v0.7.2

[0.7.2] - 2026-01-10

Fixed

• ⚡ Users no longer experience database connection timeouts under high concurrency due to connections being held during LLM calls, telemetry collection, and file status streaming. #20545, #20542, #20547
• 📝 Users can now create and save prompts in the workspace prompts editor without encountering errors. Commit
• 🎙️ Users can now use local Whisper for speech-to-text when STT_ENGINE is left empty (the default for local mode). #20534
• 📊 The Evaluations page now loads faster by eliminating duplicate API calls to the leaderboard and feedbacks endpoints. Commit
• 🌐 Fixed missing Settings tab i18n label keys. #20526

v0.6.41

[0.6.41] - 2025-12-02

Added

• 🚦 Sign-in rate limiting was implemented to protect against brute force attacks, limiting login attempts to 15 per 3-minute window per email address using Redis with automatic fallback to in-memory storage when Redis is unavailable. Commit
• 📂 Administrators can now globally disable the folders feature and control user-level folder permissions through the admin panel, enabling minimalist interface configurations for deployments that don't require workspace organization features. #19529, #19210, #18459, #18299
• 👥 Group channels were introduced as a new channel type enabling membership-based collaboration spaces where users explicitly join as members rather than accessing through permissions, with support for public or private visibility, automatic member inclusion from specified user groups, member role tracking with invitation metadata, and post-creation member management allowing channel managers to add or remove members through the channel info modal. Commit, Commit
• 💬 Direct Message channels were introduced with a dedicated channel type selector and multi-user member selection interface, enabling private conversations between specific users without requiring full channel visibility. Commit
• 📨 Direct Message channels now support a complete user-to-user messaging system with member-based access control, automatic deduplication for one-on-one conversations, optional channel naming, and distinct visual presentation using participant avatars instead of channel icons. Commit
• 🙈 Users can now hide Direct Message channels from their sidebar while preserving message history, with automatic reactivation when new messages arrive from other participants, providing a cleaner interface for managing active conversations. Commit
• ☑️ A comprehensive user selection component was added to the channel creation modal, featuring search functionality, sortable user lists, pagination support, and multi-select checkboxes for building Direct Message participant lists. Commit
• 🔴 Channel unread message count tracking was implemented with visual badge indicators in the sidebar, automatically updating counts in real-time and marking messages as read when users view channels, with join/leave functionality to manage membership status. Commit
• 📌 Message pinning functionality was added to channels, allowing users to pin important messages for easy reference with visual highlighting, a dedicated pinned messages modal accessible from the navbar, and complete backend support for tracking pinned status, pin timestamp, and the user who pinned each message. Commit, Commit
• 🟢 Direct Message channels now display an active status indicator for one-on-one conversations, showing a green dot when the other participant is currently online or a gray dot when offline. Commit, Commit
• 🆔 Users can now start Direct Message conversations directly from user profile previews by clicking the "Message" button, enabling quick access to private messaging without navigating away from the current channel. Commit
• ⚡ Channel messages now appear instantly when sent using optimistic UI rendering, displaying with a pending state while the server confirms delivery, providing a more responsive messaging experience. Commit
• 👍 Channel message reactions now display the names of users who reacted when hovering over the emoji, showing up to three names with a count for additional reactors. Commit
• 🛠️ Channel creators can now edit and delete their own group and DM channels without requiring administrator privileges, enabling users to manage the channels they create independently. Commit
• 🔌 A new API endpoint was added to directly get or create a Direct Message channel with a specific user by their ID, streamlining programmatic DM channel creation for integrations and frontend workflows. Commit
• 💭 Users can now set a custom status with an emoji and message that displays in profile previews, the sidebar user menu, and Direct Message channel items in the sidebar, with the ability to clear status at any time, providing visibility into availability or current focus similar to team communication platforms. Commit, Commit
• 📤 A group export API endpoint was added, enabling administrators to export complete group data including member lists for backup and migration purposes. Commit
• 📡 A new API endpoint was added to retrieve all users belonging to a specific group, enabling programmatic access to group membership information for administrative workflows. Commit
• 👁️ The admin user list now displays an active status indicator next to each user, showing a visual green dot for users who have been active within the last three minutes. Commit
• 🔑 The admin user edit modal now displays OAuth identity information with a per-provider breakdown, showing each linked identity provider and its associated subject identifier separately. #19573
• 🧩 OAuth role claim parsing now respects the "OAUTH_ROLES_SEPARATOR" configuration, enabling proper parsing of roles returned as comma-separated strings and providing consistent behavior with group claim handling. #19514
• 🎛️ Channel feature access can now be controlled through both the "USER_PERMISSIONS_FEATURES_CHANNELS" environment variable and group permission toggles in the admin panel, allowing administrators to restrict channel functionality for specific users or groups while defaulting to enabled for all users. Commit
• 🎨 The model editor interface was refined with access control settings moved to a dedicated modal, group member counts now displayed when configuring permissions, reorganized layout with improved visual hierarchy, and redesigned prompt suggestions cards with tooltips for field guidance. Commit, Commit
• 🏗️ Knowledge base file management was rebuilt with a dedicated database table replacing the previous JSON array storage, enabling pagination support for large knowledge bases, significantly faster file listing performance, and more reliable file-knowledge base relationship tracking. Commit
• ☁️ Azure Document Intelligence model selection was added, allowing administrators to specify which model to use for document processing via the "DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_MODEL" environment variable or admin UI setting, with "prebuilt-layout" as the default. #19692, Docs:#872
• 🚀 Milvus multitenancy vector database performance was improved by removing manual flush calls after upsert operations, eliminating rate limit errors and reducing load on etcd and MinIO/S3 storage by allowing Milvus to manage segment persistence automatically via its WAL and auto-flush policies. #19680
• ✨ Various improvements were implemented across the frontend and backend to enhance performance, stability, and security.
• 🌍 Translations for German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Catalan, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 🔄 Tool call response token duplication was fixed by removing redundant message history additions in non-native function calling mode, resolving an issue where tool results were included twice in the context and caus...

