[0.8.3] - 2026-02-17

Added

• ✏️ Model edit shortcut. Users can now edit models directly from the model selector dropdown menu, making it faster to modify model settings without navigating to separate admin or workspace pages. Commit
• 🎨 Image edit API background support. The image edit API now supports the background parameter for OpenAI's gpt-image-1 model, enabling background transparency control ("transparent", "opaque", "auto") when the feature is exposed in the UI. #21459
• ⚡ Faster model filtering. Model access control filtering no longer makes a redundant database query to re-fetch model info that is already available in memory, reducing latency when loading model lists for non-admin users. Commit
• 🔧 Tool call display improvements. Tool call results now display arguments in a cleaner key-value format instead of raw JSON, with a responsive layout that shows only the tool name on narrow screens and the full label on wider screens, preventing text wrapping to multiple lines. Commit
• 🔄 General improvements. Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
• 🌐 Translations for Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 📧 USER_EMAIL variable fix. The {{USER_EMAIL}} template variable now correctly returns the user's email address instead of "Unknown" in prompts. #21479, #21465
• 🖼️ Image and file attachment handling fixes. Uploaded images are now correctly sent to vision-enabled models, and file attachments now work even when no user text is entered alongside a system prompt. This fixes two issues where the backend was not properly processing file attachments: images weren't converted to the expected format for API requests, and file context was dropped when the user sent only a file without accompanying text. Commit, #21477, #21457
• 🛡️ Missing function error handling. Models that reference deleted functions no longer cause the entire /api/models endpoint to crash; instead, the missing functions are skipped and logged, allowing the rest of the models to load successfully. #21476, #21464
• 🚀 Startup model pre-fetch error handling. If model pre-fetching fails during app startup, the application now logs a warning and continues instead of crashing entirely. Commit
• ⚙️ Function module loading error handling. Function modules that fail to load during startup or model processing are now caught and logged, preventing crashes when models reference functions with loading errors. Commit
• 🗄️ PostgreSQL group query fix. The '/api/v1/groups/' endpoint no longer fails with a GROUP BY error when using PostgreSQL; member counts are now calculated using correlated subqueries for better database compatibility. #21458, #21467

[0.8.2] - 2026-02-16

Added

• 🧠 Skill content handling. User-selected skills now have their full content injected into the chat, while model-attached skills only display name and description in the available skills list. This allows users to override skill behavior while model-attached skills remain flexible. Commit
• ⚙️ Chat toggles now control built-in tools. Users can now disable web search, image generation, and code execution on a per-conversation basis, even when those tools are enabled as builtin tools on the model. #20641, #21318, Commit, Commit
• 🖼️ Image preview in file modal. Images uploaded to chats can now be previewed directly in the file management modal, making it easier to identify and manage image files. #21413, Commit
• 🏷️ Batch tag operations. Tag creation, deletion, and orphan cleanup for chats now use batch database queries instead of per-tag loops, significantly reducing database round trips when updating, archiving, or deleting chats with multiple tags. Commit
• 💨 Faster group list loading. Group lists and search results now load with a single database query that joins member counts, replacing the previous pattern of fetching groups first and then counting members in a separate batch query. Commit
• 🔐 Skills sharing permissions. Administrators can now control skills sharing and public sharing permissions per-group, matching the existing capabilities for tools, knowledge, and prompts. Commit
• ⚡ Long content truncation in preview modals. Citation and file content modals now truncate markdown-rendered content at 10,000 characters with a "Show all" expansion button, preventing UI jank when previewing very large documents.
• 🌐 Translation updates. Translations for Spanish and German were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

