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.

v0.6.13

[0.6.13] - 2025-05-30

Added

• 🟦 Azure OpenAI Embedding Support: You can now select Azure OpenAI endpoints for text embeddings, unlocking seamless integration with enterprise-scale Azure AI for powerful RAG and knowledge workflows—no more workarounds, connect and scale effortlessly.
• 🧩 Smarter Custom Parameter Handling: Instantly enjoy more flexible model setup—any JSON pasted into custom parameter fields is now parsed automatically, so you can define rich, nested parameters without tedious manual adjustment. This streamlines advanced configuration for all models and accelerates experimentation.
• ⚙️ General Backend Refactoring: Significant backend improvements deliver a cleaner codebase for better maintainability, faster performance, and even greater platform reliability—making all your workflows run more smoothly.
• 🌏 Localization Upgrades: Experience highly improved user interface translations and clarity in Simplified, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Finnish, offering a more natural, accurate, and accessible experience for global users.

Fixed

• 🛡️ Robust Message Handling on Chat Load: Fixed an issue where chat pages could fail to load if a referenced message was missing or undefined; now, chats always load smoothly and missing IDs no longer disrupt your workflow.
• 📝 Correct Prompt Access Control: Ensured that the prompt access controls register properly, restoring reliable permissioning and safeguarding your prompt workflows.
• 🛠 Open WebUI-Specific Params No Longer Sent to Models: Fixed a bug that sent internal WebUI parameters to APIs, ensuring only intended model options are transmitted—restoring predictable, error-free model operation.
• 🧠 Refined Memory Error Handling: Enhanced stability during memory-related operations, so even uncommon memory errors are gracefully managed without disrupting your session—resulting in a more reliable, worry-free experience.

v0.6.5

[0.6.5] - 2025-04-14

Added

• 🛂 Granular Voice Feature Permissions Per User Group: Admins can now separately manage access to Speech-to-Text (record voice), Text-to-Speech (read aloud), and Tool Calls for each user group—giving teams tighter control over voice features and enhanced governance across roles.
• 🗣️ Toggle Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for Whisper STT: New environment variable lets you enable/disable VAD filtering with built-in Whisper speech-to-text, giving you flexibility to optimize for different audio quality and response accuracy levels.
• 📋 Copy Formatted Response Mode: You can now enable “Copy Formatted” in Settings > Interface to copy AI responses exactly as styled (with rich formatting, links, and structure preserved), making it faster and cleaner to paste into documents, emails, or reports.
• ⚙️ Backend Stability and Performance Enhancements: General backend refactoring improves system resilience, consistency, and overall reliability—offering smoother performance across workflows whether chatting, generating media, or using external tools.
• 🌎 Translation Refinements Across Multiple Languages: Updated translations deliver smoother language localization, clearer labels, and improved international usability throughout the UI—ensuring a better experience for non-English speakers.

Fixed

• 🛠️ LDAP Login Reliability Restored: Resolved a critical issue where some LDAP setups failed due to attribute parsing—ensuring consistent, secure, and seamless user authentication across enterprise deployments.
• 🖼️ Image Generation in Temporary Chats Now Works Properly: Fixed a bug where image outputs weren’t generated during temporary chats—visual content can now be used reliably in all chat modes without interruptions.

v0.6.4

[0.6.4] - 2025-04-12

Fixed

• 🛠️ RAG_TEMPLATE Display Issue Resolved: Fixed a formatting problem where the custom RAG_TEMPLATE wasn't correctly rendered in the interface—ensuring that custom retrieval prompts now appear exactly as intended for more reliable prompt engineering.

