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open-webui 0.6.3

[0.6.3] - 2025-04-12

Added

  • 🧪 Auto-Artifact Detection Toggle: Automatically detects artifacts in results—but now you can disable this behavior under advanced settings for full control.
  • 🖼️ Widescreen Mode for Shared Chats: Shared link conversations now support widescreen layouts—perfect for presentations or easier review across wider displays.
  • 🔁 Reindex Knowledge Files on Demand: Admins can now trigger reindexing of all knowledge files after changing embeddings—ensuring immediate alignment with new models for optimal RAG performance.
  • 📄 OpenAPI YAML Format Support: External tools can now use YAML-format OpenAPI specs—making integration simpler for developers familiar with YAML-based configurations.
  • 💬 Message Content Copy Behavior: Copy action now excludes 'details' tags—streamlining clipboard content when sharing or pasting summaries elsewhere.
  • 🧭 Sougou Web Search Integration: New search engine option added—enhancing global relevance and diversity of search sources for multilingual users.
  • 🧰 Frontend Web Loader Engine Configuration: Admins can now set preferred web loader engine for RAG workflows directly from the frontend—offering more control across setups.
  • 👥 Multi-Model Chat Permission Control: Admins can manage access to multi-model chats per user group—allowing tighter governance in team environments.
  • 🧱 Persistent Configuration Can Be Disabled: New environment variable lets advanced users and hosts turn off persistent configs—ideal for volatile or stateless deployments.
  • 🧠 Elixir Code Highlighting Support: Elixir syntax is now beautifully rendered in code blocks—perfect for developers using this language in AI or automation projects.
  • 🌐 PWA External Manifest URL Support: You can now define an external manifest.json—integrate Open WebUI seamlessly in managed or proxy-based PWA environments like Cloudflare Zero Trust.
  • 🧪 Azure AI Speech-to-Text Provider Integration: Easily transcribe large audio files (up to 200MB) with high accuracy using Microsoft's Azure STT—fully configurable in Audio Settings.
  • 🔏 PKCE (Code Challenge Method) Support for OIDC: Enhance your OIDC login security with Proof Key for Code Exchange—ideal for zero-trust and native client apps.
  • ✨ General UI/UX Enhancements: Numerous refinements across layout, styling, and tool interactions—reducing visual noise and improving overall usability across key workflows.
  • 🌍 Translation Updates Across Multiple Languages: Refined Catalan, Russian, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Hungarian, and Spanish translations for clearer navigation and instructions globally.

Fixed

  • 💥 Chat Completion Error with Missing Models Resolved: Fixed internal server error when referencing a model that doesn’t exist—ensuring graceful fallback and clear error guidance.
  • 🔧 Correct Knowledge Base Citations Restored: Citations generated by RAG workflows now show accurate references—ensuring verifiability in outputs from sourced content.
  • 🎙️ Broken OGG/WebM Audio Upload Handling for OpenAI Fixed: Uploading OGG or WebM files now converts properly to WAV before transcription—restoring accurate AI speech recognition workflows.
  • 🔐 Tool Server 'Session' Authentication Restored: Previously broken session auth on external tool servers is now fully functional—ensuring secure and seamless access to connected tools.
  • 🌐 Folder-Based Chat Rename Now Updates Correctly: Renaming chats in folders now reflects instantly everywhere—improving chat organization and clarity.
  • 📜 KaTeX Overflow Displays Fixed: Math expressions now stay neatly within message bounds—preserving layout consistency even with long formulas.
  • 🚫 Stopping Ongoing Chat Fixed: You can now return to an active (ongoing) chat and stop generation at any time—ensuring full control over sessions.
  • 🔧 TOOL_SERVERS / TOOL_SERVER_CONNECTIONS Indexing Issue Fixed: Fixed a mismatch between tool lists and their access paths—restoring full function and preventing confusion in tool management.
  • 🔐 LDAP Login Handles Multiple Emails: When LDAP returns multiple email attributes, the first valid one is now used—ensuring login success and account consistency.
  • 🧩 Model Visibility Toggle Fix: Toggling model visibility now works even for untouched models—letting admins smoothly manage user access across base models.
  • ⚙️ Cross-Origin manifest.json Now Loads Properly: Compatibility issues with Cloudflare Zero Trust (and others) resolved, allowing manifest.json to load behind authenticated proxies.

Changed

  • 🔒 Default Access Scopes Set to Private for All Resources: Models, tools, and knowledge are now private by default when created—ensuring better baseline security and visibility controls.
  • 🧱 General Backend Refactoring for Stability: Numerous invisible improvements enhance backend scalability, security, and maintainability—powering upcoming features with a stronger foundation.
  • 🧩 Stable Dependency Upgrades: Updated key platform libraries—Chromadb (0.6.3), pgvector (0.4.0), Azure Identity (1.21.0), and Youtube Transcript API (1.0.3)—for improved compatibility, functionality, and security.