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open-webui 0.6.8

[0.6.8] - 2025-05-10

Added

  • 🏆 External Reranker Support for Knowledge Base Search: Supercharge your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows with the new External Reranker integration; easily plug in advanced reranking services via the UI to deliver sharper and more relevant search results, accelerating research and insight discovery.
  • 📤 Unstylized PDF Export Option (Reduced File Size): When exporting chat transcripts or documents, you can now choose an unstylized PDF export for snappier downloads, minimal file size, and clean data archiving—perfect for large-scale storage or sharing.
  • 📝 Vazirmatn Font for Persian & Arabic: Arabic and Persian users will now see their text beautifully rendered with the specialized Vazirmatn font for an improved localized reading experience.
  • 🏷️ SharePoint Tenant ID Support for OneDrive: You can now specify a SharePoint tenant ID in OneDrive settings for seamless authentication and granular enterprise integration.
  • 👤 Refresh OAuth Profile Picture: Your OAuth profile picture now updates in real-time, ensuring your presence and avatar always match your latest identity across integrated platforms.
  • 🔧 Milvus Configuration Improvements: Configure index and metric types for Milvus directly within settings; take full control of your vector database for more accurate and robust AI search experiences.
  • 🛡️ S3 Tagging Toggle for Compatibility: Optional S3 tagging via an environment toggle grants full compatibility with all storage backends—including those that don’t support tagging like Cloudflare R2—ensuring error-free attachment and document management.
  • 👨‍🦯 Icon Button Accessibility Improvements: Key interactive icon-buttons now include aria-labels and ARIA descriptions, so screen readers provide precise guidance about what action each button performs for improved accessibility.
  • Enhanced Accessibility with Modal Focus Trap: Modal dialogs and pop-ups now feature a focus trap and improved ARIA roles, ensuring seamless navigation and screen reader support—making the interface friendlier for everyone, including keyboard and assistive tech users.
  • 🏃 Improved Admin User List Loading Indicator: The user list loading experience is now clearer and more responsive in the admin panel.
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Larger Admin User List Page Size: Admins can now manage up to 30 users per page in the admin interface, drastically reducing pagination and making large user teams easier and faster to manage.
  • 🌠 Default Code Interpreter Prompt Clarified: The built-in code interpreter prompt is now more explicit, preventing AI from wrapping code in Markdown blocks when not needed—ensuring properly formatted code runs as intended every time.
  • 🧾 Improved Default Title Generation Prompt Template: Title generation now uses a robust template for reliable JSON output, improving chat organization and searchability.
  • 🔗 Support Jupyter Notebooks with Non-Root Base URLs: Notebook-based code execution now supports non-root deployed Jupyter servers, granting full flexibility for hybrid or multi-user setups.
  • 📰 UI Scrollbar Always Visible for Overflow Tools: When available tools overflow the display, the scrollbar is now always visible and there’s a handy "show all" toggle, making navigation of large toolsets snappier and more intuitive.
  • 🛠️ General Backend Refactoring for Stability: Multiple under-the-hood improvements have been made across backend components, ensuring smoother performance, fewer errors, and a more reliable overall experience for all users.
  • 🚀 Optimized Web Search for Faster Results: Web search speed and performance have been significantly enhanced, delivering answers and sources in record time to accelerate your research-heavy workflows.
  • 💡 More Supported Languages: Expanded language support ensures an even wider range of users can enjoy an intuitive and natural interface in their native tongue.

Fixed

  • 🏃‍♂️ Exhausting Workers in Nginx Reverse Proxy Due to Websocket Fix: Websocket sessions are now fully compatible behind Nginx, eliminating worker exhaustion and restoring 24/7 reliability for real-time chats even in complex deployments.
  • 🎤 Audio Transcription Issue with OpenAI Resolved: OpenAI-based audio transcription now handles WebM and newer formats without error, ensuring seamless voice-to-text workflows every time.
  • 👉 Message Input RTL Issue Fixed: The chat message input now displays correctly for right-to-left languages, creating a flawless typing and reading experience for Arabic, Hebrew, and more.
  • 🀄 Katex: Proper Rendering of Chinese Characters Next to Math: Math formulas now render perfectly even when directly adjacent to Chinese (CJK) characters, improving visual clarity for multilingual teams and cross-language documents.
  • 🔂 Duplicate Web Search URLs Eliminated: Search results now reliably filter out URL duplicates, so your knowledge and search citations are always clean, trimmed, and easy to review.
  • 📄 Markdown Rendering Fixed in Knowledge Bases: Markdown is now displayed correctly within knowledge bases, enabling better formatting and clarity of information-rich files.
  • 🗂️ LDAP Import/Loading Issue Resolved: LDAP user imports process correctly, ensuring smooth onboarding and access without interruption.
  • 🌎 Pinecone Batch Operations and Async Safety: All Pinecone operations (batch insert, upsert, delete) now run efficiently and safely in an async environment, boosting performance and preventing slowdowns in large-scale RAG jobs.