v0.5.18

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[0.5.18] - 2025-02-27

Fixed

• 🌐 Open WebUI Now Works Over LAN in Insecure Context: Resolved an issue preventing Open WebUI from functioning when accessed over a local network in an insecure context, ensuring seamless connectivity.
• 🔄 UI Now Reflects Deleted Connections Instantly: Fixed an issue where deleting a connection did not update the UI in real time, ensuring accurate system state visibility.
• 🛠️ Models Now Display Correctly with ENABLE_FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADERS: Addressed a bug where models were not visible when ENABLE_FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADERS was set, restoring proper model listing.

v0.5.18

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Fixed

• 🌐 Open WebUI Now Works Over LAN in Insecure Context: Resolved an issue preventing Open WebUI from functioning when accessed over a local network in an insecure context, ensuring seamless connectivity.
• 🔄 UI Now Reflects Deleted Connections Instantly: Fixed an issue where deleting a connection did not update the UI in real time, ensuring accurate system state visibility.
• 🛠️ Models Now Display Correctly with ENABLE_FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADERS: Addressed a bug where models were not visible when ENABLE_FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADERS was set, restoring proper model listing.

v0.5.17

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[0.5.17] - 2025-02-27

Added

• 🚀 Instant Document Upload with Bypass Embedding & Retrieval: Admins can now enable "Bypass Embedding & Retrieval" in Admin Settings > Documents, significantly speeding up document uploads and ensuring full document context is retained without chunking.
• 🔎 "Stream" Hook for Real-Time Filtering: The new "stream" hook allows dynamic real-time message filtering. Learn more in our documentation (https://docs.openwebui.com/features/plugin/functions/filter).
• ☁️ OneDrive Integration: Early support for OneDrive storage integration has been introduced, expanding file import options.
• 📈 Enhanced Logging with Loguru: Backend logging has been improved with Loguru, making debugging and issue tracking far more efficient.
• ⚙️ General Stability Enhancements: Backend and frontend refactoring improves performance, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.
• 🌍 Updated Translations: Refined multilingual support for better localization and accuracy across various languages.

Fixed

• 🔄 Reliable Model Imports from the Community Platform: Resolved import failures, allowing seamless integration of community-shared models without errors.
• 📊 OpenAI Usage Statistics Restored: Fixed an issue where OpenAI usage metrics were not displaying correctly, ensuring accurate tracking of usage data.
• 🗂️ Deduplication for Retrieved Documents: Documents retrieved during searches are now intelligently deduplicated, meaning no more redundant results—helping to keep information concise and relevant.

Changed

• 📝 "Full Context Mode" Renamed for Clarity: The "Full Context Mode" toggle in Web Search settings is now labeled "Bypass Embedding & Retrieval" for consistency across the UI.

v0.5.17

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Added

• 🚀 Instant Document Upload with Bypass Embedding & Retrieval: Admins can now enable "Bypass Embedding & Retrieval" in Admin Settings > Documents, significantly speeding up document uploads and ensuring full document context is retained without chunking.
• 🔎 "Stream" Hook for Real-Time Filtering: The new "stream" hook allows dynamic real-time message filtering. Learn more in our documentation (https://docs.openwebui.com/features/plugin/functions/filter).
• ☁️ OneDrive Integration: Early support for OneDrive storage integration has been introduced, expanding file import options.
• 📈 Enhanced Logging with Loguru: Backend logging has been improved with Loguru, making debugging and issue tracking far more efficient.
• ⚙️ General Stability Enhancements: Backend and frontend refactoring improves performance, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.
• 🌍 Updated Translations: Refined multilingual support for better localization and accuracy across various languages.

Fixed

• 🔄 Reliable Model Imports from the Community Platform: Resolved import failures, allowing seamless integration of community-shared models without errors.
• 📊 OpenAI Usage Statistics Restored: Fixed an issue where OpenAI usage metrics were not displaying correctly, ensuring accurate tracking of usage data.
• 🗂️ Deduplication for Retrieved Documents: Documents retrieved during searches are now intelligently deduplicated, meaning no more redundant results—helping to keep information concise and relevant.

