Open WebUI v0.3.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 6 ⚡ Improvements 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 3

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Open WebUI v0.3.8. Source highlight: [0.3.8] - 2024-07-09

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

**💬 Chat Controls**: Easily adjust parameters for each chat session, offering more precise control over your interactions.
**📌 Pinned Chats**: Support for pinned chats, allowing you to keep important conversations easily accessible.
**📄 Apache Tika Integration**: Added support for using Apache Tika as a document loader, enhancing document processing capabilities.
**🛠️ Custom Environment for OpenID Claims**: Allows setting custom claims for OpenID, providing more flexibility in user authentication.
**🔧 Enhanced Tools & Functions API**: Introduced 'event_emitter' and 'event_call', now you can also add citations for better documentation and tracking. Detailed documentation will be provided on our documentation website.
**↔️ Sideways Scrolling in Settings**: Settings tabs container now supports horizontal scrolling for easier navigation.

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)

**🗃️ Database Backend**: Switched from Peewee to SQLAlchemy for improved concurrency support, enhancing database performance.
**🔄 Font Change for Windows**: Replaced Arimo with Inter font for Windows users, improving readability.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)

**⏰ OpenAI Streaming Timeout**: Resolved issues with OpenAI streaming response using the 'AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' setting, ensuring reliable performance.
**💡 User Valves**: Fixed malfunctioning user valves, ensuring proper functionality.
**🔄 Collapsible Components**: Addressed issues with collapsible components not working, restoring expected behavior.

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## [0.3.8] - 2024-07-09 ### Added - **💬 Chat Controls**: Easily adjust parameters for each chat session, offering more precise control over your interactions. - **📌 Pinned Chats**: Support for pinned chats, allowing you to keep important conversations easily accessible. - **📄 Apache Tika Integration**: Added support for using Apache Tika as a document loader, enhancing document processing capabilities. - **🛠️ Custom Environment for OpenID Claims**: Allows setting custom claims for OpenID, providing more flexibility in user authentication. - **🔧 Enhanced Tools & Functions API**: Introduced 'event_emitter' and 'event_call', now you can also add citations for better documentation and tracking. Detailed documentation will be provided on our documentation website. - **↔️ Sideways Scrolling in Settings**: Settings tabs container now supports horizontal scrolling for easier navigation. - **🌑 Darker OLED Theme**: Includes a new, darker OLED theme and improved styling for the light theme, enhancing visual appeal. - **🌐 Language Updates**: Updated translations for Indonesian, German, French, and Catalan languages, expanding accessibility. ### Fixed - **⏰ OpenAI Streaming Timeout**: Resolved issues with OpenAI streaming response using the 'AIOHTTP_CLIENT_TIMEOUT' setting, ensuring reliable performance. - **💡 User Valves**: Fixed malfunctioning user valves, ensuring proper functionality. - **🔄 Collapsible Components**: Addressed issues with collapsible components not working, restoring expected behavior. ### Changed - **🗃️ Database Backend**: Switched from Peewee to SQLAlchemy for improved concurrency support, enhancing database performance. - **⬆️ ChromaDB Update**: Upgraded to version 0.5.3. Ensure your remote ChromaDB instance matches this version. - **🔤 Primary Font Styling**: Updated primary font to Archivo for better visual consistency. - **🔄 Font Change for Windows**: Replaced Arimo with Inter font for Windows users, improving readability. - **🚀 Lazy Loading**: Implemented lazy loading for 'faster_whisper' and 'sentence_transformers' to reduce startup memory usage. - **📋 Task Generation Payload**: Task generations now include only the "task" field in the body instead of "title". 👏 Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible: @bannert1337, @Peter-De-Ath, @moblangeois, @robertpiosik, @nickovs, @cheahjs, @ricky-davis, @fishhf, @KarlLee830, @leobenkel, @wanderingmeow, @michaelpoluektov, @que-nguyen, @jonathan-rohde, @Naufal05R

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