• 🔐 OAuth session error handling. Corrupted OAuth sessions are now gracefully handled and automatically cleaned up instead of causing errors. Commit
• 🐛 Task model selector validation. The task model selector in admin settings now correctly accepts models based on the new access grants system instead of rejecting all models with an incorrect error. Commit
• 🔗 Tool call message preservation. Models no longer hallucinate tool outputs in multi-turn conversations because tool call history is now properly preserved instead of being merged into assistant messages. #21098, #20600, Commit
• 🔧 Tool server startup initialization. External tool servers configured via the "TOOL_SERVER_CONNECTIONS" environment variable now initialize automatically on startup, eliminating the need to manually visit the Admin Panel and save for tools to become available. This enables proper GitOps and containerized deployments. #18140, #20914, Commit
• ♻️ Resource handle cleanup. File handles are now properly closed during audio transcription and pipeline uploads, preventing resource leaks that could cause system instability over time. #21411
• ⌨️ Strikethrough shortcut conflict fix. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+S to toggle the sidebar no longer causes text to become struck through in the chat input, by disabling the TipTap Strike extension's default keyboard shortcut when rich text mode is off. Commit
• 🔧 Tool call finish_reason fix. API responses now correctly set finish_reason to "tool_calls" instead of "stop" when tool calls are present, fixing an issue where external API clients (such as OpenCode) would halt prematurely after tool execution when routing Ollama models through the Open WebUI API. #20896

[0.8.1] - 2026-02-14

Added

• 🚀 Channel user active status. Checking user active status in channels is now faster thanks to optimized database queries. Commit
• 🔗 Responses API endpoint with model routing. The OpenAI API proxy now supports a /responses endpoint that routes requests to the correct backend based on the model field in the request, instead of always using the first configured endpoint. This enables support for backends like vLLM that provide /skills and /v1/responses endpoints. Commit, Commit
• ⚡ Model and prompt list optimization. Improved performance when loading models and prompts by pre-fetching user group IDs once instead of making multiple database queries. Commit
• 🗄️ Batch access control queries. Improved performance when loading models, prompts, and knowledge bases by replacing multiple individual access checks with single batch queries, significantly reducing database load for large deployments. Commit
• 💨 Faster user list loading. User lists now load significantly faster by deferring profile image loading; images are fetched separately in parallel by the browser, improving caching and reducing database load. Commit
• 🔍 Web search result count. The built-in search_web tool now respects the admin-configured "Search Result Count" setting instead of always returning 5 results when using Native Function Calling mode. #21373, #21371
• 🔐 SCIM externalId support. SCIM-enabled deployments can now store and manage externalId for user provisioning, enabling better integration with identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. #21099, #21280, Commit
• 🌐 Translation updates. Portuguese (Brazil) translations were updated.

Fixed

• 🛡️ Public sharing security fix. Fixed a security issue where users with write access could see the Public sharing option regardless of their actual public sharing permission, and direct API calls could bypass frontend sharing restrictions. #21358, #21356
• 🔒 Direct model access control fix. Model access control changes now persist correctly for direct Ollama and OpenAI models that don't have database entries, and error messages display properly instead of showing "[object Object]". Commit, #21377
• 💭 Reasoning trace rendering performance. Reasoning traces from models now render properly without being split into many fragments, preventing browser slowdowns during streaming responses. #21348, Commit
• 🖥️ ARM device compatibility fix. Fixed an issue where upgrading to 0.8.0 would fail to start on ARM devices (like Raspberry Pi 4) due to torch 2.10.0 causing SIGILL errors; now pinned to torch<=2.9.1. #21385, #21349
• 🗄️ Skills PostgreSQL compatibility fix. Fixed a PostgreSQL compatibility issue where creating or listing skills would fail with a TypeError, while SQLite worked correctly. #21372, Commit, #21365
• 🗄️ PostgreSQL analytics query fix. Fixed an issue where retrieving chat IDs by model ID would fail on PostgreSQL due to incompatible DISTINCT ordering, while SQLite worked correctly. #21347, Commit
• 🗃️ SQLite cascade delete fix. Deleting chats now properly removes all associated messages in SQLite, matching PostgreSQL behavior and preventing orphaned data. #21362
• ☁️ Ollama Cloud model naming fix. Fixed an issue where using Ollama Cloud models would fail with "Model not found" errors because ":latest" was incorrectly appended to model names. #21386
• 🛠️ Knowledge selector tooltip z-index. Fixed an issue where tooltips in the "Select Knowledge" dropdown were hidden behind the menu, making it difficult to read knowledge item names and descriptions. #21375
• 🎯 Model selector scroll position. The model selector dropdown now correctly scrolls to and centers the currently selected model when opened, and resets scroll position when reopened. Commit
• 🐛 Sync modal unexpected appearance. Fixed an issue where the Sync Modal would appear unexpectedly after enabling the "Community Sharing" feature if the user had previously visited the app with the sync parameter. #21376
• 🎨 Knowledge collection layout fix. Fixed a layout issue in the Knowledge integration menu where long collection names caused indentation artifacts and now properly truncate with ellipsis. #21374
• 📝 Metadata processing crash fix. Fixed a latent bug where processing document metadata containing certain keys (content, pages, tables, paragraphs, sections, figures) would cause a RuntimeError due to dictionary mutation during iteration. #21105
• 🔑 Password validation regex fix. Fixed the password validation regex by adding the raw string prefix, ensuring escape sequences like d and w are interpreted correctly. #21400, #21399