Changed

• 📝 "Full Context Mode" Renamed for Clarity: The "Full Context Mode" toggle in Web Search settings is now labeled "Bypass Embedding & Retrieval" for consistency across the UI.

v0.5.16

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Fixed

• 🔍 Web Search Retrieval Restored: Resolved a critical issue that broke web search retrieval by reverting deduplication changes, ensuring complete and accurate search results once again.

v0.5.16

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[0.5.16] - 2025-02-20

Fixed

• 🔍 Web Search Retrieval Restored: Resolved a critical issue that broke web search retrieval by reverting deduplication changes, ensuring complete and accurate search results once again.

v0.5.15

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[0.5.15] - 2025-02-20

Added

• 📄 Full Context Mode for Local Document Search (RAG): Toggle full context mode from Admin Settings > Documents to inject entire document content into context, improving accuracy for models with large context windows—ideal for deep context understanding.
• 🌍 Smarter Web Search with Agentic Workflows: Web searches now intelligently gather and refine multiple relevant terms, similar to RAG handling, delivering significantly better search results for more accurate information retrieval.
• 🔎 Experimental Playwright Support for Web Loader: Web content retrieval is taken to the next level with Playwright-powered scraping for enhanced accuracy in extracted web data.
• ☁️ Experimental Azure Storage Provider: Early-stage support for Azure Storage allows more cloud storage flexibility directly within Open WebUI.
• 📊 Improved Jupyter Code Execution with Plots: Interactive coding now properly displays inline plots, making data visualization more seamless inside chat interactions.
• ⏳ Adjustable Execution Timeout for Jupyter Interpreter: Customize execution timeout (default: 60s) for Jupyter-based code execution, allowing longer or more constrained execution based on your needs.
• ▶️ "Running..." Indicator for Jupyter Code Execution: A visual indicator now appears while code execution is in progress, providing real-time status updates on ongoing computations.
• ⚙️ General Backend & Frontend Stability Enhancements: Extensive refactoring improves reliability, performance, and overall user experience for a more seamless Open WebUI.
• 🌍 Translation Updates: Various international translation refinements ensure better localization and a more natural user interface experience.

Fixed

• 📱 Mobile Hover Issue Resolved: Users can now edit responses smoothly on mobile without interference, fixing a longstanding hover issue.
• 🔄 Temporary Chat Message Duplication Fixed: Eliminated buggy behavior where messages were being unnecessarily repeated in temporary chat mode, ensuring a smooth and consistent conversation flow.

v0.5.15

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Added

• 📄 Full Context Mode for Local Document Search (RAG): Toggle full context mode from Admin Settings > Documents to inject entire document content into context, improving accuracy for models with large context windows—ideal for deep context understanding.
• 🌍 Smarter Web Search with Agentic Workflows: Web searches now intelligently gather and refine multiple relevant terms, similar to RAG handling, delivering significantly better search results for more accurate information retrieval.
• 🔎 Experimental Playwright Support for Web Loader: Web content retrieval is taken to the next level with Playwright-powered scraping for enhanced accuracy in extracted web data.
• ☁️ Experimental Azure Storage Provider: Early-stage support for Azure Storage allows more cloud storage flexibility directly within Open WebUI.
• 📊 Improved Jupyter Code Execution with Plots: Interactive coding now properly displays inline plots, making data visualization more seamless inside chat interactions.
• ⏳ Adjustable Execution Timeout for Jupyter Interpreter: Customize execution timeout (default: 60s) for Jupyter-based code execution, allowing longer or more constrained execution based on your needs.
• ▶️ "Running..." Indicator for Jupyter Code Execution: A visual indicator now appears while code execution is in progress, providing real-time status updates on ongoing computations.
• ⚙️ General Backend & Frontend Stability Enhancements: Extensive refactoring improves reliability, performance, and overall user experience for a more seamless Open WebUI.
• 🌍 Translation Updates: Various international translation refinements ensure better localization and a more natural user interface experience.

