diff --git a/_locales/en/messages.json b/_locales/en/messages.json
index 1d579c36d6..fd2ddd7c9f 100644
--- a/_locales/en/messages.json
+++ b/_locales/en/messages.json
@@ -7249,5 +7249,8 @@
   },
   "icu:WhatsNew__v7.1--0": {
     "messageformat": "This update enables support for all of the new emoji characters in Emoji version 15.1. People keep asking us what our favorite new emoji is, but answering that question is a “lime” we won't cross."
+  },
+  "icu:WhatsNew__v7.2--0": {
+    "messageformat": "Thanks to the performance improvements in this release, opening large group chats is faster than ever. If you're in a group with several hundred people that likes to debate the existence of parallel universes, you now live in a timeline where it takes a lot less time to show the timeline of people talking about timelines."
   }
 }
diff --git a/ts/components/WhatsNewModal.tsx b/ts/components/WhatsNewModal.tsx
index 01b210ef5d..ef4011bef3 100644
--- a/ts/components/WhatsNewModal.tsx
+++ b/ts/components/WhatsNewModal.tsx
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export function WhatsNewModal({
   const releaseNotes: ReleaseNotesType = {
     date: new Date(window.getBuildCreation?.() || Date.now()),
     version: window.getVersion?.(),
-    features: [<Intl i18n={i18n} id="icu:WhatsNew__v7.1--0" />],
+    features: [<Intl i18n={i18n} id="icu:WhatsNew__v7.2--0" />],
   };
 
   if (releaseNotes.features.length === 1 && !releaseNotes.header) {