v0.6.0

[0.6.0] - 2025-03-31

Added

• 🧩 External Tool Server Support via OpenAPI: Connect Open WebUI to any OpenAPI-compatible REST server instantly—offering immediate integration with thousands of developer tools, SDKs, and SaaS systems for powerful extensibility. Learn more: https://github.com/open-webui/openapi-servers
• 🛠️ MCP Server Support via MCPO: You can now convert and expose your internal MCP tools as interoperable OpenAPI HTTP servers within Open WebUI for seamless, plug-n-play AI toolchain creation. Learn more: https://github.com/open-webui/mcpo
• 📨 /messages Chat API Endpoint Support: For power users building external AI systems, new endpoints allow precise control of messages asynchronously—feed long-running external responses into Open WebUI chats without coupling with the frontend.
• 📝 Client-Side PDF Generation: PDF exports are now generated fully client-side for drastically improved output quality—perfect for saving conversations or documents.
• 💼 Enforced Temporary Chats Mode: Admins can now enforce temporary chat sessions by default to align with stringent data retention and compliance requirements.
• 🌍 Public Resource Sharing Permission Controls: Fine-grained user group permissions now allow enabling/disabling public sharing for models, knowledge, prompts, and tools—ideal for privacy, team control, and internal deployments.
• 📦 Custom pip Options for Tools/Functions: You can now specify custom pip installation options with "PIP_OPTIONS", "PIP_PACKAGE_INDEX_OPTIONS" environment variables—improving compatibility, support for private indexes, and better control over Python environments.
• 🔢 Editable Message Counter: You can now double-click the message count number and jump straight to editing the index—quickly navigate complex chats or regenerate specific messages precisely.
• 🧠 Embedding Prefix Support Added: Add custom prefixes to your embeddings for instruct-style tokens, enabling stronger model alignment and more consistent RAG performance.
• 🙈 Ability to Hide Base Models: Optionally hide base models from the UI, helping users streamline model visibility and limit access to only usable endpoints..
• 📚 Docling Content Extraction Support: Open WebUI now supports Docling as a content extraction engine, enabling smarter and more accurate parsing of complex file formats—ideal for advanced document understanding and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows.
• 🗃️ Redis Sentinel Support Added: Enhance deployment redundancy with support for Redis Sentinel for highly available, failover-safe Redis-based caching or pub/sub.
• 📚 JSON Schema Format for Ollama: Added support for defining the format using JSON schema in Ollama-compatible models, improving flexibility and validation of model outputs.
• 🔍 Chat Sidebar Search "Clear” Button: Quickly clear search filters in chat sidebar using the new ✖️ button—streamline your chat navigation with one click.
• 🗂️ Auto-Focus + Enter Submit for Folder Name: When creating a new folder, the system automatically enters rename mode with name preselected—simplifying your org workflow.
• 🧱 Markdown Alerts Rendering: Blockquotes with syntax hinting (e.g. ⚠️, ℹ️, ✅) now render styled Markdown alert banners, making messages and documentation more visually structured.
• 🔁 Hybrid Search Runs in Parallel Now: Hybrid (BM25 + embedding) search components now run in parallel—dramatically reducing response times and speeding up document retrieval.
• 📋 Cleaner UI for Tool Call Display: Optimized the visual layout of called tools inside chat messages for better clarity and reduced visual clutter.
• 🧪 Playwright Timeout Now Configurable: Default timeout for Playwright processes is now shorter and adjustable via environment variables—making web scraping more robust and tunable to environments.
• 📈 OpenTelemetry Support for Observability: Open WebUI now integrates with OpenTelemetry, allowing you to connect with tools like Grafana, Jaeger, or Prometheus for detailed performance insights and real-time visibility—entirely opt-in and fully self-hosted. Even if enabled, no data is ever sent to us, ensuring your privacy and ownership over all telemetry data.
• 🛠 General UI Enhancements & UX Polish: Numerous refinements across sidebar, code blocks, modal interactions, button alignment, scrollbar visibility, and folder behavior improve overall fluidity and usability of the interface.
• 🧱 General Backend Refactoring: Numerous backend components have been refactored to improve stability, maintainability, and performance—ensuring a more consistent and reliable system across all features.
• 🌍 Internationalization Language Support Updates: Added Estonian and Galician languages, improved Spanish (fully revised), Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Catalan, Ukrainian, and German for a more localized and inclusive interface.

Fixed

• 🧑‍💻 Firefox Input Height Bug: Text input in Firefox now maintains proper height, ensuring message boxes look consistent and behave predictably.
• 🧾 Tika Blank Line Bug: PDFs processed with Apache Tika 3.1.0.0 no longer introduce excessive blank lines—improving RAG output quality and visual cleanliness.
• 🧪 CSV Loader Encoding Issues: CSV files with unknown encodings now automatically detect character sets, resolving import errors in non-UTF-8 datasets.
• ✅ LDAP Auth Config Fix: Path to certificate file is now optional for LDAP setups, fixing authentication trouble for users without preconfigured cert paths.
• 📥 File Deletion in Bypass Mode: Resolved issue where files couldn’t be deleted from knowledge when “bypass embedding” mode was enabled.
• 🧩 Hybrid Search Result Sorting & Deduplication Fixed: Fixed citation and sorting issues in RAG hybrid and reranker modes, ensuring retrieved documents are shown in correct order per score.
• 🧷 Model Export/Import Broken for a Single Model: Fixed bug where individual models couldn’t be exported or re-imported, restoring full portability.
• 📫 Auth Redirect Fix: Logged-in users are now routed properly without unnecessary login prompts when already authenticated.

Changed

• 🧠 Prompt Autocompletion Disabled By Default: Autocomplete suggestions while typing are now disabled unless explicitly re-enabled in user preferences—reduces distractions while composing prompts for advanced users.
• 🧾 Normalize Citation Numbering: Source citations now properly begin from "1" instead of "0"—improving consistency and professional presentation in AI outputs.
• 📚 Improved Error Handling from Pipelines: Pipelines now show the actual returned error message from failed tasks rather than generic "Connection closed"—making debugging far more user-friendly.

Removed

• 🧾 ENABLE_AUDIT_LOGS Setting Removed: Deprecated setting “ENABLE_AUDIT_LOGS” has been fully removed—now controlled via “AUDIT_LOG_LEVEL” instead.

v0.5.20

[0.5.20] - 2025-03-05

Added

• ⚡ Toggle Code Execution On/Off: You can now enable or disable code execution, providing more control over security, ensuring a safer and more customizable experience.

Fixed

• 📜 Pinyin Keyboard Enter Key Now Works Properly: Resolved an issue where the Enter key for Pinyin keyboards was not functioning as expected, ensuring seamless input for Chinese users.
• 🖼️ Web Manifest Loading Issue Fixed: Addressed inconsistencies with 'site.webmanifest', guaranteeing proper loading and representation of the app across different browsers and devices.
• 📦 Non-Root Container Issue Resolved: Fixed a critical issue where the UI failed to load correctly in non-root containers, ensuring reliable deployment in various environments.