v0.11.3

Added

• ♿ Accessibility mode reaches the menus. Accessibility mode now marks the menu entry you are pointing at and the model already chosen with a stronger background, across the dropdown menus, their submenus, and the model picker together with its filter and compare controls, so those cues carry the contrast the accessibility guidelines ask for in both themes. Commit, Commit
• 🔄 General improvements. Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
• 🌐 Translation updates. Translations for Indonesian were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 💥 Chat branches stay connected after reloads. A reply saved under an earlier message now stays listed under that message, so branch arrows, exports, reloads, and later edits keep the whole conversation in view, and chats already saved with that link missing are repaired when opened. #29299
• 🧱 Upgrades fail clearly instead of starting half updated. A failed database upgrade now stops at the migration error that caused it, instead of starting anyway and reporting a missing table or column such as 'chat.timer_at' later, which is the upgrade failure seen after moving from 0.11.0, 0.11.1, or 0.11.2. #29280
• 🔤 Custom interface fonts reach more of the app. The font chosen in interface settings now applies to dropdowns and other interface text that previously fell back to the standard font. Commit
• 🔌 Disconnect OAuth only where there is OAuth. The disconnect control on a tool server reached over MCP now appears only where that server signs in through OAuth and an account is connected, rather than on servers that use no sign-in at all. #29296

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-...

v0.10.1

Fixed

• 🤝 Shared folder read-only chats no longer sign users out. Opening or reading chats from shared folders now keeps the current session active when a resource-level access error is returned, instead of incorrectly showing "Session expired. Please sign in again."

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_...

v0.9.5

Added

• 🛡️ Redirect-based SSRF protection. All outbound HTTP requests now block 3xx redirects by default via a new AIOHTTP_CLIENT_ALLOW_REDIRECTS environment variable, preventing redirect-based SSRF where a public URL silently redirects to internal addresses (RFC 1918, loopback, cloud-metadata endpoints). Affected call sites include web fetch, image loading, OAuth discovery, tool server execution, and code interpreter login. #24491
• 🛡️ Iframe content security policy. Administrators can now configure a Content-Security-Policy for all srcdoc iframes (Artifacts, tool embeds, file previews, citation modals) via the IFRAME_CSP environment variable, restricting what LLM-generated or user-uploaded HTML can load and execute inside previews. Commit
• 🎛️ Granular markdown rendering controls. Users can now independently disable Markdown rendering for user messages and assistant responses from Interface settings, preventing unintended formatting when pasting text that contains Markdown-sensitive characters. Commit
• 🔧 Terminal proxy response headers. Administrators can now inject custom response headers into terminal proxy responses via the TERMINAL_PROXY_HEADERS environment variable (JSON object), enabling deployment-specific security headers like sandbox policies for proxied content. Commit
• 🔌 Channel streaming and tool support. Mentioning a model in a Channel now streams responses in real time and supports the full chat completion pipeline, including native and default function calling, built-in tools (web search, image generation), user tools, MCP tools, filters, and RAG knowledge injection — the same capabilities available in standard chats.

Fixed

• 📝 Notes create and open reliability. Creating new notes and opening existing notes no longer fails with a TypeError caused by is_pinned being passed to the SQLAlchemy model on create, and passed twice to NoteResponse on read. #24484, #24486
• 🔐 Skill public sharing permission enforcement. Creating or updating skills now filters access grants through the sharing.public_skills permission, preventing non-admin users from making skills publicly accessible without the required permission. #24494
• 🔐 Calendar public sharing permission enforcement. Creating or updating calendars now filters access grants through a new sharing.public_calendars permission, preventing users from making calendars publicly readable or writable without explicit admin-granted sharing permission. #24493
• 🔐 Feedback user attribution spoofing. Submitting evaluation feedback can no longer forge the user_id field through mass-assignment, preventing authenticated users from attributing ratings to other users and corrupting Elo leaderboard rankings and admin feedback exports. #24508
• 🛡️ Image URL redirect-based SSRF. Chat messages containing image URLs no longer follow 3xx redirects to internal addresses during base64 conversion, closing the most reachable redirect-based SSRF variant that required no special permissions or feature flags. #24524
• 🛡️ Collection write access on file processing. The process_file and process_files_batch retrieval endpoints now enforce collection write-access checks before embedding content, preventing authenticated users from injecting file content into another user's knowledge-base collection. #24524
• 🔐 Tool source code update authorization. Updating a tool's Python source code now requires workspace.tools or workspace.tools_import permission, preventing users with only a write-access grant from overwriting executable tool code while still allowing metadata edits. #24513
• 🔐 Channel message ownership enforcement. Updating or deleting messages in group and DM channels now requires message ownership, preventing channel members from tampering with or silently removing other members' messages. #24506
• 🔐 Channel pin write permission. Pinning and unpinning messages on standard channels now requires write permission instead of read permission, preventing read-only users from modifying pinned content. #24521
• 🛡️ Image generation URL validation. Generated image URLs are now validated through validate_url() before fetching, aligning the defense-in-depth posture with sibling image-loading paths. #24518
• 🔐 Model params exposure for read-only users. The per-model API endpoint now strips the params dict (including system prompts) from responses to callers without write access, preventing read-only users from viewing admin-curated model configuration. #24525
• 🛡️ URL parser SSRF bypass. URL validation now rejects backslash, tab, CR, and LF characters that cause urllib and requests/aiohttp to disagree on the target host, closing a parser-confusion SSRF bypass. #24534
• 🛡️ Profile image MIME-type allowlist. Serving profile images from data URIs now enforces a strict MIME-type allowlist (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WEBP by default, configurable via PROFILE_IMAGE_ALLOWED_MIME_TYPES) and sets X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff, preventing stored-XSS through SVG or other executable content types. Commit
• 🔐 File ownership in folder and knowledge attachments. Attaching files to folders or knowledge bases now verifies per-file read access, and folder file lists in chat middleware are filtered to entries the caller can read, preventing unauthorized file content from being injected into RAG context. Commit
• 🔐 Shared chat access for owners and admins. Chat owners can now view and clone their own shared chats without requiring an explicit access grant, and administrators can manage shared chat access controls on any chat. Commit, Commit
• 🧵 Legacy chat history self-healing. Loading legacy conversations now automatically detects broken parent-link graphs in migrated message records, merges missing messages from the embedded JSON history, and backfills them to the normalized table so future loads use the fast path without data loss. Commit
• 🎛️ Filter selector reactivity. Model filter checkboxes now derive state reactively from the current filter list and selected IDs instead of capturing a one-time snapshot at mount, so checkboxes update correctly when model contexts or filter configurations change at runtime. Commit
• 🌐 Portuguese (Brazil) translation updates. Translations for newly added UI items were added along with a consistency pass across existing entries. #24503

Changed

• 🧹 Removed unauthenticated retrieval status endpoint. The unauthenticated GET /api/v1/retrieval/ status endpoint has been removed as dead code — retrieval configuration is already available through authenticated admin endpoints. #24497
• 📋 PR template issue requirement. Pull requests now require a linked Issue or Discussion reference, ensuring better traceability for all contributions. PRs without a linked issue or discussion may be closed without review.

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.