# Open WebUI v0.6.29 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com)
- **Version:** v0.6.29
- **Released:** Sep 17, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/open-webui/updates/v0.6.29/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Open WebUI v0.6.29. Source highlight: [0.6.29] - 2025-09-17

## New Features
- 🎨 The chat input menu has been completely overhauled with a revolutionary new design, consolidating attachments under a unified '+' button, organizing integrations into a streamlined options menu, and introducing powerful, interactive selectors for attaching chats, notes, and knowledge base items. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 🤖 AI models can now be mentioned in channels to automatically generate responses, enabling multi-model conversations where mentioned models participate directly in threaded discussions with full context awareness. Commit
- 💬 The Channels feature now utilizes the modern rich text editor, including support for '/', '@', and '#' command suggestions. Commit, Commit
- 📎 Channel message input now supports direct paste functionality for images and files from the clipboard, streamlining content sharing workflows. Commit
- ⚙️ Models can now be configured with default features (Web Search, Image Generation) and filters that automatically activate when a user selects the model. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 💬 The ability to reference other chats as context within a conversation was added via the attachment menu. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit

## Bug Fixes
- 📚 Knowledge base permission logic was corrected to ensure private collection owners can access their own content when embedding bypass is enabled. #17432, Commit
- ⚙️ Connection URL editing in Admin Settings now properly saves changes instead of reverting to original values, fixing issues with both Ollama and OpenAI-compatible endpoints. #17435, Commit
- 📊 Usage information collection from Google models was corrected to handle providers that send usage data alongside content chunks instead of separately. #17421, Commit
- ⚙️ Settings modal scrolling issue was resolved by moving image compression controls to a dedicated modal, preventing the main settings from becoming scrollable out of view. #17474, Commit
- 📁 Folder click behavior was improved to prevent accidental actions by implementing proper double-click detection and timing delays for folder expansion and selection. Commit
- 🔐 Access control component reliability was improved with better null checking and error handling for group permissions and private access scenarios. Commit, Commit