diff --git a/selfdrive/ui/widgets/offroad_alerts.py b/selfdrive/ui/widgets/offroad_alerts.py
index 8ff8f27bed..47faec2d52 100644
--- a/selfdrive/ui/widgets/offroad_alerts.py
+++ b/selfdrive/ui/widgets/offroad_alerts.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from openpilot.system.ui.lib.scroll_panel import GuiScrollPanel
 from openpilot.system.ui.lib.text_measure import measure_text_cached
 from openpilot.system.ui.lib.wrap_text import wrap_text
 from openpilot.system.ui.widgets import Widget
+from openpilot.system.ui.widgets.html_render import HtmlRenderer
 from openpilot.selfdrive.selfdrived.alertmanager import OFFROAD_ALERTS
 
 
@@ -306,6 +307,7 @@ class UpdateAlert(AbstractAlert):
     self.release_notes = ""
     self._wrapped_release_notes = ""
     self._cached_content_height: float = 0.0
+    self._html_renderer: HtmlRenderer | None = None
 
   def refresh(self) -> bool:
     update_available: bool = self.params.get_bool("UpdateAvailable")
@@ -327,6 +329,14 @@ class UpdateAlert(AbstractAlert):
     return self._cached_content_height
 
   def _render_content(self, content_rect: rl.Rectangle):
+    self.release_notes = "<h1>These are epic release notes</h1>\n\n- Feature 1\n- Feature 2\n- Bug fixes and improvements\n- Make epic"
+
+    html = HtmlRenderer(text=self.release_notes)
+
+    html.render(rl.Rectangle(content_rect.x + 30, content_rect.y + 30, content_rect.width - 60, content_rect.height - 60))
+
+    return
+
     if self.release_notes:
       rl.draw_text_ex(
         gui_app.font(FontWeight.NORMAL),
diff --git a/system/ui/widgets/html_render.py b/system/ui/widgets/html_render.py
index b870227854..c0dae169e8 100644
--- a/system/ui/widgets/html_render.py
+++ b/system/ui/widgets/html_render.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class HtmlElement:
 
 
 class HtmlRenderer(Widget):
-  def __init__(self, file_path: str):
+  def __init__(self, file_path: str | None = None, text: str | None = None):
     super().__init__()
     self.elements: list[HtmlElement] = []
     self._normal_font = gui_app.font(FontWeight.NORMAL)
@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@ class HtmlRenderer(Widget):
       ElementType.BR: {"size": 0, "weight": FontWeight.NORMAL, "color": rl.BLACK, "margin_top": 0, "margin_bottom": 12},
     }
 
-    self.parse_html_file(file_path)
+    if file_path is not None:
+      self.parse_html_file(file_path)
+    elif text is not None:
+      self.parse_html_content(text)
+    else:
+      raise ValueError("Either file_path or text must be provided")
 
   def parse_html_file(self, file_path: str) -> None:
     with open(file_path, encoding='utf-8') as file: