v0.6.34

[0.6.34] - 2025-10-16

Added

• 📄 MinerU is now supported as a document parser backend, with support for both local and managed API deployments. #18306
• 🔒 JWT token expiration default is now set to 4 weeks instead of never expiring, with security warnings displayed in backend logs and admin UI when set to unlimited. #18261, #18262
• ⚡ Page loading performance is improved by preventing unnecessary API requests when sidebar folders are not expanded. #18179, #17476
• 📁 File hash values are now included in the knowledge endpoint response, enabling efficient file synchronization through hash comparison. #18284, #18283
• 🎨 Chat dialog scrollbar visibility is improved by increasing its width, making it easier to use for navigation. #18369, #11782
• 🔄 Various improvements were implemented across the frontend and backend to enhance performance, stability, and security.
• 🌐 Translations for Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, German, Kabyle, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Thai, and Turkish were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 📚 Focused retrieval mode now works correctly, preventing the system from forcing full context mode and loading all documents in a knowledge base regardless of settings. #18133
• 🔧 Filter inlet functions now correctly execute on tool call continuations, ensuring parameter persistence throughout tool interactions. #18222
• 🛠️ External tool servers now properly support DELETE requests with body data. #18289, #18287
• 🗄️ Oracle23ai vector database client now correctly handles variable initialization, resolving UnboundLocalError when retrieving items from collections. #18356
• 🔧 Model auto-pull functionality now works correctly even when user settings remain unmodified. #18324
• 🎨 Duplicate HTML content in artifacts is now prevented by improving code block detection logic. #18195, #6154
• 💬 Pinned chats now appear in the Reference Chats list and can be referenced in conversations. #18288
• 📝 Misleading knowledge base warning text in documents settings is clarified to correctly instruct users about reindexing vectors. #18263
• 🔔 Toast notifications can now be dismissed even when a modal is open. #18260
• 🔘 The "Chats" button in the sidebar now correctly toggles chat list visibility without navigating away from the current page. #18232
• 🎯 The Integrations menu no longer closes prematurely when clicking outside the Valves modal. #18310
• 🛠️ Tool ID display issues where "undefined" was incorrectly shown in the interface are now resolved. #18178
• 🛠️ Model management issues caused by excessively long model IDs are now prevented through validation that limits model IDs to 256 characters. #18125

v0.6.15

[0.6.15] - 2025-06-16

Added

• 🖼️ Global Image Compression Option: Effortlessly set image compression globally so all image uploads and outputs are optimized, speeding up load times and saving bandwidth—perfect for teams dealing with large files or limited network resources.
• 🎤 Custom Speech-to-Text Content-Type for Transcription: Define custom content types for audio transcription, ensuring compatibility with diverse audio sources and unlocking smoother, more accurate transcriptions in advanced setups.
• 🗂️ LDAP Group Synchronization (Experimental): Automatically sync user groups from your LDAP directory directly into Open WebUI for seamless enterprise access management—simplifies identity integration and governance across your organization.
• 📈 OpenTelemetry Metrics via OTLP Exporter (Experimental): Gain enterprise-grade analytics and monitor your AI usage in real time with experimental OpenTelemetry Metrics support—connect to any OTLP-compatible backend for instant insights into performance, load, and user interactions.
• 🕰️ See User Message Timestamps on Hover (Chat Bubble UI): Effortlessly check when any user message was sent by hovering over it in Chat Bubble mode—no more switching screens or digging through logs for context.
• 🗂️ Leaderboard Sorting Options: Sort the leaderboard directly in the UI for a clearer, more actionable view of top performers, models, or tools—making analysis and recognition quick and easy for teams.
• 🏆 Evaluation Details Modal in Feedbacks and Leaderboard: Dive deeper with new modals that display detailed evaluation information when reviewing feedbacks and leaderboard rankings—accelerates learning, progress tracking, and quality improvement.
• 🔄 Support for Multiple Pages in External Document Loaders: Effortlessly extract and work with content spanning multiple pages in external documents, giving you complete flexibility for in-depth research and document workflows.
• 🌐 New Accessibility Enhancements Across the Interface: Benefit from significant accessibility improvements—tab navigation, ARIA roles/labels, better high-contrast text/modes, accessible modals, and more—making Open WebUI more usable and equitable for everyone, including those using assistive technologies.
• ⚡ Performance & Stability Upgrades Across Frontend and Backend: Enjoy a smoother, more reliable experience with numerous behind-the-scenes optimizations and refactoring on both frontend and backend—resulting in faster load times, fewer errors, and even greater stability throughout your workflows.
• 🌏 Updated and Expanded Localizations: Enjoy improved, up-to-date translations for Finnish, German (now with model pinning features), Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and more—making every interaction smoother, clearer, and more intuitive for international users.