Fixed

• 📱 Mobile Hover Issue Resolved: Users can now edit responses smoothly on mobile without interference, fixing a longstanding hover issue.
• 🔄 Temporary Chat Message Duplication Fixed: Eliminated buggy behavior where messages were being unnecessarily repeated in temporary chat mode, ensuring a smooth and consistent conversation flow.

v0.5.14

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[0.5.14] - 2025-02-17

Fixed

• 🔧 Critical Import Error Resolved: Fixed a circular import issue preventing 'override_static' from being correctly imported in 'open_webui.config', ensuring smooth system initialization and stability.

v0.5.14

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Fixed

• 🔧 Critical Import Error Resolved: Fixed a circular import issue preventing 'override_static' from being correctly imported in 'open_webui.config', ensuring smooth system initialization and stability.

v0.5.13

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Added

• 🌐 Full Context Mode for Web Search: Enable highly accurate web searches by utilizing full context mode—ideal for models with large context windows, ensuring more precise and insightful results.
• ⚡ Optimized Asynchronous Web Search: Web searches now load significantly faster with optimized async support, providing users with quicker, more efficient information retrieval.
• 🔄 Auto Text Direction for RTL Languages: Automatic text alignment based on language input, ensuring seamless conversation flow for Arabic, Hebrew, and other right-to-left scripts.
• 🚀 Jupyter Notebook Support for Code Execution: The "Run" button in code blocks can now use Jupyter for execution, offering a powerful, dynamic coding experience directly in the chat.
• 🗑️ Message Delete Confirmation Dialog: Prevent accidental deletions with a new confirmation prompt before removing messages, adding an additional layer of security to your chat history.
• 📥 Download Button for SVG Diagrams: SVG diagrams generated within chat can now be downloaded instantly, making it easier to save and share complex visual data.
• ✨ General UI/UX Improvements and Backend Stability: A refined interface with smoother interactions, improved layouts, and backend stability enhancements for a more reliable, polished experience.

Fixed

• 🛠️ Temporary Chat Message Continue Button Fixed: The "Continue Response" button for temporary chats now works as expected, ensuring an uninterrupted conversation flow.

Changed

• 📝 Prompt Variable Update: Deprecated square bracket '[]' indicators for prompt variables; now requires double curly brackets '{{}}' for consistency and clarity.
• 🔧 Stability Enhancements: Error handling improved in chat history, ensuring smoother operations when reviewing previous messages.

v0.5.13

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[0.5.13] - 2025-02-17

Added

• 🌐 Full Context Mode for Web Search: Enable highly accurate web searches by utilizing full context mode—ideal for models with large context windows, ensuring more precise and insightful results.
• ⚡ Optimized Asynchronous Web Search: Web searches now load significantly faster with optimized async support, providing users with quicker, more efficient information retrieval.
• 🔄 Auto Text Direction for RTL Languages: Automatic text alignment based on language input, ensuring seamless conversation flow for Arabic, Hebrew, and other right-to-left scripts.
• 🚀 Jupyter Notebook Support for Code Execution: The "Run" button in code blocks can now use Jupyter for execution, offering a powerful, dynamic coding experience directly in the chat.
• 🗑️ Message Delete Confirmation Dialog: Prevent accidental deletions with a new confirmation prompt before removing messages, adding an additional layer of security to your chat history.
• 📥 Download Button for SVG Diagrams: SVG diagrams generated within chat can now be downloaded instantly, making it easier to save and share complex visual data.
• ✨ General UI/UX Improvements and Backend Stability: A refined interface with smoother interactions, improved layouts, and backend stability enhancements for a more reliable, polished experience.

