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 - ⏲️ **Chat timers.** The assistant can now set a timer that brings a prompt back into the conversation later, after a delay or at a set time, and can drop it automatically if you read the chat or reply before it fires. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b23ddeb2800098c6352203ec8fbe9fca40ba415c)
 - 🔔 **Notification targets.** Notifications now have their own settings tab where you can send them to several webhook destinations, each picking which events it wants, from chats finishing or failing to channel messages and calendar alerts, with a test button and a choice between always notifying or only when you are away, and any webhook you already had is carried over for you. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c55e373b994d3a14c99a97f44261422012f63266), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/cf235738f5a44db415012b3b0ebc1f6e752f5439), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/200d447f6289faca42f2a666bbabae2c7f3ebadf), [#24750](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/24750)
 - 📣 **Notifications from the assistant.** The assistant can now send you a notification itself when something is worth your attention, so a long task can reach you after you have moved on to something else. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c55e373b994d3a14c99a97f44261422012f63266), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/200d447f6289faca42f2a666bbabae2c7f3ebadf)
-- 🔌 **Disable plugins entirely.** Administrators can now completely turn off the built-in Tools and Functions plugin surfaces through a new "ENABLE_PLUGINS" setting, which hides them across the workspace and admin areas and removes their execution paths. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bd6e0b61c2ae073aba9556ae46c345f4749acb84), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8e46450acd7ae11a4dee166d19a7c9833d991e79), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/951f96021a970fbd4837a4ee441565c0cf3d2824), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/252e6fd855099e1c880f4def18aa09aedbe1733a)
+- 🌎 **Share a chat with anyone holding the link.** A shared chat can now be set to Open so it opens without signing in, with visitors no longer bounced to the sign-in page on their way to it, which administrators must first allow through a new "Chats Open Sharing" permission that stays off by default, and such pages ask search engines not to index them. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1f0dc90abe879a55f654f2333e29fb0f630831c7), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/0e0d08382ac0d05b1ad98c47e8a2e37df2a185bb)
+- 🔖 **Chat variables.** A model's system prompt can now declare fields such as text boxes and dropdown lists that you fill in for a conversation, with the values saved alongside the chat and carried over when it is forked or cloned. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bef8ae4b2f05ca49ed88a02ab7a3cdc11b62c4f1), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4e869011cd5040b5d6a197fc83d5f50d2425dbc2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1e88367cc837b39c0e9958fefbe053803336dce2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8cbb7f765cfc9c9b3237a6c5593cd93f849033f0), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b35e2d265a4e4a2f2a075b31917d48be1dd9ef19), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/239cb740077a14e452ad002a1e671a09ab558e40), [#26915](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/26915)
 - 🗄️ **LDAP group synchronization.** Administrators can now map LDAP groups to Open WebUI groups from the authentication settings, with optional automatic creation of missing groups, so a user's group memberships are kept in step with the directory each time they sign in. [#27263](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27263), [#18015](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/18015)
 - 👥 **Restrict sharing with groups.** Admins can now stop resources from being shared with entire groups through a new "USER_PERMISSIONS_ACCESS_GRANTS_ALLOW_GROUPS" permission, which stays enabled by default so existing group sharing keeps working untouched. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4ed19d504bd30c0fc801e9228d9816669ec1c09c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f84dabe3d97ff701c097055023f28f3f2f7ebd07), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/77da3d8c81b9a6fda4354619de94f5d433328d8e), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/84e4d6ef8277f4b4f3ac4d355b3219e9b5a37268), [#27124](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27124)
 - 🤝 **Shared folder collaboration.** People with access to a shared folder can now use its files and system prompt as knowledge in chat and, with write access, rename and manage the folder, all according to their read or write permission. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/797293c74957bd79e42262d1dc0fd637a45d0357), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/caa2457c17e592587b804f21054cc000944af75c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/009715cd63d1c8b5320aba68e9a70afcde519016), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/53ccd718a53de25bb6d61476a6617bfb3f130a44)
 - 👁️ **Chat previews in the sidebar.** Hovering a chat in the sidebar now shows a compact preview of its recent messages, so you can find the conversation you want without opening it. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d0f7da4f45b8831b09b2ab3ec8f91aa354d90ba3), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/aaf2834db758bfec69408ab4cabcf324965c221c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1513ddaf58fe18029086880461d7cad0649a699c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/93bd05271c07c249978d69abf3297fd2841900f9)
