Open WebUI v0.3.14 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

## [0.3.14] - 2024-08-21 ### Added - **🛠️ Custom ComfyUI Workflow**: Deprecating several older environment variables, this enhancement introduces a new, customizable workflow for a more tailored user experience. - **🔀 Merge Responses in Many Model Chat**: Enhances the dialogue by merging responses from multiple models into a single, coherent reply, improving the interaction quality in many model chats. - **✅ Multiple Instances of Same Model in Chats**: Enhanced many model chat to support adding multiple instances of the same model. - **🔧 Quick Actions in Model Workspace**: Enhanced Shift key quick actions for hiding/unhiding and deleting models, facilitating a smoother workflow. - **🗨️ Markdown Rendering in User Messages**: User messages are now rendered in Markdown, enhancing readability and interaction. - **💬 Temporary Chat Feature**: Introduced a temporary chat feature, deprecating the old chat history setting to enhance user interaction flexibility. - **🖋️ User Message Editing**: Enhanced the user chat editing feature to allow saving changes without sending, providing more flexibility in message management. - **🛡️ Security Enhancements**: Various security improvements implemented across the platform to ensure safer user experiences. - **🌍 Updated Translations**: Enhanced translations for Chinese, Ukrainian, and Bahasa Malaysia, improving localization and user comprehension. ### Fixed - **📑 Mermaid Rendering Issue**: Addressed issues with Mermaid chart rendering to ensure clean and clear visual data representation. - **🎭 PWA Icon Maskability**: Fixed the Progressive Web App icon to be maskable, ensuring proper display on various device home screens. - **🔀 Cloned Model Chat Freezing Issue**: Fixed a bug where cloning many model chats would cause freezing, enhancing stability and responsiveness. - **🔍 Generic Error Handling and Refinements**: Various minor fixes and refinements to address previously untracked issues, ensuring smoother operations. ### Changed - **🖼️ Image Generation Refactor**: Overhauled image generation processes for improved efficiency and quality. - **🔨 Refactor Tool and Function Calling**: Refactored tool and function calling mechanisms for improved clarity and maintainability. - **🌐 Backend Library Updates**: Updated critical backend libraries including SQLAlchemy, uvicorn[standard], faster-whisper, bcrypt, and boto3 for enhanced performance and security. ### Removed - **🚫 Deprecated ComfyUI Environment Variables**: Removed several outdated environment variables related to ComfyUI settings, simplifying configuration management. 👏 Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible: @sebdanielsson, @amirsubhi, @nthe, @5E-324, @OriginalSimon, @dependabot[bot], @crizCraig, @michaelpoluektov, @FINNSEEFLY, @KarlLee830, @JohnTheNerd 🚀 We'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our amazing sponsors for their generous support (Note: We've excluded private sponsors from this list. If you'd like to get featured here, feel free to reach out to us!): @digitalbrainowners, @Jkintree2, @lukepiette, @roosi-gmbh, @Trabing, @Razgaleh, @calabresefrj, @mushmax, @rndmcnlly, @GenieDev101, @Lance1101, @awaliuddin, @PortlandKyGuy