Fixed

• 🛠️ Temporary Chat Message Continue Button Fixed: The "Continue Response" button for temporary chats now works as expected, ensuring an uninterrupted conversation flow.

Changed

• 📝 Prompt Variable Update: Deprecated square bracket '[]' indicators for prompt variables; now requires double curly brackets '{{}}' for consistency and clarity.
• 🔧 Stability Enhancements: Error handling improved in chat history, ensuring smoother operations when reviewing previous messages.

v0.5.12

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Added

• 🛠️ Multiple Tool Calls Support for Native Function Mode: Functions now can call multiple tools within a single response, unlocking better automation and workflow flexibility when using native function calling.

Fixed

• 📝 Playground Text Completion Restored: Addressed an issue where text completion in the Playground was not functioning.
• 🔗 Direct Connections Now Work for Regular Users: Fixed a bug where users with the 'user' role couldn't establish direct API connections, enabling seamless model usage for all user tiers.
• ⚡ Landing Page Input No Longer Lags with Long Text: Improved input responsiveness on the landing page, ensuring fast and smooth typing experiences even when entering long messages.
• 🔧 Parameter in Functions Fixed: Fixed an issue where the reserved parameters wasn’t recognized within functions, restoring full functionality for advanced task-based automation.

v0.5.12

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[0.5.12] - 2025-02-13

Added

• 🛠️ Multiple Tool Calls Support for Native Function Mode: Functions now can call multiple tools within a single response, unlocking better automation and workflow flexibility when using native function calling.

Fixed

• 📝 Playground Text Completion Restored: Addressed an issue where text completion in the Playground was not functioning.
• 🔗 Direct Connections Now Work for Regular Users: Fixed a bug where users with the 'user' role couldn't establish direct API connections, enabling seamless model usage for all user tiers.
• ⚡ Landing Page Input No Longer Lags with Long Text: Improved input responsiveness on the landing page, ensuring fast and smooth typing experiences even when entering long messages.
• 🔧 Parameter in Functions Fixed: Fixed an issue where the reserved parameters wasn’t recognized within functions, restoring full functionality for advanced task-based automation.

v0.5.11

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[0.5.11] - 2025-02-13

Added

• 🎤 Kokoro-JS TTS Support: A new on-device, high-quality text-to-speech engine has been integrated, vastly improving voice generation quality—everything runs directly in your browser.
• 🐍 Jupyter Notebook Support in Code Interpreter: Now, you can configure Code Interpreter to run Python code not only via Pyodide but also through Jupyter, offering a more robust coding environment for AI-driven computations and analysis.
• 🔗 Direct API Connections for Private & Local Inference: You can now connect Open WebUI to your private or localhost API inference endpoints. CORS must be enabled, but this unlocks direct, on-device AI infrastructure support.
• 🔍 Advanced Domain Filtering for Web Search: You can now specify which domains should be included or excluded from web searches, refining results for more relevant information retrieval.
• 🚀 Improved Image Generation Metadata Handling: Generated images now retain metadata for better organization and future retrieval.
• 📂 S3 Key Prefix Support: Fine-grained control over S3 storage file structuring with configurable key prefixes.
• 📸 Support for Image-Only Messages: Send messages containing only images, facilitating more visual-centric interactions.
• 🌍 Updated Translations: German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Catalan translations updated for better multilingual support.