Changed

• ⚠️ Database Migrations: This release includes database schema changes; we strongly recommend backing up your database and all associated data before upgrading in production environments. If you are running a multi-worker, multi-server, or load-balanced deployment, all instances must be updated simultaneously, rolling updates are not supported and will cause application failures due to schema incompatibility.

[0.8.0] - 2026-02-12

Added

• 📊 Analytics dashboard. Administrators now have access to an Analytics dashboard showing model usage statistics, token consumption by model and user, user activity rankings, and time-series charts with hourly or daily granularity; clicking any model opens a detail view with feedback history, associated tags, and chat browser, and results can be filtered by user group. #21106, Commit, Commit
• 🎯 Experimental support for Skills. Open WebUI now supports the Skill standard — allowing users to create and manage reusable AI skills with detailed instructions, reference them in chats using the "$" command, or attach them to specific models for automatic context in conversations. #21312
• 🧪 Experimental support for Open Responses protocol. Connections can now be configured to use the experimental Open Responses protocol instead of Chat Completions, enabling native support for extended thinking, streaming reasoning tokens, and richer tool call handling for compatible providers. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 👥 Redesigned access control UI. The access control UI was redesigned with a more intuitive interface that makes it easier to add multiple groups at once. #21277
• 👤 Per-user resource sharing. Resources including knowledge bases, prompts, models, tools, channels, and base models can now be shared directly to individual users alongside the existing per-group sharing capability. #21277
• 📨 Message queuing. Messages can now be queued while a response is generating rather than being blocked, allowing you to continue your train of thought; queued messages are automatically combined and sent when generation completes, and can be edited, deleted, or sent immediately from the input area. Commit, Commit
• 💡 Active task sidebar indicator. Users can now see which chats have active tasks running directly in the sidebar. Commit
• 📝 Prompt version control. Prompts now include version control with full history tracking, allowing users to commit changes with messages, view past versions, compare differences between versions, and roll back to previous versions when needed. #20945
• 🏷️ Prompt tags. Prompts can now be organized with tags, and users can filter the prompt workspace by tag to quickly find related prompts across large collections. #20945
• 🐍 Native function calling code execution. Code execution now works with Native function calling mode, allowing models to autonomously run Python code for calculations, data analysis, and visualizations without requiring Default mode. #20592, Docs:#998
• 🚀 Async web search. Web search operations now run asynchronously in the background, allowing users to continue interacting with the application while searches complete. #20630
• ⚡ Search debouncing. Search operations across the application now respond more efficiently with debouncing that reduces unnecessary server requests while typing, improving responsiveness when searching users, groups, functions, tools, prompts, knowledge bases, notes, and when using the knowledge and prompts commands in chat. #20982, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🤝 Shared chats management. Users can now view and manage all their shared chats from Settings, with options to copy share links or unshare conversations they no longer want public. Commit
