Open WebUI v0.6.8 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

## [0.6.8] - 2025-05-10 ### Added - 🏆 **External Reranker Support for Knowledge Base Search**: Supercharge your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows with the new External Reranker integration; easily plug in advanced reranking services via the UI to deliver sharper and more relevant search results, accelerating research and insight discovery. - 📤 **Unstylized PDF Export Option (Reduced File Size)**: When exporting chat transcripts or documents, you can now choose an unstylized PDF export for snappier downloads, minimal file size, and clean data archiving—perfect for large-scale storage or sharing. - 📝 **Vazirmatn Font for Persian & Arabic**: Arabic and Persian users will now see their text beautifully rendered with the specialized Vazirmatn font for an improved localized reading experience. - 🏷️ **SharePoint Tenant ID Support for OneDrive**: You can now specify a SharePoint tenant ID in OneDrive settings for seamless authentication and granular enterprise integration. - 👤 **Refresh OAuth Profile Picture**: Your OAuth profile picture now updates in real-time, ensuring your presence and avatar always match your latest identity across integrated platforms. - 🔧 **Milvus Configuration Improvements**: Configure index and metric types for Milvus directly within settings; take full control of your vector database for more accurate and robust AI search experiences. - 🛡️ **S3 Tagging Toggle for Compatibility**: Optional S3 tagging via an environment toggle grants full compatibility with all storage backends—including those that don’t support tagging like Cloudflare R2—ensuring error-free attachment and document management. - 👨‍🦯 **Icon Button Accessibility Improvements**: Key interactive icon-buttons now include aria-labels and ARIA descriptions, so screen readers provide precise guidance about what action each button performs for improved accessibility. - ♿ **Enhanced Accessibility with Modal Focus Trap**: Modal dialogs and pop-ups now feature a focus trap and improved ARIA roles, ensuring seamless navigation and screen reader support—making the interface friendlier for everyone, including keyboard and assistive tech users. - 🏃 **Improved Admin User List Loading Indicator**: The user list loading experience is now clearer and more responsive in the admin panel. - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 **Larger Admin User List Page Size**: Admins can now manage up to 30 users per page in the admin interface, drastically reducing pagination and making large user teams easier and faster to manage. - 🌠 **Default Code Interpreter Prompt Clarified**: The built-in code interpreter prompt is now more explicit, preventing AI from wrapping code in Markdown blocks when not needed—ensuring properly formatted code runs as intended every time. - 🧾 **Improved Default Title Generation Prompt Template**: Title generation now uses a robust template for reliable JSON output, improving chat organization and searchability. - 🔗 **Support Jupyter Notebooks with Non-Root Base URLs**: Notebook-based code execution now supports non-root deployed Jupyter servers, granting full flexibility for hybrid or multi-user setups. - 📰 **UI Scrollbar Always Visible for Overflow Tools**: When available tools overflow the display, the scrollbar is now always visible and there’s a handy "show all" toggle, making navigation of large toolsets snappier and more intuitive. - 🛠️ **General Backend Refactoring for Stability**: Multiple under-the-hood improvements have been made across backend components, ensuring smoother performance, fewer errors, and a more reliable overall experience for all users. - 🚀 **Optimized Web Search for Faster Results**: Web search speed and performance have been significantly enhanced, delivering answers and sources in record time to accelerate your research-heavy workflows. - 💡 **More Supported Languages**: Expanded language support ensures an even wider range of users can enjoy an intuitive and natural interface in their native tongue. ### Fixed - 🏃‍♂️ **Exhausting Workers in Nginx Reverse Proxy Due to Websocket Fix**: Websocket sessions are now fully compatible behind Nginx, eliminating worker exhaustion and restoring 24/7 reliability for real-time chats even in complex deployments. - 🎤 **Audio Transcription Issue with OpenAI Resolved**: OpenAI-based audio transcription now handles WebM and newer formats without error, ensuring seamless voice-to-text workflows every time. - 👉 **Message Input RTL Issue Fixed**: The chat message input now displays correctly for right-to-left languages, creating a flawless typing and reading experience for Arabic, Hebrew, and more. - 🀄 **Katex: Proper Rendering of Chinese Characters Next to Math**: Math formulas now render perfectly even when directly adjacent to Chinese (CJK) characters, improving visual clarity for multilingual teams and cross-language documents. - 🔂 **Duplicate Web Search URLs Eliminated**: Search results now reliably filter out URL duplicates, so your knowledge and search citations are always clean, trimmed, and easy to review. - 📄 **Markdown Rendering Fixed in Knowledge Bases**: Markdown is now displayed correctly within knowledge bases, enabling better formatting and clarity of information-rich files. - 🗂️ **LDAP Import/Loading Issue Resolved**: LDAP user imports process correctly, ensuring smooth onboarding and access without interruption. - 🌎 **Pinecone Batch Operations and Async Safety**: All Pinecone operations (batch insert, upsert, delete) now run efficiently and safely in an async environment, boosting performance and preventing slowdowns in large-scale RAG jobs.