Open WebUI 0.11.4 release notes, 21 Sep 2026

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 second copy of Python, two sets of fonts nothing ever loaded, packages nothing imports, or the tool that installed them, taking about 170 MB off a standard build. #29731, #29723, #29725, #29726, #29728, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
🧑‍💻 Skills from a terminal. Skills a connected terminal server offers now sit beside workspace skills everywhere skills are picked — the "$" and "/" menus, the integrations menu and the skills panel, each marked Terminal — and are used the same way: picking one puts its instructions, its folder and the files it ships with in front of the model, and a model that was only told a skill exists can open it itself. They follow whichever terminal is selected and clear when that changes. Commit
📔 Terminal instructions file. A model working with a terminal is now handed the AGENTS.md sitting in that terminal's home directory, read afresh at the start of every turn, so the instructions you keep beside your work reach the model without being pasted in. Commit, Commit
📇 Automatic skill discovery. Every skill you can reach is now listed to the model by name and description, and the full text of one is loaded only when it decides to use it; before, a skill you had not selected in the message box was invisible to it, and this applies to models with built-in tools on. Commit
🌄 Model background images. A workspace model can now carry a background image, uploaded in its editor and drawn behind the chat whenever that model is selected, sitting below a folder's own background and above your personal one, and it travels with the model through export and import. Commit
📓 Skill creation from a chat. Typing "/skills:create" in a chat that already has content, with a terminal selected, turns the workflow you just went through into a reusable skill written to ".agents/skills" under that terminal's root working directory rather than whatever folder the shell happens to sit in, and authored to Open WebUI's skill standards. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
🖥️ Terminal tabs per command. The terminal pane now carries a tab for each command a model is running alongside your own shell, so you can watch them as they go, move between them and take the shell yourself, each tab opening with the command that produced it. Opening the pane puts you in a tab, starting your shell where nothing else is running, and closing the last tab folds the pane away again. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
📂 Folder uploads to terminals. The file browser beside a terminal takes a folder now, dropped onto it or picked from the Upload Folder entry in its menus, and rebuilds what is inside it as it goes, subfolders and all, where before a drop uploaded only the files sitting loose at the top. Commit, Commit, Commit
⚖️ Side-by-side file comparison. Picking two files in the file browser lights up a Compare button that lays them side by side or one above the other, numbering the lines, marking what was added and removed down to the part of the line that changed, counting both, and letting you swap which is which or leave whitespace out of it, a choice it remembers; a terminal too old to offer the comparison says so rather than failing quietly. Commit, Commit
🌐 Suggested prompts in your language. A fresh install now offers its suggested starter prompts in the language the interface is set to, rather than the same four in English for everyone, and the model defaults panel carries a way back to those defaults once its own suggestions have been edited. Commit, Commit
📏 Exa result length cap. Web search through Exa can be held to a number of characters per result, set beside its key in the admin web search settings or as "EXA_MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH". Commit
🇪🇺 European web search option. Staan can now be picked as the web search provider, giving deployments that need search inside the EU an option they do not have to host themselves, configured from the admin web search settings or through "STAAN_API_KEY", "STAAN_MARKET" and "STAAN_MAX_SNIPPETS". #30138, #26006, #30303, #30301
🗣️ Per-language names and descriptions. A model, tool, skill, function, banner or arena entry can now hold its name, description, starter prompts and valve labels once per language, written in a searchable table in its own editor or brought in as a JSON file, which is refused where a translation drops one of the placeholders the original fills in. The interface shows the wording for the language it is set to, and falls back to the plain text where that language has none. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
✏️ Interface text you can reword. An administrator can now replace the interface's own wording language by language from a panel in the admin settings, with a replacement refused where it drops one of the placeholders the original fills in. Commit
🔓 Turning off the sign-in form. The box asking for an email address and a password can now be taken off the sign-in page from the authentication settings, where until now it could only be set before the server started, leaving single sign-on or a directory to sign people in. Commit