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

v0.6.30

[0.6.30] - 2025-09-17

Added

• 🔑 Microsoft Entra ID authentication type support was added for Azure OpenAI connections, enabling enhanced security and streamlined authentication workflows.

Fixed

• ☁️ OneDrive integration was fixed after recent breakage, restoring reliable account connectivity and file access.

v0.6.26

[0.6.26] - 2025-08-28

Added

• 🛂 Granular Chat Interaction Permissions: Added fine-grained permission controls for individual chat actions including "Continue Response", "Regenerate Response", "Rate Response", and "Delete Messages". Administrators can now configure these permissions per user group or set system defaults via environment variables, providing enhanced security and governance by preventing potential system prompt leakage through response continuation and enabling precise control over user interactions with AI responses.
• 🧠 Custom Reasoning Tags Configuration: Added configurable reasoning tag detection for AI model responses, allowing administrators and users to customize how the system identifies and processes reasoning content. Users can now define custom reasoning tag pairs, use default tags like "think" and "reasoning", or disable reasoning detection entirely through the Advanced Parameters interface, providing enhanced control over AI thought process visibility.
• 📱 Pull-to-Refresh SupportA: Added pull-to-refresh functionality allowing user to easily refresh the interface by pulling down on the navbar area. This resolves timeout issues that occurred when temporarily switching away from the app during long AI response generations, eliminating the need to close and relaunch the PWA.
• 📁 Configurable File Upload Processing Mode: Added "process_in_background" query parameter to the file upload API endpoint, allowing clients to choose between asynchronous (default) and synchronous file processing. Setting "process_in_background=false" forces the upload request to wait until extraction and embedding complete, returning immediately usable files and simplifying integration for backend API consumers that prefer blocking calls over polling workflows.
• 🔐 Azure Document Intelligence DefaultAzureCredential Support: Added support for authenticating with Azure Document Intelligence using DefaultAzureCredential in addition to API key authentication, enabling seamless integration with Azure Entra ID and managed identity authentication for enterprise Azure environments.
• 🔐 Authentication Bootstrapping Enhancements: Added "ENABLE_INITIAL_ADMIN_SIGNUP" environment variable and "?form=true" URL parameter to enable initial admin user creation and forced login form display in SSO-only deployments. This resolves bootstrap issues where administrators couldn't create the first user when login forms were disabled, allowing proper initialization of SSO-configured deployments without requiring temporary configuration changes.
• ⚡ Query Generation Caching: Added "ENABLE_QUERIES_CACHE" environment variable to enable request-scoped caching of generated search queries. When both web search and file retrieval are active, queries generated for web search are automatically reused for file retrieval, eliminating duplicate LLM API calls and reducing token usage and costs while maintaining search quality.
• 🔧 Configurable Tool Call Retry Limit: Added "CHAT_RESPONSE_MAX_TOOL_CALL_RETRIES" environment variable to control the maximum number of sequential tool calls allowed before safety stopping a chat session. This replaces the previous hardcoded limit of 10, enabling administrators to configure higher limits for complex workflows requiring extensive tool interactions.
• 📦 Slim Docker Image Variant: Added new slim Docker image option via "USE_SLIM" build argument that excludes embedded AI models and Ollama installation, reducing image size by approximately 1GB. This variant enables faster image pulls and deployments for environments where AI models are managed externally, particularly beneficial for auto-scaling clusters and distributed deployments.
• 🗂️ Shift-to-Delete Functionality for Workspace Prompts: Added keyboard shortcut support for quick prompt deletion on the Workspace Prompts page. Hold Shift and hover over any prompt to reveal a trash icon for instant deletion, bringing consistent interaction patterns across all workspace sections (Models, Tools, Functions, and now Prompts) and streamlining prompt management workflows.
• ♿ Accessibility Enhancements: Enhanced user interface accessibility with improved keyboard navigation, ARIA labels, and screen reader compatibility across key platform components.
• 📄 Optimized PDF Export for Smaller File Size: PDF exports are now significantly optimized, producing much smaller files for faster downloads and easier sharing or archiving of your chats and documents.
• 📦 Slimmed Default Install with Optional Full Dependencies: Installing Open WebUI via pip now defaults to a slimmer package; PostgreSQL support is no longer included by default—simply use 'pip install open-webui[all]' to include all optional dependencies for full feature compatibility.
• 🔄 General Backend Refactoring: Implemented various backend improvements to enhance performance, stability, and security, ensuring a more resilient and reliable platform for all users.
• 🌐 Localization & Internationalization Improvements: Enhanced and expanded translations for Finnish, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), and Chinese, including missing translations and typo corrections, providing a more natural and professional user experience for speakers of these languages across the entire interface.

