v0.11.0

Added

• 🎨 Redesigned interface. Open WebUI has been visually rebuilt from the ground up. All aspects of the User Interface, from the chat view to the admin panel. Now with a narrower conversation column, lighter typography, tidier spacing, consistent menus and dropdowns, clearly outlined text boxes, and settings rearranged. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, #27178, Commit, Commit
• 🤖 Sub-agents. Administrators can now enable sub-agents, which let a model hand parts of a task to background helper agents that run their own tool-driven conversations and report results back into the chat, tuned through new "ENABLE_SUBAGENTS", concurrency, iteration, and system-prompt settings. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 📂 Folder pages. Opening a folder now takes you to its own page, where its chats load a page at a time, can be sorted by title or last updated, and you can start a new chat straight from the folder. Commit
• ⏲️ Chat timers. The assistant can now set a timer that brings a prompt back into the conversation later, after a delay or at a set time, and can drop it automatically if you read the chat or reply before it fires. Commit
• 🔔 Notification targets. Notifications now have their own settings tab where you can send them to several webhook destinations, each picking which events it wants, from chats finishing or failing to channel messages and calendar alerts, with a test button and a choice between always notifying or only when you are away, and any webhook you already had is carried over for you. Commit, Commit, Commit, #24750
• 🗯️ Full replies in channels. A reply from the assistant in a channel is now saved and shown in full, with its reasoning, tool calls and other structured parts, where it previously came through blank. Commit, #26720, #27409, #26707, #26656
• 📣 Notifications from the assistant. The assistant can now send you a notification itself when something is worth your attention, so a long task can reach you after you have moved on to something else. Commit, Commit
• 🌎 Share a chat with anyone holding the link. A shared chat can now be set to Open so it opens without signing in, with visitors no longer bounced to the sign-in page on their way to it, which administrators must first allow through a new "Chats Open Sharing" permission that stays off by default, and such pages ask search engines not to index them. Commit, Commit
• 🔖 Chat variables. A model's system prompt can now declare fields such as text boxes and dropdown lists that you fill in for a conversation, with the values saved alongside the chat and carried over when it is forked or cloned. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, #26915
• 🗄️ LDAP group synchronization. Administrators can now map LDAP groups to Open WebUI groups from the authentication settings, with optional automatic creation of missing groups, so a user's group memberships are kept in step with the directory each time they sign in. #27263, #18015
• 👥 Restrict sharing with groups. Admins can now stop resources from being shared with entire groups through a new "USER_PERMISSIONS_ACCESS_GRANTS_ALLOW_GROUPS" permission, which stays enabled by default so existing group sharing keeps working untouched. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, #27124
• 🤝 Shared folder collaboration. People with access to a shared folder can now use its files and system prompt as knowledge in chat and, with write access, rename and manage the folder, all according to their read or write permission. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-...