🏷️ Custom file metadata. Metadata attached to an uploaded file now travels with the pieces that file is split into and arrives with the retrieved sources, the oversized and internal fields left out, and an operator can name in "RAG_SOURCE_METADATA_KEYS" which of those fields the model itself gets to see alongside the text. #29499, #29486, Commit, #29502, #29696
🗑️ Quick delete shortcut. Holding Shift over a note in the list or grid, or over a row on the automations page, turns its trailing controls into a delete button, removing the entry in one click rather than the three the menu and its confirmation ask for. #29635, #29633, #29640, #29637
🔀 Diffs are drawn as diffs. A diff or patch block in a reply is now laid out as one, with the file and hunk headings, the old and new line numbers, and the added and removed lines picked out down to the part of the line that changed, and a button to switch to the plain text and back. Commit
✒️ A formatting switch for notes. A note you can edit carries a Formatting switch in its menu: turned off, Markdown you type or paste stays as the characters you wrote, a paste keeps its plain text, and a web address is left as text, while formatting already in the note is untouched. Commit
🎛️ Admin model list filters. The models page in the admin settings can now be narrowed to the base models a connection offers or to the ones built in the workspace, alongside the filters for enabled, disabled, visible and hidden. Commit
🔍 Settings search by name. The search box in settings now matches each setting's own name and description rather than a keyword list kept per page, in whichever language you are using and regardless of accents, it leaves out anything your permissions do not let you change, and opening a result no longer clears what you typed. Commit, Commit, Commit
🆘 A model for every chat. Opening a conversation whose model has since been retired no longer leaves it stranded with nothing selected; it falls back to your default model, then the configured default, then the first one available, and a chat that still has a live model keeps it. #29757
⚡ Non-blocking search. Searching the text of chats and knowledge, and the grep a model runs over a knowledge base, now run beside the rest of the server rather than in front of it, so a long search no longer keeps other requests waiting. #29621, Commit
✴️ Lighter shared note editing. Notes written by several people at once no longer echo every keystroke back to the server once per watcher; the traffic between editors falls by half with two of them and keeps falling as more join, so shared notes stay smooth as the room grows. #28185
🔢 Sorted knowledge listings. The "ls", "tree" and "find" commands a model runs over a knowledge base now sort by name and take "-t", "-S" and "-r" for newest first, largest first and reversed. #29840
🪪 Authentication type header. A request to an OpenAI or Ollama connection now carries "X-OpenWebUI-Auth-Type", saying whether the person behind it signed in through the browser or called with an API key; its name is set with "FORWARD_USER_INFO_HEADER_AUTH_TYPE" and "{{AUTH_TYPE}}" works in custom headers. Commit
💡 Follow-up ghost text. Once a reply has finished, the first of the follow-up questions it suggests now sits greyed inside the empty message box as well as under the reply: Tab writes it out, and typing anything of your own clears it away. Commit
🪵 Model refusal logging. A request turned away with "Model not found" now writes a warning naming the account, the model and why it was refused, while the message the caller sees stays as vague as before. Commit
🤲 Cheaper chat requests behind Redis. Where several servers share their websocket traffic through Redis, a chat request no longer pulls the whole shared model list from Redis to ask about a couple of models; each worker keeps its own copy and refetches only when the list actually changed, so the cost stops growing with the number of models configured. #28176, #28167
💽 Long conversations stream cheaper. Writing or reading a single message no longer loads, checks and rewrites the entire conversation to change a few hundred bytes, so streaming into a long chat stops getting more expensive as it grows, and the whole round trip a message event costs falls to a fraction on conversations of thousands of messages. #28184, #28169
🧱 In-place streaming appends. Streamed replies can be assembled with CPython's in-place string append, turned on with "ENABLE_CHAT_RESPONSE_STREAM_INPLACE_APPEND" and left off by default while it is rolled out gradually. Commit, Commit, #30066
📘 Direct connection guidance. The connections and integrations pages in the personal settings now say plainly that a direct connection leans on your browser session to keep requests running, which suits testing and temporary use rather than everyday work. Commit, Commit
🔄 General improvements. Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
🌐 Translation updates. Translations for Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic, Arabic (Bahrain), Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali, Tibetan, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Czech, Danish, Basque, Croatian, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Croatian, Kabyle, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian and Turkmen were enhanced and expanded.