• 📁 User file management. Users can now view, search, and delete all their uploaded files from Settings, providing centralized file management in one place. Commit, #21047
• 🗑️ Shift-click quick delete. Files in the File Manager can now be quickly deleted by holding Shift and clicking the delete button, bypassing the confirmation dialog for faster bulk cleanup. #21044
• ⌨️ Model selector shortcut. The model selector can now be opened with Ctrl+Shift+M keyboard shortcut. #21130
• 🧠 Smarter knowledge vs web search. Models now choose more intelligently between knowledge base search and web search rather than always trying knowledge first. #21115
• 🌍 Community model reviews. Users can now access community reviews for models directly from the model selector menu and are prompted to leave reviews after rating responses, with administrators able to disable this via the "Community Sharing" setting. Commit
• 📄 Prompts workspace pagination. The prompts workspace now includes pagination for large prompt collections, loading 30 prompts at a time with search, filtering, and sorting capabilities for improved performance and navigation. Commit
• 🎨 Action function HTML rendering. Action functions can now render rich HTML content directly in chat as embedded iframes, matching the capabilities that tools already had and eliminating the need for action authors to inject codeblocks. #21294, Commit
• 🔒 Password-masked valve fields. Tool and function developers can now mark sensitive fields as passwords, which are automatically masked in the settings UI to prevent shoulder surfing and accidental exposure. #20852, Commit
• 📋 Prompt quick copy. Prompts in the workspace now include a quick copy button for easily copying prompt content to the clipboard. Commit
• 🔔 Dismissible notification toasts. Notification toasts for new messages and other events now include a close button that appears on hover, allowing users to dismiss them immediately instead of waiting for auto-dismissal. #21056, Commit
• 🔔 Temporary chat notification privacy. Notifications from temporary chats now only appear on the device where the chat is running, preventing privacy leaks across logged-in sessions. #21292
• 💡 Null chat title fallback. Notifications without chat titles now display "New Chat" instead of showing null. #21292
• 🖼️ Concurrent image editing. Image editing operations with multiple images now complete faster by loa...

[0.7.2] - 2026-01-10

Fixed

• ⚡ Users no longer experience database connection timeouts under high concurrency due to connections being held during LLM calls, telemetry collection, and file status streaming. #20545, #20542, #20547
• 📝 Users can now create and save prompts in the workspace prompts editor without encountering errors. Commit
• 🎙️ Users can now use local Whisper for speech-to-text when STT_ENGINE is left empty (the default for local mode). #20534
• 📊 The Evaluations page now loads faster by eliminating duplicate API calls to the leaderboard and feedbacks endpoints. Commit
• 🌐 Fixed missing Settings tab i18n label keys. #20526

[0.7.1] - 2026-01-09

Fixed

• ⚡ Improved reliability for low-spec and SQLite deployments. Fixed page timeouts by disabling database session sharing by default, improving stability for resource-constrained environments. Users can re-enable via 'DATABASE_ENABLE_SESSION_SHARING=true' if needed. #20520

