# Open WebUI v0.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com)
- **Version:** v0.8.0
- **Released:** Feb 12, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/open-webui/updates/v0.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Open WebUI v0.8.0. Source highlight: [0.8.0] - 2026-02-12

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - ‼️ **Database Migration Required** — This release includes database schema changes; multi-worker, multi-server, or load-balanced deployments must update all instances simultaneously rather than performing rolling updates, as running mixed versions will cause application failures due to schema incompatibility between old and new instances.

## New Features
- 📊 **Analytics dashboard.** Administrators now have access to an Analytics dashboard showing model usage statistics, token consumption by model and user, user activity rankings, and time-series charts with hourly or daily granularity; clicking any model opens a detail view with feedback history, associated tags, and chat browser, and results can be filtered by user group. #21106, Commit, Commit
- 🎯 **Experimental support for Skills.** Open WebUI now supports the Skill standard — allowing users to create and manage reusable AI skills with detailed instructions, reference them in chats using the "$" command, or attach them to specific models for automatic context in conversations. #21312
- 🧪 **Experimental support for Open Responses protocol.** Connections can now be configured to use the experimental Open Responses protocol instead of Chat Completions, enabling native support for extended thinking, streaming reasoning tokens, and richer tool call handling for compatible providers. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 👥 **Redesigned access control UI.** The access control UI was redesigned with a more intuitive interface that makes it easier to add multiple groups at once. #21277
- 👤 **Per-user resource sharing.** Resources including knowledge bases, prompts, models, tools, channels, and base models can now be shared directly to individual users alongside the existing per-group sharing capability. #21277
- 📨 **Message queuing.** Messages can now be queued while a response is generating rather than being blocked, allowing you to continue your train of thought; queued messages are automatically combined and sent when generation completes, and can be edited, deleted, or sent immediately from the input area. Commit, Commit

## Improvements
- ‼️ **Database Migration Required** — This release includes database schema changes; multi-worker, multi-server, or load-balanced deployments must update all instances simultaneously rather than performing rolling updates, as running mixed versions will cause application failures due to schema incompatibility between old and new instances.

## Bug Fixes
- ⚡ **Connection pool exhaustion fix.** Database connection pool exhaustion and timeout errors during concurrent usage have been resolved by releasing connections before chat completion requests and embedding operations for memory and knowledge base processing. #20569, #20570, #20571, #20572, #20573, #20574, #20575, #20576, #20577, #20578, #20579, #20580, #20581, Commit, Commit
- 🚫 **LDAP authentication hang fix.** LDAP authentication no longer freezes the entire service when logging in with non-existent accounts, preventing application hangs. Commit, #21300
- ✅ **Trusted Header auto-registration fix.** Trusted Header Authentication now properly auto-registers new users after the first login, assigning the configured default role instead of failing for users not yet in the database. Commit
- 🛡️ **SSRF protection for image loading.** External image loading now validates URLs before fetching to prevent SSRF attacks against local and private network addresses. Commit
- 🛡️ **Malformed Authorization header fix.** Malformed Authorization headers no longer cause server crashes; requests are now handled gracefully instead of returning HTTP 500 errors. #20938, Commit
- 🚪 **Channel notification access control.** Users without channel permissions can no longer access channels through notifications, properly enforcing access controls across all channel entry points. #20883, #20789