v0.10.2

Added

• 💭 Streamed reasoning display. Models that emit thinking or reasoning now show that content as it streams, and it renders correctly in the chat overview and in exported conversations. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🗂️ Folder uploads to knowledge bases. Dragging a folder into a knowledge base, or syncing one, now recreates its subfolder structure instead of flattening everything into loose files. #26130, Commit
• 🧠 Memory system context toggle. Administrators can now keep memory tools available while choosing not to add stored memories to the system context, using the new 'Memory System Context' toggle in admin settings. Commit
• 🧹 Tidier automatic memories. Automatically saved memories now focus on enduring details like preferences and goals and skip one-off things like meals, routine events, or passing mood unless you ask to remember them. Commit
• 🎙️ Speech-to-text request format. OpenAI-compatible speech-to-text can now send audio as either a multipart upload or base64 JSON, selectable in admin audio settings. Commit
• 🧰 API configs via environment. Administrators can now set per-connection Ollama and OpenAI API configurations through the "OLLAMA_API_CONFIGS" and "OPENAI_API_CONFIGS" environment variables. Commit
• 📡 Provider failure events. Failed Ollama and OpenAI-compatible provider requests now emit a structured event describing the error type, provider, and status, giving administrators clearer visibility into upstream failures. Commit
• 🏟️ Arena models via environment. Administrators can now define evaluation arena models through the "EVALUATION_ARENA_MODELS" environment variable. #26174
• ♿ Clearer high-contrast sidebar selection. With high-contrast mode enabled, the currently selected chat in the sidebar now stands out with stronger colors, making it easier to tell which chat is active. #26469, Commit
• 🔄 General improvements. Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
• 🌐 Translation updates. Translations for Thai, Portuguese (Brazil), Catalan, and Spanish were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 🛡️ Security Advisory: This release includes security and access-control fixes. We recommend updating production deployments at your earliest convenience. Not all security fixes in this version may be enumerated in the fixed section — some may be withheld for a short time to give administrators time to upgrade. Advisories
• 🔐 Fewer unexpected logouts. A single request returning an authorization error no longer signs you out while your session is still valid, since the app now confirms the session status before redirecting to login. Commit
• 🔒 Web search domain filtering. Domain allow and block rules for web search results are now matched against the host, closing a gap where some URLs could slip past the filter. Commit
• 🕵️ Image prompt log privacy. Image generation workflows are no longer written to server logs at the default log level, keeping user-authored prompt content out of operator-visible logs. #26400, Commit
• 🗄️ Safer database upgrades. Upgrading an existing SQLite database no longer crashes during the user-table migration or corrupts saved user settings, resolving failures that could block startup or break login after an upgrade. #26403, Commit
• ⚙️ Saving settings as a non-admin. Non-admin users can once again save their interface settings, such as the default model and theme, which previously failed with a server error while the interface incorrectly reported success. #26627, Commit
• 🕒 Sidebar chat timestamps. Chats in the sidebar now show when they were last active instead of when they were created, so the time label matches their position in the list and refreshes after each new message. #26454, #26451
• 🎯 Default model after refresh. Your selected model is no longer cleared when you reload the page, as model selection now waits for the model list to finish loading. Commit
• ⏳ Tool dialogs no longer hang. Dismissing a tool or function input dialog by clicking outside it now cancels the pending request instead of leaving the chat spinning indefinitely. #26417, Commit
• 🐍 Reliable code execution loading. Running Python code in chat now loads its runtime reliably, fixing sandbox startup failures that broke code execution and the Pyodide file viewer in recent releases. #26625, #26390
• 🤖 Models with null capabilities. Chatting with a model whose capabilities are unset no longer fails with an error when the memory feature or automations are involved. #26412, Commit, Commit
• 🔎 Searchable responses. Chat search again finds assistant messages whose text is stored as structured output, which were previously skipped. #26405
• 🔔 Chat notification previews. Background chat completion notifications and toasts now show a clean response preview instead of appearing blank for messages stored as structured output. Commit
• 💾 Banner and config startup. Setting configuration such as "WEBUI_BANNERS" no longer causes a startup failure, since admin configuration values are now stored correctly regardless of their data type. #26431, Commit
• 📑 RAG Template visibility. The RAG Template editor now stays visible in admin document settings even when Bypass Embedding and Retrieval is enabled, since the template still applies to document content in that mode. #26126, Commit
• 🧬 Editing derived models. Editing a workspace model no longer clears its base model, including when that base is a preset or the model itself. Commit, Commit

Changed

• ⚠️ Database Migrations: This release includes database schema changes; we strongly recommend backing up your database and all associated data before upgrading in production environments. If you are running a multi-worker, multi-server, or load-balanced deployment, all instances must be updated simultaneously, rolling updates are not supported and will cause application failures due to schema incompatibility.

