32,3 +32,16 @@ export const documents = writable([
 
 export const settings = writable({});
 export const showSettings = writable(false);
+function createLocalStorageStore(key, startValue) {
+	const storedValue = localStorage.getItem(key);
+	const initialValue = storedValue ? JSON.parse(storedValue) : startValue;
+
+	const store = writable(initialValue);
+
+	store.subscribe((value) => {
+		localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
+	});
+
+	return store;
+}
+export const showWhatsChanged = createLocalStorageStore('showWhatsChanged', true);
diff --git a/src/routes/(app)/+page.svelte b/src/routes/(app)/+page.svelte
index 9783ef5df..27dc4af1d 100644
--- a/src/routes/(app)/+page.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/(app)/+page.svelte
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 		chats,
 		chatId,
 		config,
+		showWhatsChanged,
 		tags as _tags
 	} from '$lib/stores';
 	import { copyToClipboard, splitStream } from '$lib/utils';
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
 	import Messages from '$lib/components/chat/Messages.svelte';
 	import ModelSelector from '$lib/components/chat/ModelSelector.svelte';
 	import Navbar from '$lib/components/layout/Navbar.svelte';
+	import WhatsChangedModal from '$lib/components/chat//WhatsChangedModal.svelte';
 	import { RAGTemplate } from '$lib/utils/rag';
 
 	let stopResponseFlag = false;
@@ -797,6 +799,9 @@
 </script>
 
 <div class="h-screen max-h-[100dvh] w-full flex flex-col">
+	{#if $showWhatsChanged && !['pending'].includes($user.role) && $settings.enableWhatsChanged}
+		<WhatsChangedModal show={true} />
+	{/if}
 	<Navbar {title} shareEnabled={messages.length > 0} {initNewChat} {tags} {addTag} {deleteTag} />
 	<div class="flex flex-col flex-auto">
 		<div