Fixed

• 🦾 Ollama Error Messages More Descriptive: Receive clearer, more actionable error messages when something goes wrong with Ollama models—making troubleshooting and user support faster and more effective.
• 🌐 Bypass Webloader Now Works as Expected: Resolved an issue where the "bypass webloader" feature failed to function correctly, ensuring web search bypasses operate smoothly and reliably for lighter, faster query results.
• 🔍 Prevent Redundant Documents in Citation List: The expanded citation list no longer shows duplicate documents, offering a cleaner, easier-to-digest reference experience when reviewing sources in knowledge and research workflows.
• 🛡️ Trusted Header Email Matching is Now Case-Insensitive: Fixed a critical authentication issue where email case sensitivity could cause secure headers to mismatch, ensuring robust, seamless login and session management in all environments.
• ⚙️ Direct Tool Server Input Accepts Empty Strings: You can now submit direct tool server commands without unexpected errors when passing empty-string values, improving integration and automation efficiency.
• 📄 Citation Page Number for Page 1 is Now Displayed: Corrected an oversight where references for page 1 documents were missing the page number; citations are now always accurate and fully visible.
• 📒 Notes Access Restored: Fixed an issue where some users could not access their notes—everyone can now view and manage their notes reliably, ensuring seamless documentation and workflow continuity.
• 🛑 OAuth Callback Double-Slash Issue Resolved: Fixed rare cases where an extra slash in OAuth callbacks caused failed logins or redirects, making third-party login integrations more reliable.

Changed

• 🔑 Dedicated Permission for System Prompts: System prompt access is now controlled by its own specific permission instead of being grouped with general chat controls, empowering admins with finer-grained management over who can view or modify system prompts for enhanced security and workflow customization.
• 🛠️ YouTube Transcript API and python-pptx Updated: Enjoy better performance, reliability, and broader compatibility thanks to underlying library upgrades—less friction with media-rich and presentation workflows.

Removed

• 🗑️ Console Logging Disabled in Production: All 'console.log' and 'console.debug' statements are now disabled in production, guaranteeing improved security and cleaner browser logs for end users by removing extraneous technical output.

v0.6.10

[0.6.10] - 2025-05-19

Added

• 🧩 Experimental Azure OpenAI Support: Instantly connect to Azure OpenAI endpoints by simply pasting your Azure OpenAI URL into the model connections—bringing flexible, enterprise-grade AI integration directly to your workflow.
• 💧 Watermark AI Responses: Easily add a visible watermark to AI-generated responses for clear content provenance and compliance with EU AI regulations—perfect for regulated environments and transparent communication.
• 🔍 Enhanced Search Experience with Dedicated Modal: Enjoy a modern, powerful search UI in a dedicated modal (open with Ctrl/Cmd + K) accessible from anywhere—quickly find chats, models, or content and boost your productivity.
• 🔲 "Toggle" Filter Type for Chat Input: Add interactive toggle filters (e.g. Web Search, Image, Code Interpreter) right into the chat input—giving you one-click control to activate features and simplifying the chat configuration process.
• 🧰 Granular Model Capabilities Editor: Define detailed capabilities and feature access for each AI model directly from the model editor—enabling tailored behavior, modular control, and a more customized AI environment for every team or use case.
• 🌐 Flexible Local and External Connection Support: Now you can designate any AI connection—whether OpenAI, Ollama, or others—as local or external, enabling seamless setup for on-premise, self-hosted, or cloud configurations and giving you maximum control and flexibility.
• 🗂️ Allowed File Extensions for RAG: Gain full control over your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows by specifying exactly which file extensions are permitted for upload, improving security and relevance of indexed documents.
• 🔊 Enhanced Audio Transcription Logic: Experience smoother, more reliable audio transcription—very long audio files are now automatically split and processed in segments, preventing errors and ensuring even challenging files are transcribed seamlessly, all part of a broader stability upgrade for robust media workflows.
• 🦾 External Document Loader Support: Enhance knowledge base building by integrating documents using external loaders from a wide range of data sources, expanding what your AI can read and process.
• 📝 Preview Button for Code Artifacts: Instantly jump from an HTML code block to its associated artifacts page with the click of a new preview button—speeding up review and streamlining analysis.
• 🦻 Screen Reader Support for Response Messages: All chat responses are now fully compatible with screen readers, making the platform more inclusive and accessible for everyone.
• 🧑‍💼 Customizable Pending User Overlay: You can now tailor the overlay title and content shown to pending users, ensuring onboarding messaging is perfectly aligned with your organization’s tone and requirements.
• 🔐 Option to Disable LDAP Certificate Validation: You can now disable LDAP certificate validation for maximum flexibility in diverse IT environments—making integrations and troubleshooting much easier.
• 🎯 Workspace Search by Username or Email: Easily search across workspace pages using any username or email address, streamlining user and resource management.
• 🎨 High Contrast & Dark Mode Enhancements: Further improved placeholder, input, suggestion, toast, and model selector contrasts—including a dedicated placeholder dark mode—for more comfortable viewing in all lighting conditions.
• 🛡️ Refined Security for Pipelines & Model Uploads: Strengthened safeguards against path traversal vulnerabilities during uploads—ensuring your platform’s document and model management remains secure.
• 🌏 Major Localization Upgrades: Comprehensive translation updates and improvements across Korean, Bulgarian, Catalan, Japanese, Italian, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish—including more accurate AI terminology for clarity; your experience is now more natural, inclusive, and professional everywhere.
• 🦾 General Backend Stability & Security: Multiple backend improvements (including file upload, command navigation, and logging refactorings) deliver increased resilience, better error handling, and a more robust platform for all users.

