diff --git a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
index c3e45cd..1f779dc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cicd.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 name: CICD
 
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
@@ -11,8 +8,20 @@ jobs:
     name: Run Tests, Pre-Commits, and Build Python package
     uses: ./.github/workflows/ci.yml
 
-  check-version:
+  check-branch:
     needs: build
+    name: Check Branch
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - name: Fail if branch is not main
+      run: |
+        if [[ "${{ github.ref }}" != "refs/heads/main" ]]; then
+          echo "This workflow can only be run on the main branch."
+          exit 1
+        fi
+
+  check-version:
+    needs: check-branch
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: read
@@ -64,6 +73,18 @@ jobs:
         git tag -a v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }} -m "Release v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }}"
         git push origin v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }}
 
+    - name: Set release notes file path
+      id: release-notes
+      run: echo "RELEASE_NOTES_PATH=./docs/release-notes/v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }}.md" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+    - name: Check if release notes file exists
+      id: check-release-notes
+      run: |
+        if [ ! -f "$RELEASE_NOTES_PATH" ]; then
+          echo "Error: Release notes file does not exist at path: $RELEASE_NOTES_PATH"
+          exit 1
+        fi
+
     - name: Create GitHub Release
       uses: actions/create-release@v1
       env:
@@ -71,9 +92,15 @@ jobs:
       with:
         tag_name: v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }}
         release_name: Release v${{ needs.check-version.outputs.version }}
+        body_path: ${{ env.RELEASE_NOTES_PATH }}
         draft: false
         prerelease: false
 
+  create-docs:
+    needs: create-release
+    name: Create and Deploy Documentation
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/docs.yml
+
   publish-to-pypi:
     needs: [build, check-version, create-release]
     name: Publish Python package to PyPI
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
index f848a97..0a7d111 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 name: Docs
 
 on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
   workflow_call:
+  workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
   contents: write
@@ -15,6 +13,13 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
+      - name: Fail if branch is not main
+        run: |
+          if [[ "${{ github.ref }}" != "refs/heads/main" ]]; then
+            echo "This workflow can only be run on the main branch."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 41aaf04..77d26c7 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,170 +1,2 @@
-# Release Notes
-
-## Release v1.4.0
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* Reworked APILLM to allow for calls to any API that follows the OpenAI API format
-* Added graceful failing in optimization runs, allowing to obtain results after an error
-* Reworked configs to ExperimentConfig, allowing to parse any attributes
-
-### Further Changes:
-* Reworked getting started notebook
-* Added tests for the entire package, covering roughly 80% of the codebase
-* Reworked dependency and import structure to allow the usage of a subset of the package
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.2...v1.4.0)
-
-## Release v1.3.2
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* Allow for configuration and evaluation of system prompts in all LLM-Classes
-* CSV Callback is now FileOutputCallback and able to write Parquet files
-* Fixed LLM-Call templates in VLLM
-* refined OPRO-implementation to be closer to the paper
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2)
-
-## Release v1.3.1
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* new features for the VLLM Wrapper (accept seeding to ensure reproducibility)
-* fixes in the "MarkerBasedClassificator"
-* fixes in prompt creation and task description handling
