Share folders with your team. You can now share a folder and the chats inside it with specific users, groups, or everyone, with read or write access; people you share with see shared folders in their sidebar and open the chats in a read-only view when they are not the owner, and administrators control who is allowed to share folders with a new "Folders Sharing" permission that is off by default. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
Automatic context compaction for long chats. Conversations that grow past a configurable token threshold can now be summarized automatically so they stay within a model's context window, with a notification shown while it happens; administrators can enable it, set the threshold, customize the summarization prompt, and lower the threshold per model. It is off by default. Commit, Commit, Commit, #19594
Open WebUI Computer agent support. Open WebUI can now connect to Open WebUI Computer through its OpenAI-compatible gateway, letting chats run full agent sessions on your own machine with file, terminal, git, and web access. GitHub
Much faster hybrid search on large knowledge bases. Hybrid search now runs natively in the database on pgvector setups instead of loading an entire collection into memory, so querying large knowledge bases is dramatically faster. Commit, #20737
External knowledge bases. Knowledge bases can now be backed by an external retrieval source through configurable external knowledge connections, so you can search an existing external system from chat instead of only Open WebUI's built-in store. Commit
Reworked memory system. Memory has been overhauled with distinct memory types - long-lived personal memories and per-conversation context - managed through a structured add, update, and delete flow, giving models a more reliable way to remember and apply what they've learned about you. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
New plugin primitive: the Event function. Where pipe, filter, and action functions all run inside a conversation, the new Event function is the first primitive that hooks into the system itself: it runs your own Python in response to events emitted across the whole application - sign-ups, configuration changes, file uploads, role changes, deletions, startup and shutdown, and more. That makes a new class of behavior possible directly inside Open WebUI, from onboarding and access control to auditing, lifecycle automation, and external integrations. Comes with starter boilerplate in the function editor. Commit, Docs
New event system with webhooks. Open WebUI now emits events for a wide range of system activity - sign-ins, configuration changes, startup, and actions across chats, knowledge, files, and more. Administrators can send these as outbound webhooks, route them to specific users or groups, and manage which events go where from a new event settings admin page. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, #1240, #16426
Configure authentication from the admin panel. LDAP and OAuth/OIDC settings now have a dedicated Authentication settings page, so providers can be configured from the admin interface. Commit, #12945
More custom header variables. Custom request headers now support "{{USER_MESSAGE_ID}}", "{{USER_MESSAGE_PARENT_ID}}", and "{{TASK}}", letting connected services tell apart real user messages from automated background requests like title, tag, and follow-up generation. Commit
File details forwarded to external document extractors. External custom document-extraction servers now receive the file's ID, name, and content type, and these are also available as custom header variables, so extraction can be tailored per file. Commit, #26259
Last model pre-selected for new slots. When you add another model to a multi-model chat, the slot now defaults to the model you last picked instead of starting empty. #25974
Faster model overview. The admin model overview now loads its feedback history and tags through batched queries, so it opens noticeably faster on instances with many chats. Commit
Lighter channel profile previews. Profile previews in channels now load a person's details only when you hover to open one, rather than fetching them for every message up front. Commit
Reset permissions to defaults. The group and default permission dialogs now include a button to restore all permissions back to their built-in defaults in one step. #25931
Chat import permission. Administrators can now control whether users are allowed to import or clone chats, with a new "Allow Chat Import" permission. Commit, Commit, Commit, #25927
Per-group user webhook permission. Administrators can now control which users may set a personal notification webhook, with a new "User Webhooks" permission. #25923
Customizable autocomplete prompt. Administrators can now set a custom prompt template for autocomplete generation from the admin interface settings. Commit, #25879
Configurable secret key length. The auto-generated secret key length can now be set with a new environment variable, instead of always using a fixed length. Commit, #25906
Arena evaluation models configurable via environment. Arena evaluation models can now be defined through an environment variable, which previously could not be set that way. Commit
Edit prompts from the menu. The prompts list now has an Edit option in each prompt's menu, taking you straight to its editor. #25789
Clone automations. Automations now have a Clone option in their menu, so you can duplicate one as a starting point. #25790
Recurring calendar events. The calendar event editor now includes a repeat option, so events can recur on a schedule. #25865
Separate skills import and export permissions. Administrators can now control importing and exporting skills independently, with new skills import and export permissions. #25921
Filter admin models by tag. The admin Models settings page now has a tag filter for narrowing the model list by base-model tags. Commit
Sortable analytics chat list. The model chat list in analytics now has sortable column headers, so you can order it by title, last updated, or user. Commit, #26168
Argon2 password hashing option. Password hashing can now use Argon2 through a configurable algorithm setting, removing the 72-byte password length limit that came with the previous default. Commit, Commit, #25656
Optional encryption of valve values at rest. Tool and function valve values can now be encrypted at rest through a new opt-in setting, with existing stored values migrated automatically, so sensitive settings like API keys aren't kept in plaintext. Commit, #23721
AWS RDS IAM database authentication. The database connection can now authenticate using AWS RDS IAM tokens through a new opt-in setting, instead of only a static password. Commit, #23580
Automatic auth for models with OAuth 2.1 tools. When a model uses tools that require OAuth 2.1, Open WebUI now initiates the authorization flow automatically instead of failing the request. Commit, #23325, #23272
Custom tokenizer for token-based text splitting. Token-based document splitting can now use a configurable Hugging Face tokenizer model, so chunking can match the tokenizer of the model you use. Commit, #24139
Restrict OAuth scopes requested from MCP servers. A new setting lets administrators limit which OAuth scopes Open WebUI requests when connecting to MCP servers. Commit, #25981, #25978
