Open WebUI v0.5.5 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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✨ Features 6 🔧 Bug Fixes 2

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Open WebUI v0.5.5. Source highlight: [0.5.5] - 2025-01-22

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

**🤔 Native 'Think' Tag Support**: Introduced the new 'think' tag support that visually displays how long the model is thinking, omitting the reasoning content itself until the next turn. Ideal for creating a more streamlined and focused interaction experience.
**🖼️ Toggle Image Generation On/Off**: In the chat input menu, you can now easily toggle image generation before initiating chats, providing greater control and flexibility to suit your needs.
**🔒 Chat Controls Permissions**: Admins can now disable chat controls access for users, offering tighter management and customization over user interactions.
**🔍 Web Search & Image Generation Permissions**: Easily disable web search and image generation for specific users, improving workflow governance and security for certain environments.
**🗂️ S3 and GCS Storage Provider Support**: Scaled deployments now benefit from expanded storage options with Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage seamlessly integrated as providers.
**🎨 Enhanced Model Management**: Reintroduced the ability to download and delete models directly in the admin models settings page to minimize user confusion and aid efficient model management.

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)

**⚡ MPS Functionality for Mac Users**: Fixed MPS support, ensuring smooth performance and compatibility for Mac users leveraging MPS.
**📡 Ollama Connection Management**: Resolved the issue where deleting all Ollama connections prevented adding new ones.

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## [0.5.5] - 2025-01-22 ### Added - **🤔 Native 'Think' Tag Support**: Introduced the new 'think' tag support that visually displays how long the model is thinking, omitting the reasoning content itself until the next turn. Ideal for creating a more streamlined and focused interaction experience. - **🖼️ Toggle Image Generation On/Off**: In the chat input menu, you can now easily toggle image generation before initiating chats, providing greater control and flexibility to suit your needs. - **🔒 Chat Controls Permissions**: Admins can now disable chat controls access for users, offering tighter management and customization over user interactions. - **🔍 Web Search & Image Generation Permissions**: Easily disable web search and image generation for specific users, improving workflow governance and security for certain environments. - **🗂️ S3 and GCS Storage Provider Support**: Scaled deployments now benefit from expanded storage options with Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage seamlessly integrated as providers. - **🎨 Enhanced Model Management**: Reintroduced the ability to download and delete models directly in the admin models settings page to minimize user confusion and aid efficient model management. - **🔗 Improved Connection Handling**: Enhanced backend to smoothly handle multiple identical base URLs, allowing more flexible multi-instance configurations with fewer hiccups. - **✨ General UI/UX Refinements**: Numerous tweaks across the WebUI make navigation and usability even more user-friendly and intuitive. - **🌍 Translation Enhancements**: Various translation updates ensure smoother and more polished interactions for international users. ### Fixed - **⚡ MPS Functionality for Mac Users**: Fixed MPS support, ensuring smooth performance and compatibility for Mac users leveraging MPS. - **📡 Ollama Connection Management**: Resolved the issue where deleting all Ollama connections prevented adding new ones. ### Changed - **⚙️ General Stability Refac**: Backend refactoring delivers a more stable, robust platform. - **🖥️ Desktop App Preparations**: Ongoing work to support the upcoming Open WebUI desktop app. Follow our progress and updates here: https://github.com/open-webui/desktop - **ChromaDB version update**: chromadb has been updated to 0.6.2

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