Fixed

🛡️ Security Advisory: This release includes security and access-control fixes. We recommend updating production deployments at your earliest convenience. Not all security fixes in this version may be enumerated in the fixed section. Some may be withheld for a short time to give administrators time to upgrade. Advisories
🔑 Tokens stay out of logs. A failure part way through signing in with an identity provider no longer writes the credentials it was handed into the application log, recording the provider and the error it reported instead. #29709
🔐 Sign-in role mapping. Roles sent by an identity provider were in some setups not applied, leaving an account at the default role, and a sign-in whose roles cannot be read is now refused rather than let through. Commit
🚫 Blocked sign-in groups saved. Comma-separated group names typed into the blocked groups field now take effect once saved, where the save stored the text as written and the sign-in check then read it as nothing; a group name carrying a comma of its own survives a save too. Commit
🚪 Signing out ends the session. Signing out or having every token revoked left any live connection that account already had in place, and those are now cut at the same moment; a token already revoked can no longer be replayed to cut someone else's newer session. Commit
🛡 Diagrams and SVG stay on this origin. Mermaid diagrams and SVG previews, attached or uploaded, no longer follow references pointing at another origin, a picture, style or configuration line among them, and a diagram that reaches outside is refused with an error; a file whose drawing leans on an external sprite now shows that part blank. #30271
📲 Terminal sessions follow access changes. A terminal connection now re-checks your access to it every ten seconds for as long as it stays open, so removing someone's permission or deactivating their account ends their live terminal on the next check, on every worker and not only the one they signed in through. Commit, Commit
🔒 Connection model listing access. The endpoints that list the models on a single Ollama or OpenAI connection could be reached by a signed-in account of any role, and now check the caller's role. #29619
🔏 Knowledge file access. A file's access through a knowledge base now follows its actual attachment alone, rather than also a collection name left behind on the file record. #29937
🌳 Knowledge directories stay inside their base. A directory id supplied to the knowledge file routes is now refused where it belongs to a different knowledge base, where a caller-supplied id could reach into a directory tree outside the one being addressed. Commit, #29887
🍪 Cookie forwarding scope. A connection authenticating as the signed-in person is handed this instance's browser cookies only where its new Forward cookies switch is on, which an instance relying on it has to turn on after upgrading. Commit, Commit, Commit
🗝️ Revocation list fallback. Where the revocation list is kept in Redis and Redis cannot be reached, a token is now accepted rather than the request failing, so signing out may not take effect until Redis is back. Commit, Commit
🗒 Home page chat drafts. A message typed into a chat started from the home page now comes back after a reload, text, uploads and all, where the draft was stored under a key the page never read again. #29762, #29760
🏞️ S3-hosted chat images. A chat image whose host echoes a Content-Encoding nothing asked for, an S3 or MinIO object uploaded with that metadata among them, no longer breaks the reply it sits in; it is sent as its link the way an unreachable image already was. #29623
🪆 Branch descent guard. Stepping between reply branches walked a chat's children without tracking where it had already been, so a history that pointed back at itself spun forever and locked the tab, and a child id with no message behind it threw; every one of the eleven places that walk now shares a single guarded helper. #30070
🗒️ Note save on exit. A note's title and its attachments save a moment after they change, and leaving the note inside that moment dropped the save, so the notes list kept showing the old title until the page was reloaded; the pending save now finishes before the next page opens. #29745, #29744
📷 Attachments sent without text. Sending an image or a file with nothing typed to a model that has skills attached replaced the empty message with the list of skill names, so the model answered with its own catalogue instead of looking at what you sent. #30045, #30040
🖍️ SVG attachments read as text. An SVG attached to a chat went up as a picture and came back rejected by every model that tried to decode it, and is now read as its source text instead, which needs a model that accepts file uploads. #30102, #30100
🩹 Notes survive a small edit. Asked to add a section or change a few lines, a model would send the whole note back and lose the rest of it with nothing to undo, because the editing tool never said when to edit a range instead; it now spells out the range rules the handler already enforced. #30048
📋 Note paste placement. A plain paste replaced more of the note than was selected, and a paste into a code block broke out of the block instead of going inside it; both now land exactly where they were dropped. Commit
🧿 Insert into note on read-only notes. The Insert into note action no longer appears on a note you may only read, which offered it where it could not land. #30223, #30174
🤝 Note sharing survives a save. Saving a note you had been given access to took that sharing away, so the note went private and everyone else lost it. #30175
🌍 Collaborative link handling. In a note two people are writing at once, a plain web address arriving from the other editor was turned into a link on your screen but not on theirs; it is now left as written. Commit
📑 Tika 4 document formatting. Where document extraction runs against a Tika server on version 4, the text now comes back as Markdown rather than a flat run of characters, so headings, lists and tables survive into what the model reads. Commit
⏳ Session expiry accuracy. A session with an identity provider now expires with the token it actually calls with, rather than whichever of its two tokens ran out first, which renewed it early and dropped it whenever that failed. Commit
🧩 Tool steps in finished replies. A reply that called tools showed each step as it ran, then lost them the moment the reply completed, because the provider's closing message replaced everything on screen rather than joining it; the closing message is now merged into what is already there, and a tool call is no longer mistaken for its own result. Commit, Commit
