Impact Score: 5/10
Open WebUI v0.3.5 โ Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Open WebUI v0.3.5. Source highlight: [0.3.5] - 2024-06-16
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **๐ Enhanced Voice Call**: Text-to-speech (TTS) callback now operates in real-time for each sentence, reducing latency by not waiting for full completion.
- **๐ Tap to Interrupt**: During a call, you can now stop the assistant from speaking by simply tapping, instead of using voice. This resolves the issue of the speaker's voice being mistakenly registered as input.
- **๐ Emoji Call**: Toggle this feature on from the Settings > Interface, allowing LLMs to express emotions using emojis during voice calls for a more dynamic interaction.
- **๐ฑ๏ธ Quick Archive/Delete**: Use the Shift key + mouseover on the chat list to swiftly archive or delete items.
- **๐ Markdown Support in Model Descriptions**: You can now format model descriptions with markdown, enabling bold text, links, etc.
- **๐ง Editable Memories**: Adds the capability to modify memories.
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (2)
- **โณ AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT**: Introduced a new environment variable 'AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' for requests to Ollama lasting longer than 5 minutes. Default is 300 seconds; set to blank ('') for no timeout.
- **โ Message Delete Freeze**: Resolved an issue where message deletion would sometimes cause the web UI to freeze.
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## [0.3.5] - 2024-06-16
### Added
- **๐ Enhanced Voice Call**: Text-to-speech (TTS) callback now operates in real-time for each sentence, reducing latency by not waiting for full completion.
- **๐ Tap to Interrupt**: During a call, you can now stop the assistant from speaking by simply tapping, instead of using voice. This resolves the issue of the speaker's voice being mistakenly registered as input.
- **๐ Emoji Call**: Toggle this feature on from the Settings > Interface, allowing LLMs to express emotions using emojis during voice calls for a more dynamic interaction.
- **๐ฑ๏ธ Quick Archive/Delete**: Use the Shift key + mouseover on the chat list to swiftly archive or delete items.
- **๐ Markdown Support in Model Descriptions**: You can now format model descriptions with markdown, enabling bold text, links, etc.
- **๐ง Editable Memories**: Adds the capability to modify memories.
- **๐ Admin Panel Sorting**: Introduces the ability to sort users/chats within the admin panel.
- **๐ Dark Mode for Quick Selectors**: Dark mode now available for chat quick selectors (prompts, models, documents).
- **๐ง Advanced Parameters**: Adds 'num_keep' and 'num_batch' to advanced parameters for customization.
- **๐
Dynamic System Prompts**: New variables '{{CURRENT_DATETIME}}', '{{CURRENT_TIME}}', '{{USER_LOCATION}}' added for system prompts. Ensure '{{USER_LOCATION}}' is toggled on from Settings > Interface.
- **๐ Tavily Web Search**: Includes Tavily as a web search provider option.
- **๐๏ธ Federated Auth Usernames**: Ability to set user names for federated authentication.
- **๐ Auto Clean URLs**: When adding connection URLs, trailing slashes are now automatically removed.
- **๐ Enhanced Translations**: Improved Chinese and Swedish translations.
### Fixed
- **โณ AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT**: Introduced a new environment variable 'AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' for requests to Ollama lasting longer than 5 minutes. Default is 300 seconds; set to blank ('') for no timeout.
- **โ Message Delete Freeze**: Resolved an issue where message deletion would sometimes cause the web UI to freeze.
๐ Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible:
@ricky-davis, @KarlLee830, @theasp, @Yash-1511, @PierreMesure, @Peter-De-Ath, @robbie-cahill, @JohnTheNerd, @sammcj, @sample