Added 📑 Tabbed workspace. The Tabs button at the top of a chat now opens a workspace for files, multiple terminal sessions, artifacts, previews, voice calls and comments. Add tabs from the + menu, drag to reorder them, and create and save new files directly into the selected terminal. Keep the conversation and its working files together while coding, analyzing data or reviewing generated documents…
Added 🧭 Analytics session explorer. Administrators can now open a Sessions tab in Admin Analytics that lists each chat with its tokens, responses, errors and time span, filters them by search, model, token range or sub-agents, and shows a chat's saved replies and tool calls with their timing and outcome, as long as "ENABLE_ADMIN_CHAT_ACCESS" is on. Commit 📑 Pages in notes. Notes can now hold sever…
Added 🎯 Load selected skills on demand. Administrators can turn on "Load selected skills on demand" under Admin Settings > General or set "ENABLE_SKILL_LAZY_LOADING", so skills selected in the chat or attached to a model are only listed for the model to load when it needs them instead of sending their full instructions with every message, while skills mentioned in the message still load right away…
Added 🔐 End-to-end encrypted chats. Direct messages and private group channels can now hold a temporary end-to-end encrypted chat: a member picks Encrypted Chat in the channel menu, the other members see "Encrypted chat in progress" with a Join link, messages of up to 16 KiB are encrypted in the browser with MLS and only passed through the server without being saved, participants can verify each o…
Added 📑 MinerU 4.x servers. The MinerU document engine now works with self-hosted MinerU 4.x servers, where every document failed with a 404 because 4.x removed the old parsing interface; 3.x servers work as before, 4.x servers take a tier (flash, basic, standard or advanced) and enable_ocr in the MinerU parameters while language and model_version stay 3.x only, and images that 4.x returns inside…
Added 🧱 External apps in channels. Administrators can now turn on Apps in Admin Settings > General, or with "ENABLE_APPS", and connect external apps in the new Apps tab of Admin Settings by their HTTPS address, reviewing the permissions each app asks for, such as reading its mentions, reading channel messages or posting messages, and choosing who may use it; channel managers then add an app to a c…
Added ☎️ Realtime voice calls. Administrators can now switch Call mode in the Voice calls section of Audio settings from Standard to Realtime, so Voice mode talks through an OpenAI Realtime voice model (gpt-realtime-2.1-mini with the Marin voice by default) that handles small talk itself and hands real questions and tasks to the chat's selected model, with its conversation history and tools, befor…
Added 📉 Far smaller slim image. A slim build now comes down at around 175 MB, near enough 89% smaller than the last release, the local models, the packages around them and the tools that installed them all gone from it; what that changes about the way an instance behaves is set out under Changed below and in the documentation. Commit, Commit 📦 Smaller standard image. The image no longer carries a…
Added ♿ Accessibility mode reaches the menus. Accessibility mode now marks the menu entry you are pointing at and the model already chosen with a stronger background, across the dropdown menus, their submenus, and the model picker together with its filter and compare controls, so those cues carry the contrast the accessibility guidelines ask for in both themes. Commit, Commit 🔄 General improvement…
Added 🖼️ Richer previews for terminal files. Word documents and slide decks produced in the terminal are now previewed as the finished document rather than an approximation, and every document preview gains a page strip down the side with numbered thumbnails you can click to jump straight to a page, and the notice warning that a preview might differ from the download is gone now that it does not.…
Added 🚦 Human in the loop tool approval. Where an administrator has turned it on, you can switch a conversation from letting tools run freely to being asked first, so a model that wants to use a tool stops and waits for you to allow or deny it, one call at a time in a saved conversation, by button or by keyboard shortcut, with your choice remembered for this conversation and for future ones, switc…
Added 🎨 Redesigned interface. Open WebUI has been visually rebuilt from the ground up. All aspects of the User Interface, from the chat view to the admin panel. Now with a narrower conversation column, lighter typography, tidier spacing, consistent menus and dropdowns, clearly outlined text boxes, and settings rearranged. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Comm…
Added 💭 Streamed reasoning display. Models that emit thinking or reasoning now show that content as it streams, and it renders correctly in the chat overview and in exported conversations. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit 🗂️ Folder uploads to knowledge bases. Dragging a folder into a knowledge base, or syncing one, now recreates its subfolder structure instead of flattening everything into loose fil…
Fixed 🤝 Shared folder read-only chats no longer sign users out. Opening or reading chats from shared folders now keeps the current session active when a resource-level access error is returned, instead of incorrectly showing "Session expired. Please sign in again."
Added 🤝 Share folders with your team. You can now share a folder and the chats inside it with specific users, groups, or everyone, with read or write access; people you share with see shared folders in their sidebar and open the chats in a read-only view when they are not the owner, and administrators control who is allowed to share folders with a new "Folders Sharing" permission that is off by de…
Added 📦 Official knowledge base sync tool. A new companion tool from Open WebUI, oikb, keeps a knowledge base in sync with a local directory, GitHub repo, S3 bucket, Confluence space, or any of more than 40 other sources, uploading only new and changed files using the incremental sync support added in this release. oikb 📂 Smart directory sync for knowledge bases. Local directories can now be synce…
Added 🛡️ Redirect-based SSRF protection. All outbound HTTP requests now block 3xx redirects by default via a new AIOHTTP_CLIENT_ALLOW_REDIRECTS environment variable, preventing redirect-based SSRF where a public URL silently redirects to internal addresses (RFC 1918, loopback, cloud-metadata endpoints). Affected call sites include web fetch, image loading, OAuth discovery, tool server execution, a…
Fixed 📜 Chat scroll position on load. Opening a chat conversation now reliably scrolls to the bottom of the message history, fixing a regression caused by content-visibility: auto where estimated element sizes prevented the initial scroll from reaching the true bottom.
Added 🔇 Voice Mode mute control. Voice Mode now includes a dedicated mute toggle with an "M" shortcut and auto-unmute after assistant playback, so you can prevent accidental interruptions from background noise without leaving the call overlay. Commit, #23832 🚀 Faster prompt list loading. Prompt and prompt-tag pages now load much faster for non-admin users, even with large prompt libraries, because…
Added 🧠 PaddleOCR-vl document extraction. Administrators can now use PaddleOCR-vl as a content extraction engine for document processing, with configurable API URL and token settings in document retrieval configuration. #23945 🔥 Firecrawl v2 API. Firecrawl web loading now uses the v2 API directly with proper retry logic, exponential backoff on rate limits, and configurable timeout handling, improv…
Fixed 🐛 Missing aiosqlite dependency. Fixed a startup crash (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aiosqlite') when installing Open WebUI via pip or uv by adding the missing aiosqlite package to pyproject.toml. The dependency was listed in requirements.txt but not in the published package metadata, so it was not installed automatically. #23916 🐛 Missing asyncpg dependency. Added the missing asyncp…
Caution⚠️ 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 schem…