From 4c52c4dfd64b1f3da85602cd07a1b305e3095e8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Classic298 <27028174+Classic298@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 19:05:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: cover the settings save rework

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 CHANGELOG.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🗒️ **A note edit survives leaving the page.** A note's title and its attachments save a moment after they change, and leaving the note inside that moment dropped the save, so the notes list kept showing the old title until the page was reloaded; the pending save now finishes before the next page opens. [#29745](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29745), [#29744](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/29744)
 - 🧩 **Tool steps stay in a finished reply.** A reply that called tools showed each step as it ran, then lost them the moment the reply completed, because the provider's closing message replaced everything on screen rather than joining it; the closing message is now merged into what is already there, and a tool call is no longer mistaken for its own result. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e1bfefdf9f8f2012cecfc7d81079bd6fff147932)
 - 🙋 **Answering in your own words lets you send.** Where the last question a model asks is answered by typing into the other field rather than picking an option, the button that sends the answers stayed greyed out however much was filled in; it now follows what has been entered. [#29494](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29494), [#29311](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/29311)
+- 🎚️ **Settings you may change save even where others are barred.** An account without permission to change the interface settings had every settings save refused outright, its notification and tool server settings among them; the settings it may not touch are now left as they are and the rest saves. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/98a920168e2eea435ac15e1ad3d679946631e41d)
+- ⚠️ **A settings save that fails says so.** Settings that could not be saved were shown as saved anyway until the page was reloaded, because the interface stored them locally without waiting on the server; a failure now raises an error and leaves the panel as it was. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/98a920168e2eea435ac15e1ad3d679946631e41d)
 - 🔠 **Menu text follows the interface scale.** The entries in the menus that drop down across the interface, among them the account menu and the menus on a chat, were pinned to a fixed size and stayed put while the menu around them grew; they now scale with the rest of the interface. [#29493](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29493), [#29488](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/29488)
 - 🧯 **Reading a web page leaves the log alone.** Fetching a page through the browser-driven loader filled the log with tracebacks where the page closed while it was still pulling pieces of itself, as sites behind Cloudflare and similar do; those requests are now let go of before the page closes. [#29325](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29325), [#28869](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28869)
 - 📤 **Exporting tools stops at what you may edit.** Exporting all tools at once returned every tool the account could see, the source of a tool shared for reading included; it now returns only the tools it may edit, matching the single-tool export and the way models already export. [#29310](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29310)
@@ -77,6 +79,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🧰 **Slim installs no requirement from a git address.** The slim image no longer carries git, so a tool or function whose requirements point at a `git+https://` address fails to install and needs the standard image or a published package. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/30eed1251301f74e0dfeaad09c41e81320f790fc)
 - 🧾 **Tools importing packages they never declared stop working.** Packages that sat in the image only by accident, among them nltk, pymongo, the Google Drive client and the Gemini SDK, are no longer installed, so a tool or function importing one stops working on upgrade until it names the package in its own requirements; an instance that cannot reach the package index needs the package built into the image instead. [#29725](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29725), [#29726](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29726), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a1c02098aa2687c72482a59117efe643b785df51)
 - 🔗 **Default suggestions answer with an object.** `POST /api/v1/configs/suggestions` now answers with an object holding the suggestions and their per-language wording, in place of the bare list it returned before, so anything calling it directly has to read the new shape. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7b6562e3358956ec71eed05352538a646d047734)
+- 🧷 **Personal settings save one field at a time.** `POST /api/v1/users/user/settings/update` now takes only the settings that changed rather than the whole interface object: a field left out keeps its value and a field sent as null goes back to whatever the administrator's default says, which anything writing settings directly will need to follow. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/98a920168e2eea435ac15e1ad3d679946631e41d)
 - 🪵 **A refused model says why in the log.** A request turned away with "Model not found" now writes a warning naming the account, the model and the reason it was refused, whether the model is not registered, the account holds no grant on it, or a base model behind it is out of reach, while the message the caller sees stays as vague as before. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f5fcf4c89fb27ed39825875d573446fa84aa2a5b)
 
 ## [0.11.3] - 2026-08-31