OpenWebUI - Package Updates

[Package Updates]

[2.9.0]

• CLOUDRON_OIDC_PROVIDER_NAME implemented
• checklist added

[Package Updates]

[2.9.1]

• Add storage info to checklist

[Package Updates]

[2.10.0]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.0
• Full Changelog
• ** True Asynchronous Chat Support**: Create chats, navigate away, and return anytime with responses ready. Ideal for reasoning models and multi-agent workflows, enhancing multitasking like never before.
• ** Chat Completion Notifications**: Never miss a completed response. Receive instant in-UI notifications when a chat finishes in a non-active tab, keeping you updated while you work elsewhere.
• ** Notification Webhook Integration**: Get alerts via webhooks even when your tab is closed! Configure your webhook URL in Settings > Account and receive timely updates for long-running chats or external integration needs.
• ** Channels (Beta)**: Explore Discord/Slack-style chat rooms designed for real-time collaboration between users and AIs. Build bots for channels and unlock asynchronous communication for proactive multi-agent workflows. Opt-in via Admin Settings > General. A Comprehensive Bot SDK tutorial (https://github.com/open-webui/bot) is incoming, so stay tuned!
• ** Client-Side Image Compression**: Now compress images before upload (Settings > Interface), saving bandwidth and improving performance seamlessly.
• ** OAuth Management for User Groups**: Enable group-level management via OAuth integration for enhanced control and scalability in collaborative environments.
• ** Structured Output for Ollama**: Pass structured data output directly to Ollama, unlocking new possibilities for streamlined automation and precise data handling.
• ** Offline Swagger Documentation**: Developer-friendly Swagger API docs are now available offline, ensuring full accessibility wherever you are.
• ** Quick Screen Capture Button**: Effortlessly capture your screen with a single click from the message input menu.
• ** i18n Updates**: Improved and refined translations across several languages, including Ukrainian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, and more, ensuring a seamless global user experience.
• ** Table Export to CSV**: Resolved issues with CSV export where headers were missing or errors occurred due to values with commas, ensuring smooth and reliable data handling.
• ** BYPASS_MODEL_ACCESS_CONTROL**: Fixed an issue where users could see models but couldnt use them with 'BYPASS_MODEL_ACCESS_CONTROL=True', restoring proper functionality for environments leveraging this setting.
• ** API Key Authentication Restriction**: Narrowed API key auth permissions to '/api/models' and '/api/chat/completions' for enhanced security and better API governance.
• ** Backend Overhaul for Performance**: Major backend restructuring; a heads-up that some "Functions" using internal variables may face compatibility issues. Moving forward, websocket support is mandatory to ensure Open WebUI operates seamlessly.
• ** Legacy Functionality Clean-Up**: Deprecated outdated backend systems that were non-essential or overlapped with newer implementations, allowing for a leaner, more efficient platform.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.1]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.1
• Full Changelog
• Notification Sound Toggle: Added a new setting under Settings > Interface to disable notification sounds, giving you greater control over your workspace environment and focus.
• Non-Streaming Response Visibility: Resolved an issue where non-streaming responses were not displayed, ensuring all responses are now reliably shown in your conversations.
• Title Generation with OpenAI APIs: Fixed a bug preventing title generation when using OpenAI APIs, restoring the ability to automatically generate chat titles for smoother organization.
• Admin Panel User List: Addressed the issue where only 50 users were visible in the admin panel. You can now manage and view all users without restrictions.
• Image Generation Error: Fixed the issue causing 'get_automatic1111_api_auth()' errors in image generation, ensuring seamless creative workflows.
• Pipeline Settings Loading Issue: Resolved a problem where pipeline settings were stuck at the loading screen, restoring full configurability in the admin panel.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.2]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.2
• Full Changelog
• Typing Indicators in Channels: Know exactly whos typing in real-time within your channels, enhancing collaboration and keeping everyone engaged.
• User Status Indicators: Quickly view a users status by clicking their profile image in channels for better coordination and availability insights.
• Configurable API Key Authentication Restrictions: Flexibly configure endpoint restrictions for API key authentication, now off by default for a smoother setup in trusted environments.