Fixed

• 🔧 OAuth Debug Logs & Username Claim Fixes: Debug logs have been added for OAuth role and group management, with fixes ensuring proper OAuth username retrieval and claim handling.
• 📌 Citations Formatting & Toggle Fixes: Inline citation toggles now function correctly, and citations with more than three sources are now fully visible when expanded.
• 📸 ComfyUI Maximum Seed Value Constraint Fixed: The maximum allowed seed value for ComfyUI has been corrected, preventing unintended behavior.
• 🔑 Connection Settings Stability: Addressed connection settings issues that were causing instability when saving configurations.
• 📂 GGUF Model Upload Stability: Fixed upload inconsistencies for GGUF models, ensuring reliable local model handling.
• 🔧 Web Search Configuration Bug: Fixed issues where web search filters and settings weren't correctly applied.
• 💾 User Settings Persistence Fix: Ensured user-specific settings are correctly saved and applied across sessions.
• 🔄 OpenID Username Retrieval Enhancement: Usernames are now correctly picked up and assigned for OpenID Connect (OIDC) logins.

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v0.5.11

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Added

• 🎤 Kokoro-JS TTS Support: A new on-device, high-quality text-to-speech engine has been integrated, vastly improving voice generation quality—everything runs directly in your browser.
• 🐍 Jupyter Notebook Support in Code Interpreter: Now, you can configure Code Interpreter to run Python code not only via Pyodide but also through Jupyter, offering a more robust coding environment for AI-driven computations and analysis.
• 🔗 Direct API Connections for Private & Local Inference: You can now connect Open WebUI to your private or localhost API inference endpoints. CORS must be enabled, but this unlocks direct, on-device AI infrastructure support.
• 🔍 Advanced Domain Filtering for Web Search: You can now specify which domains should be included or excluded from web searches, refining results for more relevant information retrieval.
• 🚀 Improved Image Generation Metadata Handling: Generated images now retain metadata for better organization and future retrieval.
• 📂 S3 Key Prefix Support: Fine-grained control over S3 storage file structuring with configurable key prefixes.
• 📸 Support for Image-Only Messages: Send messages containing only images, facilitating more visual-centric interactions.
• 🌍 Updated Translations: German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Catalan translations updated for better multilingual support.

Fixed

• 🔧 OAuth Debug Logs & Username Claim Fixes: Debug logs have been added for OAuth role and group management, with fixes ensuring proper OAuth username retrieval and claim handling.
• 📌 Citations Formatting & Toggle Fixes: Inline citation toggles now function correctly, and citations with more than three sources are now fully visible when expanded.
• 📸 ComfyUI Maximum Seed Value Constraint Fixed: The maximum allowed seed value for ComfyUI has been corrected, preventing unintended behavior.
• 🔑 Connection Settings Stability: Addressed connection settings issues that were causing instability when saving configurations.
• 📂 GGUF Model Upload Stability: Fixed upload inconsistencies for GGUF models, ensuring reliable local model handling.
• 🔧 Web Search Configuration Bug: Fixed issues where web search filters and settings weren't correctly applied.
• 💾 User Settings Persistence Fix: Ensured user-specific settings are correctly saved and applied across sessions.
• 🔄 OpenID Username Retrieval Enhancement: Usernames are now correctly picked up and assigned for OpenID Connect (OIDC) logins.

v0.5.10

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Fixed

• ⚙️ System Prompts Now Properly Templated via API: Resolved an issue where system prompts were not being correctly processed when used through the API, ensuring template variables now function as expected.
• 📝 '' Tag Display Issue Fixed: Fixed a bug where the 'thinking' tag was disrupting content rendering, ensuring clean and accurate text display.
• 💻 Code Interpreter Stability with Custom Functions: Addressed failures when using the Code Interpreter with certain custom functions like Anthropic, ensuring smoother execution and better compatibility.

v0.5.10

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[0.5.10] - 2025-02-05

Fixed

• ⚙️ System Prompts Now Properly Templated via API: Resolved an issue where system prompts were not being correctly processed when used through the API, ensuring template variables now function as expected.
• 📝 'thinking' Tag Display Issue Fixed: Fixed a bug where the 'thinking' tag was disrupting content rendering, ensuring clean and accurate text display.
• 💻 Code Interpreter Stability with Custom Functions: Addressed failures when using the Code Interpreter with certain custom functions like Anthropic, ensuring smoother execution and better compatibility.