[0.7.0] - 2026-01-09

Added

• 🤖 Native Function Calling with Built-in Tools. Users can now ask models to perform multi-step tasks that combine web research, knowledge base queries, note-taking, and image generation in a single conversation—for example, "research the latest on X, save key findings to a note, and generate an infographic." Requires models with native function calling support and function calling mode set to "Native" in Chat Controls. #19397, Commit
• 🧠 Users can now ask the model to find relevant context from their notes, past chats, and channel messages—for example, "what did I discuss about project X last week?" or "find the conversation where I brainstormed ideas for Y." Commit
• 📚 Users can now ask the model to search their knowledge bases and retrieve documents without manually attaching files—for example, "find the section about authentication in our API docs" or "what do our internal guidelines say about X?" Commit
• 💭 Users with models that support interleaved thinking now get more refined results from multi-step workflows, as the model can analyze each tool's output before deciding what to do next.
• 🔍 When models invoke web search, search results appear as clickable citations in real-time for full source verification. Commit
• 🎚️ Users can selectively disable specific built-in tools (timestamps, memory, chat history, notes, web search, knowledge bases) per model via the model editor's capabilities settings. Commit
• 👁️ Pending tool calls are now displayed during response generation, so users know which tools are being invoked. Commit
• 📁 Administrators can now limit the number of files that can be uploaded to folders using the "FOLDER_MAX_FILE_COUNT" setting, preventing resource exhaustion from bulk uploads. #19810, Commit, Commit
• ⚡ Users experience transformative speed improvements across the entire application through completely reengineered database connection handling, delivering noticeably faster page loads, butter-smooth interactions, and rock-solid stability during intensive operations like user management and bulk data processing. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🚀 Users experience significantly faster initial page load times through dynamic loading of document processing libraries, reducing the initial bundle size. #20200, #20202, #20203, #20204
• 💨 Administrators experience dramatically faster user list loading through optimized database queries that eliminate N+1 query patterns, reducing query count from 1+N to just 2 total queries regardless of user count. #20427
• 📋 Notes now load faster through optimized database queries that batch user lookups instead of fetching each note's author individually. Commit
• 💬 Channel messages, pinned messages, and thread replies now load faster through batched user lookups instead of individual queries per message. #20458, #20459, #20460
• 🔗 Users can now click citation content links to jump directly to the relevant portion of source documents with automatic text highlighting, making it easier to verify AI responses against their original sources. #20116, Commit
• 📌 Users can now pin or hide models directly from the Workspace Models page and Admin Settings Models page, making it easier to manage which models appear in the sidebar without switching to the chat interface. #20176
• 🔎 Administrators can now quickly find settings using the new search bar in the Admin Settings sidebar, which supports fuzzy filtering by category names and related keywords like "whisper" for Audio or "rag" for Documents. #20434
• 🎛️ Users can now view read-only models in the workspace models list, with clear "Read Only" badges indicating when editing is restricted. #20243, #20369
• 📝 Users can now view read-only prompts in the workspace prompts list, with clear "Read Only" badges indicating when editing is restricted. #20368
• 🔧 Users can now view read-only tools in the workspace tools list, with clear "Read Only" badges indicating when editing is restricted. #20243, #20370
• 📂 Searching for files is now significantly faster, especially for users with large file collections. Commit
• 🏆 The Evaluations leaderboard now calculates Elo ratings on the backend instead of in the browser, improving performance and enabling topic-based model ranking through semantic search. #15392, #20476, Commit
• 📊 The Evaluations leaderboard now includes a per-model activity chart displaying daily wins and losses as a diverging bar chart, with 30-day, 1-year, and all-time views using weekly aggregation for longer timeframes.
• 🎞️ Users can now upload animated GIF and WebP formats as model profile images, with animation preserved by skipping resize processing for these file types. Commit
• 📸 Users uploading profile images for users, models, and arena models now benefit from WebP compression at 80% quality instead of JPEG, resulting in significantly smaller file sizes and faster uploads while maintaining visual quality. Commit
• ⭐ Action Function developers can now update message favorite status using the new "chat:message:favorite" event, enabling the development of pin/unpin message actions without race conditions from frontend auto-save. #20375
• 🌐 Users with OpenAI-compatible models that have web search capabilities now see URL citations displayed as sources in the interface. #20172, Commit
• 📰 Users can now dismiss the "What's New" changelog modal permanently using the X button, matching the behavior of the "Okay, Let's Go!" button. #20258
• 📧 Administrators can now configure the admin contact email displayed in the Account Pending overlay directly from the Admin Panel instead of only through environment variables. #12500, #20260
• 📄 Administrators can now enable markdown header text splitting as a preprocessing step that works with either character or token splitting, through the new "ENABLE_MARKDOWN_HEADER_TEXT_SPLITTER" setting. Commit, Commit, Commit
• 🧩 Administrators can now set a minimum chunk size target using the "CHUNK_MIN_SIZE_TARGET" setting to merge small markdown header chunks with neighbors, which improves retrieval quality by eliminating tiny meaningless fragments, significantly speeds up document processing and embedding, reduces storage costs, and lowers embedding API costs or local compute requirements. #19595, [#20314](...