• Playground Functionality Restored: Resolved a critical issue where the playground wasnt working, ensuring seamless experimentation and troubleshooting workflows.
• Corrected Ollama Usage Statistics: Fixed a calculation error in Ollamas usage statistics, providing more accurate tracking and insights for better resource management.
• Pipelines Outlet Hook Registration: Addressed an issue where outlet hooks for pipelines werent registered, restoring functionality and consistency in pipeline workflows.
• Image Generation Error: Resolved a persistent issue causing errors with 'get_automatic1111_api_auth()' to ensure smooth image generation workflows.
• Text-to-Speech Error: Fixed the missing argument in Eleven Labs 'get_available_voices()', restoring full text-to-speech capabilities for uninterrupted voice interactions.
• Title Generation Issue: Fixed a bug where title generation was not working in certain cases, ensuring consistent and reliable chat organization.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.3]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.3
• Full Changelog
• ** Channel Reactions with Built-In Emoji Picker**: Easily express yourself in channel threads and messages with reactions, featuring an intuitive built-in emoji picker for seamless selection.
• ** Threads for Channels**: Organize discussions within channels by creating threads, improving clarity and fostering focused conversations.
• ** Reset Button for SVG Pan/Zoom**: Added a handy reset button to SVG Pan/Zoom, allowing users to quickly return diagrams or visuals to their default state without hassle.
• ** Realtime Chat Save Environment Variable**: Introduced the ENABLE_REALTIME_CHAT_SAVE environment variable. Choose between faster responses by disabling realtime chat saving or ensuring chunk-by-chunk data persistency for critical operations.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.4]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.4
• Full Changelog
• ** Clone Shared Chats**: Effortlessly clone shared chats to save time and streamline collaboration, perfect for reusing insightful discussions or custom setups.
• ** Native Notifications for Channel Messages**: Stay informed with integrated desktop notifications for channel messages, ensuring you never miss important updates while multitasking.
• ** Torch MPS Support**: MPS support for Mac users when Open WebUI is installed directly, offering better performance and compatibility for AI workloads.
• ** Enhanced Translations**: Small improvements to various translations, ensuring a smoother global user experience.
• ** Image-Only Messages in Channels**: You can now send images without accompanying text or content in channels.
• ** Proper Exception Handling**: Enhanced error feedback by ensuring exceptions are raised clearly, reducing confusion and promoting smoother debugging.
• ** RAG Query Generation Restored**: Fixed query generation issues for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, improving retrieval accuracy and ensuring seamless functionality.
• ** MOA Response Functionality Fixed**: Addressed an error with the MOA response generation feature.
• ** Channel Thread Loading with 50+ Messages**: Resolved an issue where channel threads stalled when exceeding 50 messages, ensuring smooth navigation in active discussions.
• ** API Endpoint Restrictions Resolution**: Fixed a critical bug where the 'API_KEY_ALLOWED_ENDPOINTS' setting was not functioning as intended, ensuring API access is limited to specified endpoints for enhanced security.
• ** Action Functions Restored**: Corrected an issue preventing action functions from working, restoring their utility for customized automations and workflows.
• ** Temporary Chat JSON Export Fix**: Resolved a bug blocking temporary chats from being exported in JSON format, ensuring seamless data portability.
• ** Sidebar UI Tweaks**: Chat folders, including pinned folders, now display below the Chats section for better organization; the "New Folder" button has been relocated to the Chats section for a more intuitive workflow.
• ** Real-Time Save Disabled by Default**: The 'ENABLE_REALTIME_CHAT_SAVE' setting is now off by default, boosting response speed for users who prioritize performance in high-paced workflows or less critical scenarios.
• ** Audio Input Echo Cancellation**: Audio input now features echo cancellation enabled by default, reducing audio feedback for improved clarity during conversations or voice-based interactions.
• ** General Reliability Improvements**: Numerous under-the-hood enhancements have been made to improve platform stability, boost overall performance, and ensure a more seamless, dependable experience across workflows.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.5]

