OpenWebUI - Package Updates

[Package Updates]

[2.10.8]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.6
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• ** 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
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• ** 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
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• ** 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
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• ** 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
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• ** 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.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.15]

• Update ollama to 0.5.12
• Full Changelog
• Perplexity R1 1776: A version of the DeepSeek-R1 model that has been post trained to remove its refusal to respond to some sensitive topics.
• The OpenAI-compatible API will now return tool_calls if the model called a tool
• Performance on certain Intel Xeon processors should now be restored
• Fixed permission denied issues after installing Ollama on Linux

[Package Updates]

[2.10.16]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.18
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• ** 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.
• ** 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.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.17]

• Update ollama to 0.5.13
• Full Changelog
• Phi-4-Mini: Phi-4-mini brings significant enhancements in multilingual support, reasoning, and mathematics, and now, the long-awaited function calling feature is finally supported.
• Granite-3.2-Vision: A compact and efficient vision-language model, specifically designed for visual document understanding, enabling automated content extraction from tables, charts, infographics, plots, diagrams, and more.
• Command R7B Arabic: A new state-of-the-art version of the lightweight Command R7B model that excels in advanced Arabic language capabilities for enterprises in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
• The default context length can now be set with a new OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH environment variable. For example, to set the default context length to 8K, use: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 ollama serve
• Ollama is now compiled for NVIDIA Blackwell

[Package Updates]

[2.10.18]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.19
• Full Changelog
• ** Logit Bias Parameter Support**: Fine-tune conversation dynamics by adjusting the Logit Bias parameter directly in chat settings, giving you more control over model responses.
• ** Customizable Enter Behavior**: You can now configure Enter to send messages only when combined with Ctrl (Ctrl+Enter) via Settings > Interface, preventing accidental message sends.
• ** Collapsible Code Blocks**: Easily collapse long code blocks to declutter your chat, making it easier to focus on important details.
• ** Tag Selector in Model Selector**: Quickly find and categorize models with the new tag filtering system in the Model Selector, streamlining model discovery.
• ** Experimental Elasticsearch Vector DB Support**: Now supports Elasticsearch as a vector database, offering more flexibility for data retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows.
• ** General Reliability Enhancements**: Various stability improvements across the WebUI, ensuring a smoother, more consistent experience.
• ** Updated Translations**: Refined multilingual support for better localization and accuracy across various languages.
• ** "Stream" Hook Activation**: Fixed an issue where the "Stream" hook only worked when globally enabled, ensuring reliable real-time filtering.
• ** LDAP Email Case Sensitivity**: Resolved an issue where LDAP login failed due to email case sensitivity mismatches, improving authentication reliability.
• ** WebSocket Chat Event Registration**: Fixed a bug preventing chat event listeners from being registered upon sign-in, ensuring real-time updates work properly.

[Package Updates]

[2.10.19]

• Update open-webui to 0.5.20
• Full Changelog
• ** 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.
• ** 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.

[Package Updates]

[2.11.0]

• Update ollama to 0.6.0
• Full Changelog
• Gemma 3: Google Gemma 3 model is now available in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes.
• Fixed error that would occur when running snowflake-arctic-embed and snowflake-arctic-embed2 models
• @​iBreaker made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/9565
• @​zhu-xiaowei made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/9540
• @​dwt made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/9569
• @​vincentkoc made their first contribution in https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/9626

[Package Updates]

[2.11.1]

• Update ollama to 0.6.1

[Package Updates]

[2.11.2]

• Update ollama to 0.6.2

[Package Updates]

[2.12.0]

• Update base image to 5.0.0

[Package Updates]

[2.12.1]

• Update ollama to 0.6.3

[Package Updates]

[2.13.0]

• Update open-webui to 0.6.0
• Full Changelog
• External Tool Server Support via OpenAPI: Connect Open WebUI to any OpenAPI-compatible REST server instantlyoffering 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 asynchronouslyfeed 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 qualityperfect 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 toolsideal for privacy, team control, and internal deployments.

[Package Updates]

[2.13.1]

• Update ollama to 0.6.4