-* generalize the Classificator
-* add verbosity and callback handling in EvoPromptGA
-* add timestamp to the callback
-* removed datasets from repo
-* changed task creation (now by default with a dataset)
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.0...v1.3.1)
-
-## Release v1.3.0
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* new features for the VLLM Wrapper (automatic batch size determination, accepting kwargs)
-* allow callbacks to terminate optimization run
-* add token count functionality
-* renamed "Classificator"-Predictor to "FirstOccurenceClassificator"
-* introduced "MarkerBasedClassifcator"
-* automatic task description creation
-* use task description in prompt creation
-* implement CSV callbacks
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0)
-
-## Release v1.2.0
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* New LLM wrapper: VLLM for local inference with batches
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.1.1...v1.2.0)
-
-## Release v1.1.1
-### What's Changed
-#### Further Changes:
-- deleted poetry.lock
-- updated transformers dependency: bumped from 4.46.3 to 4.48.0
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1)
-
-## Release v1.1.0
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
-* Enable reading tasks from a pandas dataframe
-
-#### Further Changes:
-* deleted experiment files from the repo folders (logs, configs, etc.)
-* improved opros meta-prompt
-* added support for python versions from 3.9 onwards (previously 3.11)
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.0.1...v1.1.0)
-
-## Release v1.0.1
-### What's changed
-#### Added features
--
-
-#### Further Changes:
-* fixed release notes
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1)
-
-## Release v1.0.0
-### What's changed
-#### Added Features:
-* exemplar selection module, classes for exemplar selection (Random and RandomSearch)
-* helper functions: run_experiment, run_optimization and run_evaluation
-
-#### Further Changes:
-* removed deepinfra helper functions as langchain-community libary is now working as intended
-* added license
-* added release notes :)
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0.2.0...v1.0.0)
-
-## Release v0.2.0
-
-### What's Changed
-#### Added Features: 
-* Prompt creation utility function
-* Prompt variation utility function
-* New optimizer: OPro (see [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409))
-
-#### Further Changes:
-* Workflows for automated build, deployment & release
-* New documentation page appearance
-* Additional Docstrings & Formatting
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0.1.1...v0.2.0)
-
-## Release v0.1.1 (2)
-
-### What's Changed
-
-#### Added features:
-\-
-
-#### Further changes:
-* Added workflows for automated build, deployment, release and doc creation
-* Updated pre-commits
-* Added docstrings and formatting
-* Updated readme
-* Updated docs
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/0.1.1...v0.1.1)
-
-## Release v0.1.1
-
-### What's Changed
-
-#### Features added:
-\-
-
-#### Further changes:
-* Loosen restrictive python version requirements (^3.11 instead of ~3.11)
-* Add documentation pages
-* Update README
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/0.1.0...0.1.1)
-
-## Release v0.1.0
-
-*First release*
-
-### What's Changed
-
-#### Added Features:
-* Base classes for tasks, LLMs, predictors, and optimizers
-* Classification task
-* API LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepInfra
-* Local LLM
-* optimizer EvoPrompt GA and EvoPrompt DE (see [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08532))
-
-#### Further changes:
-* Added example classification datasets used in the [EvoPrompt paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08532)
-* Added dummy classes for testing
-* Added example scripts and configs for experiments
-* Added experiment results and evaluation notebooks
-
-**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/commits/0.1.0)
+Welcome to the release notes of Promptolution! Please find the release notes for the corresponding versions of the library in the menu to your left.
 