Fixed

• ⚠️ Chat Error Feedback Restored: Fixed an issue where various backend errors (tool server failures, API connection issues, malformed responses) would cause chats to load indefinitely without providing user feedback. The system now properly displays error messages when failures occur during chat generation, allowing users to understand issues and retry as needed instead of waiting indefinitely.
• 🖼️ Image Generation Steps Setting Visibility Fixed: Fixed a UI issue where the "Set Steps" configuration option was incorrectly displayed for OpenAI and Gemini image generation engines that don't support this parameter. The setting is now only visible for compatible engines like ComfyUI and Automatic1111, eliminating user confusion about non-functional configuration options.
• 📄 Datalab Marker API Document Loader Fixed: Fixed broken Datalab Marker API document loader functionality by correcting URL path handling for both hosted Datalab services and self-hosted Marker servers. Removed hardcoded "/marker" paths from the loader code and restored proper default URL structure, ensuring PDF and document processing works correctly with both deployment types.
• 📋 Citation Error Handling Improved: Fixed an issue where malformed citation or source objects from external tools, pipes, or filters would cause JavaScript errors and make the chat interface completely unresponsive. The system now gracefully handles missing or undefined citation properties, allowing conversations to load properly even when tools generate defective citation events.
• 👥 Group User Add API Endpoint Fixed: Fixed an issue where the "/api/v1/groups/id/{group_id}/users/add" API endpoint would accept requests without errors but fail to actually add users to groups. The system now properly initializes and deduplicates user ID lists, ensuring users are correctly added to and removed from groups via API calls.
• 🛠️ External Tool Server Error Handling Improved: Fixed an issue where unreachable or misconfigured external tool servers would cause JavaScript errors and prevent the interface from loading properly. The system now gracefully handles connection failures, displays appropriate error messages, and filters out inaccessible servers while maintaining full functionality for working connections.
• 📋 Code Block Copy Button Content Fixed: Fixed an issue where the copy button in code blocks would copy the original AI-generated code instead of any user-edited content, ensuring the copy function always captures the currently displayed code as modified by users.
• 📄 PDF Export Content Mismatch Fixed: Resolved an issue where exporting a PDF of one chat while viewing another chat would incorrectly generate the PDF using the currently viewed chat's content instead of the intended chat's content. Additionally optimized the PDF generation algorithm with improved canvas slicing, better memory management, and enhanced image quality, while removing the problematic PDF export option from individual chat menus to prevent further confusion.
• 🖱️ Windows Sidebar Cursor Icon Corrected: Fixed confusing cursor icons on Windows systems where sidebar toggle buttons displayed resize cursors (ew-resize) instead of appropriate pointer cursors. The sidebar buttons now show standard pointer cursors on Windows, eliminating user confusion about whether the buttons expand/collapse the sidebar or resize it.
• 📝 Safari IME Composition Bug Fixed: Resolved an issue where pressing Enter while composing Chinese text using Input Method Editors (IMEs) on Safari would prematurely send messages instead of completing text composition. The system now properly detects composition states and ignores keydown events that occur immediately after composition ends, ensuring smooth multilingual text input across all browsers.
• 🔍 Hybrid Search Parameter Handling Fixed: Fixed an issue where the "hybrid" parameter in collection query requests was not being properly evaluated, causing the system to ignore user-specified hybrid search preferences and only check global configuration. Additionally resolved a division by zero error that occurred in hybrid search when BM25Retriever was called with empty document lists, ensuring robust search functionality across all collection states.
• 💬 RTL Text Orientation in Messages Fixed: Fixed text alignment issues in user messages and AI responses for Right-to-Left languages, ensuring proper text direction based on user language settings. Code blocks now consistently use Left-to-Right orientation regardless of the user's language preference, maintaining code readability ...