Open WebUI v0.6.12 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

## [0.6.12] - 2025-05-29 ### Added - 🧩 **Custom Advanced Model Parameters**: You can now add your own tailor-made advanced parameters to any model, empowering you to fine-tune behavior and unlock greater flexibility beyond just the built-in options—accelerate your experimentation. - 🪧 **Datalab Marker API Content Extraction Support**: Seamlessly extract content from files and documents using the Datalab Marker API directly in your workflows, enabling more robust structured data extraction for RAG and document processing with just a simple engine switch in the UI. - ⚡ **Parallelized Base Model Fetching**: Experience noticeably faster startup and model refresh times—base model data now loads in parallel, drastically shortening delays in busy or large-scale deployments. - 🧠 **Efficient Function Loading and Caching**: Functions are now only reloaded if their content changes, preventing unnecessary duplicate loads, saving bandwidth, and boosting performance. - 🌍 **Localization & Translation Enhancements**: Improved and expanded Simplified, Traditional Chinese, and Russian translations, providing smoother, more accurate, and context-aware experiences for global users. ### Fixed - 💬 **Stable Message Input Box**: Fixed an issue where the message input box would shift unexpectedly (especially on mobile or with screen reader support), ensuring a smooth and reliable typing experience for every user. - 🔊 **Reliable Read Aloud (Text-to-Speech)**: Read aloud now works seamlessly across messages, so users depending on TTS for accessibility or multitasking will experience uninterrupted and clear voice playback. - 🖼 **Image Preview and Download Restored**: Fixed problems with image preview and downloads, ensuring frictionless creation, previewing, and downloading of images in your chats—no more interruptions in creative or documentation workflows. - 📱 **Improved Mobile Styling for Workspace Capabilities**: Capabilities management is now readable and easy-to-use even on mobile devices, empowering admins and users to manage access quickly on the go. - 🔁 **/api/v1/retrieval/query/collection Endpoint Reliability**: Queries to retrieval collections now return the expected results, bolstering the reliability of your knowledge workflows and citation-ready responses. ### Removed - 🧹 **Duplicate CSS Elements**: Streamlined the UI by removing redundant CSS, reducing clutter and improving load times for a smoother visual experience. > [!TIP] > **Looking for an [Enterprise Plan](https://docs.openwebui.com/enterprise)?** – **[Speak with Our Sales Team Today!](mailto:[email protected])** > > Get **enhanced capabilities**, including **custom theming and branding**, **Service Level Agreement (SLA) support**, **Long-Term Support (LTS) versions**, and **more!** 👏 Massive thanks to our incredible contributors for their hard work and dedication to making this release possible: @TiancongLx, @SadmL, @Hisma, @Zyfax, @qingchunnh, @NotYuSheng, @torisetxd, @hurxxxx ## Sponsors 🙌 🚀 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!) #### Emerald - **n8n** <a href="https://n8n.io/" target="_blank"> <img src="https://docs.openwebui.com/sponsors/banners/n8n-banner.png" alt="n8n" style="width: 8rem; height: 8rem; border-radius: .75rem;" /> </a> - **Warp** <a href="https://warp.dev/open-webui" target="_blank"> <img src="https://docs.openwebui.com/sponsors/banners/warp-banner.png" alt="warp" style="width: 8rem; height: 8rem; border-radius: .75rem;" /> </a> @amd, @agency-agency, @roosi-gmbh, @Unsupervisedcom, @feddersen-group, @SRKConsulting, @mushmax, @rndmcnlly, @icanbwell, @blogic-cz, @Krambu-Travis, @GenieDev101, @PortlandKyGuy, @CubicleGangster, @GitDatamind, @TOWaB, @TheZigGroup, @Classic298, @comet-ml, @chAyubTahir