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v0.1.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eca666a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+## Release v0.1.0
+
+*First release*
+
+### What's Changed
+
+#### Added Features:
+* Base classes for tasks, LLMs, predictors, and optimizers
+* Classification task
+* API LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepInfra
+* Local LLM
+* optimizer EvoPrompt GA and EvoPrompt DE (see [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08532))
+
+#### Further changes:
+* Added example classification datasets used in the [EvoPrompt paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08532)
+* Added dummy classes for testing
+* Added example scripts and configs for experiments
+* Added experiment results and evaluation notebooks
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/commits/0.1.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1.md b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ac4903
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+## Release v0.1.1
+
+### What's Changed
+
+#### Features added:
+\-
+
+#### Further changes:
+* Loosen restrictive python version requirements (^3.11 instead of ~3.11)
+* Add documentation pages
+* Update README
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/0.1.0...0.1.1)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1b.md b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1b.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e9de2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v0.1.1b.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+## Release v0.1.1 (2)
+
+### What's Changed
+
+#### Added features:
+\-
+
+#### Further changes:
+* Added workflows for automated build, deployment, release and doc creation
+* Updated pre-commits
+* Added docstrings and formatting
+* Updated readme
+* Updated docs
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/0.1.1...v0.1.1)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v0.2.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v0.2.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..effd671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v0.2.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## Release v0.2.0
+
+### What's Changed
+#### Added Features: 
+* Prompt creation utility function
+* Prompt variation utility function
+* New optimizer: OPro (see [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03409))
+
+#### Further Changes:
+* Workflows for automated build, deployment & release
+* New documentation page appearance
+* Additional Docstrings & Formatting
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0.1.1...v0.2.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..498415e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.0.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## Release v1.0.0
+### What's changed
+#### Added Features:
+* exemplar selection module, classes for exemplar selection (Random and RandomSearch)
+* helper functions: run_experiment, run_optimization and run_evaluation
+
+#### Further Changes:
+* removed deepinfra helper functions as langchain-community libary is now working as intended
+* added license
+* added release notes :)
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v0.2.0...v1.0.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.0.1.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.0.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..859a2cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.0.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+## Release v1.0.1
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+-
+
+#### Further Changes:
+* fixed release notes
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.0.0...v1.0.1)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.1.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.1.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae95c6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.1.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+## Release v1.1.0
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* Enable reading tasks from a pandas dataframe
+
+#### Further Changes:
+* deleted experiment files from the repo folders (logs, configs, etc.)
+* improved opros meta-prompt
+* added support for python versions from 3.9 onwards (previously 3.11)
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.0.1...v1.1.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.1.1.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.1.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c7e707
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.1.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+## Release v1.1.1
+### What's Changed
+#### Further Changes:
+- deleted poetry.lock
+- updated transformers dependency: bumped from 4.46.3 to 4.48.0
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1)
+
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8c47c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.2.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## Release v1.2.0
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* New LLM wrapper: VLLM for local inference with batches
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.1.1...v1.2.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.3.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea6c6ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+## Release v1.3.0
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* new features for the VLLM Wrapper (automatic batch size determination, accepting kwargs)
+* allow callbacks to terminate optimization run
+* add token count functionality
+* renamed "Classificator"-Predictor to "FirstOccurenceClassificator"
+* introduced "MarkerBasedClassificator"
+* automatic task description creation
+* use task description in prompt creation
+* implement CSV callbacks
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.3.1.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.1.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b711161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+## Release v1.3.1
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* new features for the VLLM Wrapper (accept seeding to ensure reproducibility)
+* fixes in the "MarkerBasedClassificator"
+* fixes in prompt creation and task description handling
+* generalize the Classificator
+* add verbosity and callback handling in EvoPromptGA
+* add timestamp to the callback
+* removed datasets from repo
+* changed task creation (now by default with a dataset)
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.0...v1.3.1)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.3.2.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.2.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1ab0ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.3.2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+## Release v1.3.2
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* Allow for configuration and evaluation of system prompts in all LLM-Classes
+* CSV Callback is now FileOutputCallback and able to write Parquet files
+* Fixed LLM-Call templates in VLLM
+* refined OPRO-implementation to be closer to the paper
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/v1.4.0.md b/docs/release-notes/v1.4.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e439ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/v1.4.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+## Release v1.4.0
+### What's changed
+#### Added features
+* Reworked APILLM to allow for calls to any API that follows the OpenAI API format
+* Added graceful failing in optimization runs, allowing to obtain results after an error
+* Reworked configs to ExperimentConfig, allowing to parse any attributes
+
+### Further Changes:
+* Reworked getting started notebook
+* Added tests for the entire package, covering roughly 80% of the codebase
+* Reworked dependency and import structure to allow the usage of a subset of the package
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/v1.3.2...v1.4.0)
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/vX.X.X.md b/docs/release-notes/vX.X.X.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..526829d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/release-notes/vX.X.X.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+## Release vX.X.X
+### What's changed
+
+#### Added features:
+*
+
+#### Further changes:
+* 
+
+**Full Changelog**: [here](https://github.com/finitearth/promptolution/compare/W.W.W...vX.X.X)
+
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index d9e7ee3..a26607d 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -45,7 +45,21 @@ plugins:
 
 nav:
   - Home: index.md
-  - Release Notes: release-notes.md
+  - Release Notes: 
+    - Overview: release-notes.md
+    - v1.4.0: release-notes/v1.4.0.md
+    - v1.3.2: release-notes/v1.3.2.md
+    - v1.3.1: release-notes/v1.3.1.md
+    - v1.3.0: release-notes/v1.3.0.md
+    - v1.2.0: release-notes/v1.2.0.md
+    - v1.1.1: release-notes/v1.1.1.md
+    - v1.1.0: release-notes/v1.1.0.md
+    - v1.0.1: release-notes/v1.0.1.md
+    - v1.0.0: release-notes/v1.0.0.md
+    - v0.2.0: release-notes/v0.2.0.md
+    - v0.1.1b: release-notes/v0.1.1b.md
+    - v0.1.1: release-notes/v0.1.1.md
+    - v0.1.0: release-notes/v0.1.0.md
   - API Reference:
     - LLMs: api/llms.md
     - Optimizers: api/optimizers.md