Open WebUI v0.3.17 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

## [0.3.17] - 2024-09-04 ### Added - **🔄 Import/Export Configuration**: Users can now import and export webui configurations from admin settings > Database, simplifying setup replication across systems. - **🌍 Web Search via URL Parameter**: Added support for activating web search directly through URL by setting 'web-search=true'. - **🌐 SearchApi Integration**: Added support for SearchApi as an alternative web search provider, enhancing search capabilities within the platform. - **🔍 Literal Type Support in Tools**: Tools now support the Literal type. - **🌍 Updated Translations**: Improved translations for Chinese, Ukrainian, and Catalan. ### Fixed - **🔧 Pip Install Issue**: Resolved the issue where pip install failed due to missing 'alembic.ini', ensuring smoother installation processes. - **🌃 Automatic Theme Update**: Fixed an issue where the color theme did not update dynamically with system changes. - **🛠️ User Agent in ComfyUI**: Added default headers in ComfyUI to fix access issues, improving reliability in network communications. - **🔄 Missing Chat Completion Response Headers**: Ensured proper return of proxied response headers during chat completion, improving API reliability. - **🔗 Websocket Connection Prioritization**: Modified socket.io configuration to prefer websockets and more reliably fallback to polling, enhancing connection stability. - **🎭 Accessibility Enhancements**: Added missing ARIA labels for buttons, improving accessibility for visually impaired users. - **⚖️ Advanced Parameter**: Fixed an issue ensuring that advanced parameters are correctly applied in all scenarios, ensuring consistent behavior of user-defined settings. ### Changed - **🔁 Namespace Reorganization**: Reorganized all Python files under the 'open_webui' namespace to streamline the project structure and improve maintainability. Tools and functions importing from 'utils' should now use 'open_webui.utils'. - **🚧 Dependency Updates**: Updated several backend dependencies like 'aiohttp', 'authlib', 'duckduckgo-search', 'flask-cors', and 'langchain' to their latest versions, enhancing performance and security. 👏 Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible: @Peter-De-Ath, @daniel-code, @sebdanielsson, @pascallim, @dependabot[bot], @cheahjs, @KarlLee830, @aleixdorca, @raju249, @OriginalSimon 🚀 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, @lukepiette, @arcee-ai, @roosi-gmbh, @Trabing, @Razgaleh, @calabresefrj, @mushmax, @rndmcnlly, @GenieDev101, @PortlandKyGuy