Fixed

• ✅ Evaluation Feedback Endpoint Reliability: Addressed issues with feedback submission endpoints to ensure seamless user feedback collection on model responses.
• 🫰 Model List State Fixes: Resolved issues where model status toggles in the workspace page might inadvertently switch or confuse state, making the management of active/inactive models more dependable.
• ✍️ Admin Signup Logic: Admin self-signup experience and validation flow is smoother and more robust.
• 🔁 Signout Redirect Flow Improved: Logging out now redirects more reliably, reducing confusion and making session management seamless.

v0.5.4

[0.5.4] - 2024-01-05

Added

• 🔄 Clone Shared Chats: Effortlessly clone shared chats to save time and streamline collaboration, perfect for reusing insightful discussions or custom setups.
• 📣 Native Notifications for Channel Messages: Stay informed with integrated desktop notifications for channel messages, ensuring you never miss important updates while multitasking.
• 🔥 Torch MPS Support: MPS support for Mac users when Open WebUI is installed directly, offering better performance and compatibility for AI workloads.
• 🌍 Enhanced Translations: Small improvements to various translations, ensuring a smoother global user experience.

Fixed

• 🖼️ Image-Only Messages in Channels: You can now send images without accompanying text or content in channels.
• ❌ Proper Exception Handling: Enhanced error feedback by ensuring exceptions are raised clearly, reducing confusion and promoting smoother debugging.
• 🔍 RAG Query Generation Restored: Fixed query generation issues for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, improving retrieval accuracy and ensuring seamless functionality.
• 📩 MOA Response Functionality Fixed: Addressed an error with the MOA response generation feature.
• 💬 Channel Thread Loading with 50+ Messages: Resolved an issue where channel threads stalled when exceeding 50 messages, ensuring smooth navigation in active discussions.
• 🔑 API Endpoint Restrictions Resolution: Fixed a critical bug where the 'API_KEY_ALLOWED_ENDPOINTS' setting was not functioning as intended, ensuring API access is limited to specified endpoints for enhanced security.
• 🛠️ Action Functions Restored: Corrected an issue preventing action functions from working, restoring their utility for customized automations and workflows.
• 📂 Temporary Chat JSON Export Fix: Resolved a bug blocking temporary chats from being exported in JSON format, ensuring seamless data portability.

Changed

• 🎛️ Sidebar UI Tweaks: Chat folders, including pinned folders, now display below the Chats section for better organization; the "New Folder" button has been relocated to the Chats section for a more intuitive workflow.
• 🏗️ Real-Time Save Disabled by Default: The 'ENABLE_REALTIME_CHAT_SAVE' setting is now off by default, boosting response speed for users who prioritize performance in high-paced workflows or less critical scenarios.
• 🎤 Audio Input Echo Cancellation: Audio input now features echo cancellation enabled by default, reducing audio feedback for improved clarity during conversations or voice-based interactions.
• 🔧 General Reliability Improvements: Numerous under-the-hood enhancements have been made to improve platform stability, boost overall performance, and ensure a more seamless, dependable experience across workflows.

v0.3.35

[0.3.35] - 2024-10-26

Added

• 📁 Robust File Handling: Enhanced file input handling for chat. If the content extraction fails or is empty, users will now receive a clear warning, preventing silent failures and ensuring you always know what's happening with your uploads.
• 🌍 New Language Support: Introduced Hungarian translations and updated French translations, expanding the platform's language accessibility for a more global user base.

Fixed

• 📚 Knowledge Base Loading Issue: Resolved a critical bug where the Knowledge Base was not loading, ensuring smooth access to your stored documents and improving information retrieval in RAG-enhanced workflows.
• 🛠️ Tool Parameters Issue: Fixed an error where tools were not functioning correctly when required parameters were missing, ensuring reliable tool performance and more efficient task completions.
• 🔗 Merged Response Loss in Multi-Model Chats: Addressed an issue where responses in multi-model chat workflows were being deleted after follow-up queries, improving consistency and ensuring smoother interactions across models.

v0.3.21

[0.3.21] - 2024-09-08

Added

• 📊 Document Count Display: Now displays the total number of documents directly within the dashboard.
• 🚀 Ollama Embed API Endpoint: Enabled /api/embed endpoint proxy support.