[0.6.43] - 2025-12-22

Fixed

• 🐍 Python dependency installation issues were resolved by correcting pip dependency handling, preventing installation failures in certain environments and improving setup reliability. Commit
• 🎙️ Speech-to-Text default content type handling was fixed and refactored to ensure correct MIME type usage, improving compatibility across STT providers and preventing transcription errors caused by incorrect defaults. Commit
• 🖼️ Temporary chat image handling was fixed and refactored, ensuring images generated or edited in temporary chats are correctly processed, stored, and displayed without inconsistencies or missing references. Commit
• 🎨 Image action button fixed, restoring the ability to trigger image generation, editing, and related image actions from the chat UI. Commit

[0.6.42] - 2025-12-21

Added

• 📚 Knowledge base file management was overhauled with server-side pagination loading 30 files at a time instead of loading entire collections at once, dramatically improving performance and responsiveness for large knowledge bases with hundreds or thousands of files, reducing initial load times and memory usage while adding server-side search and filtering, view options for files added by the user versus shared files, customizable sorting by name or date, and file authorship tracking with upload timestamps. Commit
• ✨ Knowledge base file management was enhanced with automatic list refresh after file operations ensuring immediate UI updates, improved permission validation at the model layer, and automatic channel-file association for files uploaded with channel metadata. Commit
• 🔎 Knowledge command in chat input now uses server-side search for massive performance increases when selecting knowledge bases and files. Commit
• 🗂️ Knowledge workspace listing now uses server-side pagination loading 30 collections at a time with new search endpoints supporting query filtering and view options for created versus shared collections. Commit
• 📖 Knowledge workspace now displays all collections with read access including shared read-only collections, enabling users to discover and explore knowledge bases they don't own while maintaining proper access controls through visual "Read Only" badges and automatically disabled editing controls for name, description, file uploads, content editing, and deletion operations. Commit
• 📁 Bulk website and YouTube video attachment now supports adding multiple URLs at once (newline-separated) with automatic YouTube detection and transcript retrieval, processed sequentially to prevent resource strain, and both websites and videos can now be added directly to knowledge bases through the workspace UI. Commit, #6202, #19587, #8231
• 🪟 Sidebar width is now resizable on desktop devices with persistent storage in localStorage, enforcing minimum and maximum width constraints (220px to 480px) while all layout components now reference the dynamic sidebar width via CSS variables for consistent responsive behavior. Commit
• 📝 Notes feature now supports server-side search and filtering with view options for notes created by the user versus notes shared with them, customizable sorting by name or date in both list and grid view modes within a redesigned interface featuring consolidated note management controls in a unified header, group-based permission sharing with read, write, and read-only access control displaying note authorship and sharing status for better collaboration, and paginated infinite scroll for improved performance with large note collections. Commit
• 👁️ Notes now support read-only access permissions, allowing users to share notes for viewing without granting edit rights, with the editor automatically becoming non-editable and appropriate UI indicators when read-only access is detected. Commit
