Open WebUI v0.3.24 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

## [0.3.24] - 2024-09-24 ### Added - **🚀 Rendering Optimization**: Significantly improved message rendering performance, enhancing user experience and webui responsiveness. - **💖 Favorite Response Feature in Chat Overview**: Users can now mark responses as favorite directly from the chat overview, enhancing ease of retrieval and organization of preferred responses. - **💬 Create Message Pairs with Shortcut**: Implemented creation of new message pairs using Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter, making conversation editing faster and more intuitive. - **🌍 Expanded User Prompt Variables**: Added weekday, timezone, and language information variables to user prompts to match system prompt variables. - **🎵 Enhanced Audio Support**: Now includes support for 'audio/x-m4a' files, broadening compatibility with audio content within the platform. - **🔏 Model URL Search Parameter**: Added an ability to select a model directly via URL parameters, streamlining navigation and model access. - **📄 Enhanced PDF Citations**: PDF citations now open at the associated page, streamlining reference checks and document handling. - **🔧Use of Redis in Sockets**: Enhanced socket implementation to fully support Redis, enabling effective stateless instances suitable for scalable load balancing. - **🌍 Stream Individual Model Responses**: Allows specific models to have individualized streaming settings, enhancing performance and customization. - **🕒 Display Model Hash and Last Modified Timestamp for Ollama Models**: Provides critical model details directly in the Models workspace for enhanced tracking. - **❗ Update Info Notification for Admins**: Ensures administrators receive immediate updates upon login, keeping them informed of the latest changes and system statuses. ### Fixed - **🗑️ Temporary File Handling On Windows**: Fixed an issue causing errors when accessing a temporary file being used by another process, Tools & Functions should now work as intended. - **🔓 Authentication Toggle Issue**: Resolved the malfunction where setting 'WEBUI_AUTH=False' did not appropriately disable authentication, ensuring that user experience and system security settings function as configured. - **🔧 Save As Copy Issue for Many Model Chats**: Resolved an error preventing users from save messages as copies in many model chats. - **🔒 Sidebar Closure on Mobile**: Resolved an issue where the mobile sidebar remained open after menu engagement, improving user interface responsivity and comfort. - **🛡️ Tooltip XSS Vulnerability**: Resolved a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue within tooltips, ensuring enhanced security and data integrity during user interactions. ### Changed - **↩️ Deprecated Interface Stream Response Settings**: Moved to advanced parameters to streamline interface settings and enhance user clarity. - **⚙️ Renamed 'speedRate' to 'playbackRate'**: Standardizes terminology, improving usability and understanding in media settings. 👏 Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible: @JamesClarke7283, @jannikstdl, @EtiennePerot, @sebdanielsson, @cevheri, @kivvi3412, @Fusseldieb, @microdev1 🚀 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, @calabresefrj, @mushmax, @rndmcnlly, @HuaMedicineLLM, @GenieDev101, @PortlandKyGuy