Fixed

• 🐳 Docker Launch Issue: Resolved the problem preventing Open-WebUI from launching correctly when using Docker.

Changed

• 🔍 Enhanced Search Prompts: Improved the search query generation prompts for better accuracy and user interaction, enhancing the overall search experience.

v0.3.8

[0.3.8] - 2024-07-09

Added

• 💬 Chat Controls: Easily adjust parameters for each chat session, offering more precise control over your interactions.
• 📌 Pinned Chats: Support for pinned chats, allowing you to keep important conversations easily accessible.
• 📄 Apache Tika Integration: Added support for using Apache Tika as a document loader, enhancing document processing capabilities.
• 🛠️ Custom Environment for OpenID Claims: Allows setting custom claims for OpenID, providing more flexibility in user authentication.
• 🔧 Enhanced Tools & Functions API: Introduced 'event_emitter' and 'event_call', now you can also add citations for better documentation and tracking. Detailed documentation will be provided on our documentation website.
• ↔️ Sideways Scrolling in Settings: Settings tabs container now supports horizontal scrolling for easier navigation.
• 🌑 Darker OLED Theme: Includes a new, darker OLED theme and improved styling for the light theme, enhancing visual appeal.
• 🌐 Language Updates: Updated translations for Indonesian, German, French, and Catalan languages, expanding accessibility.

Fixed

• ⏰ OpenAI Streaming Timeout: Resolved issues with OpenAI streaming response using the 'AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' setting, ensuring reliable performance.
• 💡 User Valves: Fixed malfunctioning user valves, ensuring proper functionality.
• 🔄 Collapsible Components: Addressed issues with collapsible components not working, restoring expected behavior.

Changed

• 🗃️ Database Backend: Switched from Peewee to SQLAlchemy for improved concurrency support, enhancing database performance.
• 🔤 Primary Font Styling: Updated primary font to Archivo for better visual consistency.
• 🔄 Font Change for Windows: Replaced Arimo with Inter font for Windows users, improving readability.
• 🚀 Lazy Loading: Implemented lazy loading for 'faster_whisper' and 'sentence_transformers' to reduce startup memory usage.
• 📋 Task Generation Payload: Task generations now include only the "task" field in the body instead of "title".

v0.3.2

[0.3.2] - 2024-06-10

Added

• 🔍 Web Search Query Status: The web search query will now persist in the results section to aid in easier debugging and tracking of search queries.
• 🌐 New Web Search Provider: We have added Serply as a new option for web search providers, giving you more choices for your search needs.
• 🌏 Improved Translations: We've enhanced translations for Chinese and Portuguese.

Fixed

• 🎤 Audio File Upload Issue: The bug that prevented audio files from being uploaded in chat input has been fixed, ensuring smooth communication.
• 💬 Message Input Handling: Improved the handling of message inputs by instantly clearing images and text after sending, along with immediate visual indications when a response message is loading, enhancing user feedback.
• ⚙️ Parameter Registration and Validation: Fixed the issue where parameters were not registering in certain cases and addressed the problem where users were unable to save due to invalid input errors.

v0.1.124

[0.1.124] - 2024-05-08

Added

• 🖼️ Improved Chat Sidebar: Now conveniently displays time ranges and organizes chats by today, yesterday, and more.
• 📜 Citations in RAG Feature: Easily track the context fed to the LLM with added citations in the RAG feature.
• 🔒 Auth Disable Option: Introducing the ability to disable authentication. Set 'WEBUI_AUTH' to False to disable authentication. Note: Only applicable for fresh installations without existing users.
• 📹 Enhanced YouTube RAG Pipeline: Now supports non-English videos for an enriched experience.
• 🔊 Specify OpenAI TTS Models: Customize your TTS experience by specifying OpenAI TTS models.
• 🔧 Additional Environment Variables: Discover more environment variables in our comprehensive documentation at Open WebUI Documentation (https://docs.openwebui.com).
• 🌐 Language Support: Arabic, Finnish, and Hindi added; Improved support for German, Vietnamese, and Chinese.

Fixed

• 🛠️ Model Selector Styling: Addressed styling issues for improved user experience.
• ⚠️ Warning Messages: Resolved backend warning messages.

Changed

• 📝 Title Generation: Limited output to 50 tokens.
• 📦 Helm Charts: Removed Helm charts, now available in a separate repository (https://github.com/open-webui/helm-charts).