• Update ollama to 0.5.5
• Phi-4: Phi 4 is a 14B parameter, state-of-the-art open model from Microsoft.
• Command R7B: the smallest model in Cohere's R series delivers top-tier speed, efficiency, and quality to build powerful AI applications on commodity GPUs and edge devices.
• DeepSeek-V3: A strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token.
• OLMo 2: a new family of 7B and 13B models trained on up to 5T tokens. These models are on par with or better than equivalently sized fully open models, and competitive with open-weight models such as Llama 3.1 on English academic benchmarks.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.6]

• Update ollama to 0.5.6
• Full Changelog
• Fixed errors that would occur when running ollama create on Windows and when using absolute paths
• @​steveberdy made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/8352

[Package Updates]

[2.10.7]

• Update ollama to 0.5.7
• Full Changelog
• Fixed issue where using two FROM commands in Modelfile
• Support importing Command R and Command R+ architectures from safetensors
• @​Gloryjaw made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/8438

[Package Updates]

[2.10.8]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.6
• Full Changelog
• ** Effortful Reasoning Control for OpenAI Models**: Introduced the reasoning_effort parameter in chat controls for supported OpenAI models, enabling users to fine-tune how much cognitive effort a model dedicates to its responses, offering greater customization for complex queries and reasoning tasks.
• ** Chat Controls Loading UI Bug**: Resolved an issue where collapsible chat controls appeared as "loading," ensuring a smoother and more intuitive user experience for managing chat settings.
• ** Updated Ollama Model Creation**: Revamped the Ollama model creation method to align with their new JSON payload format, ensuring seamless compatibility and more efficient model setup workflows.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.9]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.7
• Full Changelog
• ** Enhanced Internationalization (i18n)**: Refined and expanded translations for greater global accessibility and a smoother experience for international users.
• ** Connection Model ID Resolution**: Resolved an issue preventing model IDs from registering in connections.
• ** Prefix ID for Ollama Connections**: Fixed a bug where prefix IDs in Ollama connections were non-functional.
• ** Ollama Model Enable/Disable Functionality**: Addressed the issue of enable/disable toggles not working for Ollama base models.
• ** RBAC Permissions for Tools and Models**: Corrected incorrect Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions for tools and models, ensuring that users now only access features according to their assigned privileges, enhancing security and role clarity.

[girish]

There is a bug in recent versions that username is not picked up correctly. Made a PR - https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/9516

[Package Updates]

[2.10.10]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.10
• Full Changelog
• ** 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.
• ** "Think" Tag Display Issue**: Resolved a bug where the "Think" tag was not functioning correctly, ensuring proper visualization of the model's reasoning process before delivering responses.
• ** Code Interpreter**: Models can now execute code in real time to refine their answers dynamically, running securely within a sandboxed browser environment using Pyodide. Perfect for calculations, data analysis, and AI-assisted coding tasks!
• ** Redesigned Chat Input UI**: Enjoy a sleeker and more intuitive message input with improved feature selection, making it easier than ever to toggle tools, enable search, and interact with AI seamlessly.
• ** Native Tool Calling Support (Experimental)**: Supported models can now call tools natively, reducing query latency and improving contextual responses. More enhancements coming soon!

[Package Updates]

[2.10.11]

• Update ollama to 0.5.11

[Package Updates]

[2.10.12]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.12
• Full Changelog
• ** 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.
• ** 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 wasnt recognized within functions, restoring full functionality for advanced task-based automation.
• ** Kokoro-JS TTS Support**: A new on-device, high-quality text-to-speech engine has been integrated, vastly improving voice generation qualityeverything 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.
• ** 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.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.13]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.14
• Full Changelog
• ** 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.
• ** Full Context Mode for Web Search**: Enable highly accurate web searches by utilizing full context modeideal 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.
• ** Temporary Chat Message Continue Button Fixed**: The "Continue Response" button for temporary chats now works as expected, ensuring an uninterrupted conversation flow.
• ** 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.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.14]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.16
• Full Changelog
• ** 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.
• ** 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 windowsideal 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.