open-webui 0.5.5

[0.5.5] - 2025-01-22

Added

🤔 Native 'Think' Tag Support: Introduced the new 'think' tag support that visually displays how long the model is thinking, omitting the reasoning content itself until the next turn. Ideal for creating a more streamlined and focused interaction experience.
🖼️ Toggle Image Generation On/Off: In the chat input menu, you can now easily toggle image generation before initiating chats, providing greater control and flexibility to suit your needs.
🔒 Chat Controls Permissions: Admins can now disable chat controls access for users, offering tighter management and customization over user interactions.
🔍 Web Search & Image Generation Permissions: Easily disable web search and image generation for specific users, improving workflow governance and security for certain environments.
🗂️ S3 and GCS Storage Provider Support: Scaled deployments now benefit from expanded storage options with Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage seamlessly integrated as providers.
🎨 Enhanced Model Management: Reintroduced the ability to download and delete models directly in the admin models settings page to minimize user confusion and aid efficient model management.
🔗 Improved Connection Handling: Enhanced backend to smoothly handle multiple identical base URLs, allowing more flexible multi-instance configurations with fewer hiccups.
✨ General UI/UX Refinements: Numerous tweaks across the WebUI make navigation and usability even more user-friendly and intuitive.
🌍 Translation Enhancements: Various translation updates ensure smoother and more polished interactions for international users.

Fixed

⚡ MPS Functionality for Mac Users: Fixed MPS support, ensuring smooth performance and compatibility for Mac users leveraging MPS.
📡 Ollama Connection Management: Resolved the issue where deleting all Ollama connections prevented adding new ones.

Changed

⚙️ General Stability Refac: Backend refactoring delivers a more stable, robust platform.
🖥️ Desktop App Preparations: Ongoing work to support the upcoming Open WebUI desktop app. Follow our progress and updates here: https://github.com/open-webui/desktop
ChromaDB version update: chromadb has been updated to 0.6.2