v0.6.2

[0.6.2] - 2025-04-06

Added

• 🌍 Improved Global Language Support: Expanded and refined translations across multiple languages to enhance clarity and consistency for international users.

Fixed

• 🛠️ Accurate Tool Descriptions from OpenAPI Servers: External tools now use full endpoint descriptions instead of summaries when generating tool specifications—helping AI models understand tool purpose more precisely and choose the right tool more accurately in tool workflows.
• 🔧 Precise Web Results Source Attribution: Fixed a key issue where all web search results showed the same source ID—now each result gets its correct and distinct source, ensuring accurate citations and traceability.
• 🔍 Clean Web Search Retrieval: Web search now retains only results from URLs where real content was successfully fetched—improving accuracy and removing empty or broken links from citations.
• 🎵 Audio File Upload Response Restored: Resolved an issue where uploading audio files did not return valid responses, restoring smooth file handling for transcription and audio-based workflows.

Changed

• 🧰 General Backend Refactoring: Multiple behind-the-scenes improvements streamline backend performance, reduce complexity, and ensure a more stable, maintainable system overall—making everything smoother without changing your workflow.

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.