• 📄 Notes can now be created directly from the chat input field, allowing users to save drafted messages or content as notes without navigation or retyping. Commit
• 🪟 Sidebar folders, channels, and pinned models sections now automatically expand when creating new items or pinning models, providing immediate visual feedback for user actions. Commit, #19929
• 📋 Chat file associations are now properly tracked in the database through a new "chat_file" table, enabling accurate file management across chats and ensuring proper cleanup of files when chats are deleted, while improving database consistency in multi-node deployments. Commit
• 🖼️ User-uploaded images are now automatically converted from base64 to actual file storage on the server, eliminating large inline base64 strings from being stored in chat history and reducing message payload sizes while enabling better image management and sharing across multiple chats. Commit
• 📸 Shared chats with generated or edited images now correctly display images when accessed by other users by properly linking generated images to their chat and message through the chat_file table, ensuring images remain accessible in shared chat links. Commit, #19393
• 📊 File viewer modal was significantly enhanced with native-like viewers for Excel/CSV spreadsheets rendering as interactive scrollable tables with multi-sheet navigation support, Markdown documents displaying with full typography including headers, lists, links, and tables, and source code files showing syntax highlighting, all accessible through a tabbed interface defaulting to raw text view. #20035, #2867
• 📏 Chat input now displays an expand button in the top-right corner when messages exceed two lines, providing optional access to a full-screen editor for composing longer messages with enhanced workspace and visibility while temporarily disabling the main input to prevent editing conflicts. Commit
• 💬 Channel message data lazy loading was implemented, deferring attachment and file metadata retrieval until needed to improve initial message list load performance. Commit
• 🖼️ Channel image upload handling was optimized to process and store compressed images directly as files rather than inline data, improving memory efficiency and message load times. Commit
• 🎥 Video file playback support was added to channel messages, enabling inline video viewing with native player controls. Commit
• 🔐 LDAP authentication now supports user entries with multiple username attributes, correctly handling cases where the username field contains a list of values. Commit, #19878
• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The "ENABLE_PUBLIC_ACTIVE_USERS_COUNT" environment variable now allows restricting active user count visibility to administrators, reducing backend load and addressing privacy concerns in large deployments. #20027, #13026
• 🚀 Models page search input performance was optimized with a 300ms debounce to reduce server load and improve responsiveness. #19832
• 💨 Frontend performance was optimized by preventing unnecessary API calls for API Keys and Channels features when they are disabled in admin settings, reducing backend noise and improving overall system efficiency. #20043, #19967
• 📎 Channel file association tracking was implemented, automatically linking uploaded files to their respective channels with a dedicated association table enabling better organization and future file management features within channels. Commit
• 👥 User profile previews now display group membership information for easier identification of user roles and permissions. Commit
• 🌍 The "SEARXNG_LANGUAGE" environment variable now allows configuring search language for SearXNG queries, replacing the hardcoded "en-US" default with a configurable setting that defaults to "all". [#19909](...

