What's new panel

A sparkle icon in the dashboard header, next to the notifications bell, opens a short list of recent releases: version, date, and the bullet points from that release.

Where the content comes from

There is exactly one source of truth: the repository's root CHANGELOG.md, maintained automatically by release-please on every release. The control plane parses it once at startup (internal/changelog) and serves the most recent entries from GET /api/v1/changelog. Nothing is hand-curated a second time for this panel.

A control plane running from the official Docker image always has this file available. A bare binary install that hasn't shipped CHANGELOG.md next to the binary yet (see internal/changelog.ReadFile's default, ./CHANGELOG.md, overridable with APP_CHANGELOG_FILE) just shows an empty panel rather than failing.

Unread indicator

The badge counts how many releases are newer than the last one you opened the panel at. That "last seen version" is stored only in your browser (localStorage); opening the panel marks everything as read. It is a per-browser convenience, not account state, so a different browser or a cleared storage shows every entry as unread again.

CLI

levelrail-cli changelog [--limit N] prints the same entries from the terminal, as JSON with --json or human-readable otherwise.