🧭 Streamed replies follow along. A reply arriving over the response events now keeps the view at the bottom as it is written, as replies on the older path already did, unless you have scrolled up yourself. Commit, Commit
🚿 Tool results arrive when the tools are done. The results of a model's tool calls now reach the reply as soon as the round that produced them finishes, instead of being held back with the rest of the streaming until the throttle let them through, and a channel reply or a continuation no longer carries the picture data a tool handed the model. Commit
🧗 Tagged blocks while streaming. A reply using reasoning, solution or code interpreter tags briefly showed the raw tag text in the message as it arrived, because the chunk carrying it reached the browser before the cleaned output did; the cleaned output is now sent the moment a tag is taken out, and the code an interpreter block writes fills that block rather than the message body. Commit
📗 Excel in the code interpreter. Reading or writing a spreadsheet in code the browser runs failed outright because the library that handles them never reached the browser, and it is now shipped alongside the rest. #30140, #30130
📀 Bundled charts and formatting. Drawing a chart with seaborn in code the browser runs fetched the library over the internet at that moment rather than taking it from what ships, and the code editor's Format button failed outright for anyone who is not an administrator; both now work from what comes with the application, offline included. #30148, #30145
🙋 Typed answer submission. In the card a model puts up to ask you a question, choosing one of its options on the last question sends your answers straight away, but typing your own into the Other box left Submit answers greyed out with no way to send it, and it now turns on as soon as that box has text. #29494, #29311
🥇 A truthful Recommended badge. The card a model puts up to ask you a question marks its first option Recommended, but nothing told the model that, so the badge fell on whichever option happened to be listed first; models are now asked to put the option they recommend there. #30196, #30195
🎚️ Partial settings permissions. An account barred from changing the interface settings can now save its system prompt, notifications, audio, keyboard shortcuts and pinned models, which were refused along with them. Commit
🎧 Speech file types kept. Saving the audio settings emptied the list of file types accepted for speech recognition, so transcription then turned away the recordings it had taken before. #30208
🚻 Group picker without permission. The picker for sharing a chat, a note or a knowledge base with a group was offered to accounts not allowed to share with groups, and is now hidden from them. #30189
🗜️ Per-field settings saves. Only the settings actually changed are now stored, rather than the whole object, so another tab's older copy no longer overwrites them and a default an administrator changes still reaches everyone, and pinning a model, reordering the list or picking a default from outside the settings window now saves the same way. Commit, #30183
⚠️ Failed settings feedback. Settings that could not be saved were shown as saved anyway until the page was reloaded, because the interface stored them locally without waiting on the server; a failure now raises an error and leaves the panel as it was. Commit
🔠 Menu text scaling. The entries in the menus that drop down across the interface now scale with the rest of it, rather than staying at a fixed size while the menu around them grew. #29493, #29488
🪞 Account menu highlighting. An account menu entry carrying a pin button beside it now lights up across the whole row in the shared colour, and a long label no longer pushes the pin out of the menu. Commit
🔲 Shift-click file selection. Shift-clicking a file in the terminal's file browser now adds that range to what is already selected, and clicking through a selected file removes its range. Commit, Commit, Commit
🛟 Attachment name collisions. Attaching a file to a message on an instance that puts attachments in a terminal's working directory replaced whatever file of that name was sitting there; the upload now takes the next free name, "report (1).pdf" beside "report.pdf", and the attachment shows the name it was saved under, though two uploads arriving at the same moment from different browsers can still land on the same name. Commit
📛 Failed upload feedback. A file that could not be written to the terminal now says so, rather than passing in silence while the browser refreshed as though it had arrived. Commit, Commit, Commit
☑️ Unchecked checkbox defaults. A prompt variable written as a checkbox with a default of false opened the form already ticked, as did False, "false", 0 and "0", because any non-empty default counted as ticked; it is now ticked only where the value really is true. #30037, #30036
🎯 Prefilled question timing. Opening a chat from a link holding a question sent it before the box had it, so a question naming a variable went off with the variable unfilled; the send now waits for the text to be in place and filled in. Commit, Commit
📜 Task list height. The list of steps a model works through ran as long as it needed and pushed the rest of the reply down the page; it now stops at a quarter of the window's height and scrolls within itself. Commit
⎋ Escape key targeting. The shortcut for closing a dialog always shut the settings window, whichever dialog was actually in front, so a dialog opened from within settings took both away at once; each dialog now answers the shortcut for itself, as it already did for the escape key. #29830, #29817
🎹 Message pair shortcut. The shortcut that adds an empty question and answer to a chat also sent whatever was typed in the message box, so the pair arrived alongside a message you had not meant to send yet. #30167
🥁 Collapsing the task list. Folding away the list of tasks under a reply also sent whatever you had typed in the message box. #30202
🕰️ Temporary chat links. A link carrying the temporary chat marker opened an ordinary chat, because the marker was written into the address but never read back when the page loaded, and such a link now opens the temporary chat it promises. Commit
⌨️ Recording a new shortcut. Pressing a key combination to record it as a shortcut also ran whatever that combination was already bound to, so setting one up did the thing you were trying to rebind. #30160
🔃 Stale tab reload. A tab still running the previous build met an error page after the server was updated instead of loading the new one, because every image built from Docker carried the same version stamp; the stamp now follows the build, and a stale tab reloads as it was meant to. #29832,

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