# Open WebUI v0.6.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com)
- **Version:** v0.6.1
- **Released:** Apr 05, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/open-webui/updates/v0.6.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Open WebUI v0.6.1. Source highlight: [0.6.1] - 2025-04-05

## New Features
- 🛠️ **Global Tool Servers Configuration**: Admins can now centrally configure global external tool servers from Admin Settings > Tools, allowing seamless sharing of tool integrations across all users without manual setup per user.
- 🔐 **Direct Tool Usage Permission for Users**: Introduced a new user-level permission toggle that grants non-admin users access to direct external tools, empowering broader team collaboration while maintaining control.
- 🧠 **Mistral OCR Content Extraction Support**: Added native support for Mistral OCR as a high-accuracy document loader, drastically improving text extraction from scanned documents in RAG workflows.
- 🖼️ **Tools Indicator UI Redesign**: Enhanced message input now smartly displays both built-in and external tools via a unified dropdown, making it simpler and more intuitive to activate tools during conversations.
- 📄 **RAG Prompt Improved and More Coherent**: Default RAG system prompt has been revised to be more clear and citation-focused—admins can leave the template field empty to use this new gold-standard prompt.
- 🧰 **Performance & Developer Improvements**: Major internal restructuring of several tool-related components, simplifying styling and merging external/internal handling logic, resulting in better maintainability and performance.

## Bug Fixes
- 🔑 **External Tool Server API Key Bug Resolved**: Fixed a critical issue where authentication headers were not being sent when calling tools from external OpenAPI tool servers, ensuring full security and smooth tool operations.
- 🚫 **Conditional Export Button Visibility**: UI now gracefully hides export buttons when there's nothing to export in models, prompts, tools, or functions, improving visual clarity and reducing confusion.
- 🧪 **Hybrid Search Failure Recovery**: Resolved edge case in parallel hybrid search where empty or unindexed collections caused backend crashes—these are now cleanly skipped to ensure system stability.
- 📂 **Admin Folder Deletion Fix**: Addressed an issue where folders created in the admin workspace couldn't be deleted, restoring full organizational flexibility for admins.
- 🔐 **Improved Generic Error Feedback on Login**: Authentication errors now show simplified, non-revealing messages for privacy and improved UX, especially with federated logins.
- 📝 **Tool Message with Images Improved**: Enhanced how tool-generated messages with image outputs are shown in chat, making them more readable and consistent with the overall UI design.