[0.6.41] - 2025-12-02

Added

• 🚦 Sign-in rate limiting was implemented to protect against brute force attacks, limiting login attempts to 15 per 3-minute window per email address using Redis with automatic fallback to in-memory storage when Redis is unavailable. Commit
• 📂 Administrators can now globally disable the folders feature and control user-level folder permissions through the admin panel, enabling minimalist interface configurations for deployments that don't require workspace organization features. #19529, #19210, #18459, #18299
• 👥 Group channels were introduced as a new channel type enabling membership-based collaboration spaces where users explicitly join as members rather than accessing through permissions, with support for public or private visibility, automatic member inclusion from specified user groups, member role tracking with invitation metadata, and post-creation member management allowing channel managers to add or remove members through the channel info modal. Commit, Commit
• 💬 Direct Message channels were introduced with a dedicated channel type selector and multi-user member selection interface, enabling private conversations between specific users without requiring full channel visibility. Commit
• 📨 Direct Message channels now support a complete user-to-user messaging system with member-based access control, automatic deduplication for one-on-one conversations, optional channel naming, and distinct visual presentation using participant avatars instead of channel icons. Commit
• 🙈 Users can now hide Direct Message channels from their sidebar while preserving message history, with automatic reactivation when new messages arrive from other participants, providing a cleaner interface for managing active conversations. Commit
• ☑️ A comprehensive user selection component was added to the channel creation modal, featuring search functionality, sortable user lists, pagination support, and multi-select checkboxes for building Direct Message participant lists. Commit
• 🔴 Channel unread message count tracking was implemented with visual badge indicators in the sidebar, automatically updating counts in real-time and marking messages as read when users view channels, with join/leave functionality to manage membership status. Commit
• 📌 Message pinning functionality was added to channels, allowing users to pin important messages for easy reference with visual highlighting, a dedicated pinned messages modal accessible from the navbar, and complete backend support for tracking pinned status, pin timestamp, and the user who pinned each message. Commit, Commit
• 🟢 Direct Message channels now display an active status indicator for one-on-one conversations, showing a green dot when the other participant is currently online or a gray dot when offline. Commit, Commit
• 🆔 Users can now start Direct Message conversations directly from user profile previews by clicking the "Message" button, enabling quick access to private messaging without navigating away from the current channel. Commit
• ⚡ Channel messages now appear instantly when sent using optimistic UI rendering, displaying with a pending state while the server confirms delivery, providing a more responsive messaging experience. Commit
• 👍 Channel message reactions now display the names of users who reacted when hovering over the emoji, showing up to three names with a count for additional reactors. Commit
• 🛠️ Channel creators can now edit and delete their own group and DM channels without requiring administrator privileges, enabling users to manage the channels they create independently. Commit
• 🔌 A new API endpoint was added to directly get or create a Direct Message channel with a specific user by their ID, streamlining programmatic DM channel creation for integrations and frontend workflows. Commit
• 💭 Users can now set a custom status with an emoji and message that displays in profile previews, the sidebar user menu, and Direct Message channel items in the sidebar, with the ability to clear status at any time, providing visibility into availability or current focus similar to team communication platforms. Commit, Commit
• 📤 A group export API endpoint was added, enabling administrators to export complete group data including member lists for backup and migration purposes. Commit
• 📡 A new API endpoint was added to retrieve all users belonging to a specific group, enabling programmatic access to group membership information for administrative workflows. Commit
• 👁️ The admin user list now displays an active status indicator next to each user, showing a visual green dot for users who have been active within the last three minutes. Commit
• 🔑 The admin user edit modal now displays OAuth identity information with a per-provider breakdown, showing each linked identity provider and its associated subject identifier separately. #19573
• 🧩 OAuth role claim parsing now respects the "OAUTH_ROLES_SEPARATOR" configuration, enabling proper parsing of roles returned as comma-separated strings and providing consistent behavior with group claim handling. #19514
• 🎛️ Channel feature access can now be controlled through both the "USER_PERMISSIONS_FEATURES_CHANNELS" environment variable and group permission toggles in the admin panel, allowing administrators to restrict channel functionality for specific users or groups while defaulting to enabled for all users. Commit
• 🎨 The model editor interface was refined with access control settings moved to a dedicated modal, group member counts now displayed when configuring permissions, reorganized layout with improved visual hierarchy, and redesigned prompt suggestions cards with tooltips for field guidance. Commit, Commit
• 🏗️ Knowledge base file management was rebuilt with a dedicated database table replacing the previous JSON array storage, enabling pagination support for large knowledge bases, significantly faster file listing performance, and more reliable file-knowledge base relationship tracking. Commit
• ☁️ Azure Document Intelligence model selection was added, allowing administrators to specify which model to use for document processing via the "DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_MODEL" environment variable or admin UI setting, with "prebuilt-layout" as the default. #19692, Docs:#872
• 🚀 Milvus multitenancy vector database performance was improved by removing manual flush calls after upsert operations, eliminating rate limit errors and reducing load on etcd and MinIO/S3 storage by allowing Milvus to manage segment persistence automatically via its WAL and auto-flush policies. #19680
• ✨ Various improvements were implemented across the frontend and backend to enhance perf...