Create release notes for ReadTheDocs

Author: bvandermoon

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docs/release_notes.md

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+<!--
+ Copyright 2023-2025 Google LLC
+
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+ -->
+
+# MaxText Release Notes
+
+## PyPI Package
+
+MaxText is [available in PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/maxtext/) and can be installed through pip. Please see our [MaxText Installation Guide](https://maxtext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/install_maxtext.html) for setup instructions.
+
+## Releases
+
+### v0.1.0
+
+Our first MaxText PyPI package is here! MaxText is a high performance, highly scalable, open-source LLM library and reference implementation written in pure Python/JAX and targeting Google Cloud TPUs and GPUs for training. We are excited to make it easier than ever to get started.
+
+Users can now install MaxText through pip, both for local development and through stable PyPI builds. Please see our [MaxText Installation Guide](https://maxtext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/install_maxtext.html) for more setup details.
+
+Going forward, this page will document notable changes as we release new versions of MaxText.