v0.9.6

Added

• 📦 Official knowledge base sync tool. A new companion tool from Open WebUI, oikb, keeps a knowledge base in sync with a local directory, GitHub repo, S3 bucket, Confluence space, or any of more than 40 other sources, uploading only new and changed files using the incremental sync support added in this release. oikb
• 📂 Smart directory sync for knowledge bases. Local directories can now be synced into a knowledge base in one action: file checksums are compared against what's already stored, and only added or modified files are uploaded while removed files and orphaned subdirectories are cleaned up, with the directory structure mirrored automatically and per-file progress shown throughout. #19190, #19394, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🗂️ Knowledge base folders. Files inside a knowledge base can now be organized into nested folders, with breadcrumb navigation that makes it much easier to manage and find content in large collections. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🧰 Filesystem tool for knowledge bases. A new built-in tool, enabled via the "ENABLE_KB_EXEC" environment variable, lets AI models browse and search knowledge base contents using familiar filesystem commands such as 'ls', 'cat', 'grep', 'find', 'head', 'tail', and 'sed', including pipes between them. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• ✏️ File renaming in knowledge bases. Files inside a knowledge base can now be renamed directly from the workspace, with the new name reflected wherever the file is referenced. Commit
• 😀 Emoji picker in message input. A new emoji button in the rich text formatting toolbar lets you browse and insert emojis directly into your messages. #24704
• 🪄 Per-chat skills toggle. Skills can now be turned on or off for a conversation directly from the chat Integrations menu, the same way tools and capabilities already work, instead of only through the model preset. #25036, #25037
• 🔎 Access preview for users and groups. Administrators can now preview exactly which models, knowledge bases, and tools a given user or group can access, making it easier to audit and verify permission setups. Commit
• 📄 Configurable knowledge base file page size. Administrators can now request a larger page size when listing a knowledge base's files through the API, reducing the number of requests needed to retrieve large collections instead of paging through fixed increments of 30. #25148, Commit
• 🔃 Persistent processing indicator for knowledge files. Files still being processed in a knowledge base now keep showing a processing indicator across page reloads, so you can tell what's still ingesting after navigating away and back. #25031, Commit
• 📑 MinerU file type configuration. Administrators can now configure which file types are processed by the MinerU document loader, via the new "MINERU_FILE_EXTENSIONS" setting, extending it beyond PDF to formats like DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. Commit
• 📃 Legacy Word document support. Older ".doc" Word files can now have their text extracted by the default document extraction engine, in addition to the modern ".docx" format. Commit
• 📁 Create subfolders from the folder header. Chat folders can now have subfolders created directly from the folder header in the chat view, not just from the sidebar. Commit
• ⚡ Faster initial page loads. The configuration endpoint that loads on every page visit no longer runs an unnecessary user-count query, making the initial application load lighter on the database, especially on instances with many users. Commit
• 🚀 Faster tool-enabled chat completions. Chat completions that use multiple tools now start faster because the tools they reference are fetched from the database in a single batch query instead of one query per tool. #24808, Commit
• 🏎️ More responsive web search under load. Web search through SearXNG, Google PSE, Brave, Serper, and Serpstack now uses non-blocking network calls, so the server stays responsive to other users while a search is in flight, and concurrent multi-query searches complete faster. Commit
• 🐎 Lighter Ollama backend connections. Requests to Ollama backends now reuse a shared connection pool instead of opening a fresh session each time, reducing TCP and TLS handshake overhead for installs that poll Ollama frequently or have multiple backends configured. Commit
• 💽 Fewer redundant model-list writes. On multi-instance deployments backed by Redis, the model list is no longer rewritten when it hasn't changed, cutting a major source of redundant writes. #25469, #25474, Commit
• 📉 Faster websocket disconnect cleanup. Disconnecting from a collaborative session no longer triggers a scan across the entire Redis keyspace, using a per-session index instead, which keeps disconnects cheap on large deployments. #25466, Commit
• 📝 Frontmatter auto-fill for tools, functions, and skills. Opening a tool, function, or skill editor now auto-fills the name, id, and description fields from the file's frontmatter, saving you from re-entering metadata already declared in the source. #24649, Commit
• 🪪 More user placeholders in custom headers. Custom-header templates for direct connections and tool servers now support "{{USER_EMAIL}}" and "{{USER_ROLE}}" alongside the existing user and session placeholders. Commit
• ⏱️ Configurable MCP connection timeout. The timeout for the initial handshake with an MCP tool server is now configurable via the new "MCP_INITIALIZE_TIMEOUT" setting, so servers that are slow to start or expose many tools can finish connecting instead of timing out. #25011, Commit
• 📐 Profile image size limit. Administrators can now cap the size of inline profile images via the new "PROFILE_IMAGE_MAX_DATA_...