 - 🕗 **Local message timestamps.** Message timestamps now appear on hover in your device's local date and time format, with the full weekday and date shown in a tooltip. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/797293c74957bd79e42262d1dc0fd637a45d0357), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f84dabe3d97ff701c097055023f28f3f2f7ebd07)
-- 🔖 **Chat variables.** A model's system prompt can now declare fields such as text boxes and dropdown lists that you fill in for a conversation, with the values saved alongside the chat and carried over when it is forked or cloned. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bef8ae4b2f05ca49ed88a02ab7a3cdc11b62c4f1), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4e869011cd5040b5d6a197fc83d5f50d2425dbc2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1e88367cc837b39c0e9958fefbe053803336dce2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8cbb7f765cfc9c9b3237a6c5593cd93f849033f0), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b35e2d265a4e4a2f2a075b31917d48be1dd9ef19), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/239cb740077a14e452ad002a1e671a09ab558e40), [#26915](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/26915)
 - 📇 **User variables.** You can now store your own values in account settings, such as your role or how you like answers written, and a model's system prompt can insert them wherever they are needed. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bd5d7b2e879511882429075d804d9222956f4a1a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/212eec408ca320edfa2271e604d10e14b6a9bc1a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/793a43d9c48225925929eb312fe2b70d5914d1da)
 - 🗜️ **Compact a chat on demand.** Typing a compact command in a long conversation now summarizes the earlier turns straight away, instead of waiting for it to happen automatically once the conversation grows past the threshold. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7a9928ef172b7c280c377c86cb52957e39340158), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/75894161e46aafe30a7db4ecc946af60f04495e4)
 - 🌿 **Fork a chat.** Every response now has a fork button that copies the conversation up to that point into a new chat which remembers where it branched, so you can carry on down a different path without touching the original. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/63ada247066dfc51e0e9559366f0cfd9a98db40b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/cf887b68ea58bcd1d8b035842c4ea35a5113ed8b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/73421c5b42ac5c2ebc5faa520b7ed3fa0e39f10d), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e769f9ff4f9fa7b0faebdd4f34ff98fe0dcc300d)
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 - ⚡ **Lighter model lists.** Model lists no longer carry embedded profile images in their data, so they load faster. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/9281adc5647b7046e3ddcc53ac4b84be7f650221), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f3a35507845e4a911c3d278d680a9989bb8d99ad)
 - 🏗️ **Fewer queries when building the model list.** Assembling the model list now makes fewer database round trips and no longer fetches every plugin's source code along the way, so it comes together faster. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/6b655689ccbdf2111620d005a8e6dedb8fb673f8), [#27389](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27389)
 - 🪶 **Model lists without knowledge text.** Model lists no longer include the extracted text of files attached to a model as knowledge, so they stay small regardless of how large those knowledge bases are. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/48625e657ff11161c3588af2747598f102c1a4d1), [#27287](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27287)
-- ♿ **Improved UI accessibility.** Keyboard and screen reader users can now open reasoning and detail blocks in a response, expand sidebar sections without a mouse, hear what each admin settings switch, group permission toggle, checkbox, API key field and advanced model parameter slider controls, have the message box announced by its placeholder instead of as an unnamed field, press Enter on Cancel in a confirmation dialog without triggering the delete, and reach the regenerate control, while sidebar buttons across notes, automations, the playground, and admin pages announce whether they open or close the sidebar. [#27510](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27510), [#27513](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27513), [#27503](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27503), [#27494](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27494), [#27491](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27491), [#27490](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27490), [#27489](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27489), [#27488](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27488), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/421834b2de287b8d5291d4b695ba6ed4528a5e7f)
+- 🔌 **Disable plugins entirely.** Administrators can now completely turn off the built-in Tools and Functions plugin surfaces through a new "ENABLE_PLUGINS" setting, which hides them across the workspace and admin areas and removes their execution paths. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bd6e0b61c2ae073aba9556ae46c345f4749acb84), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8e46450acd7ae11a4dee166d19a7c9833d991e79), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/951f96021a970fbd4837a4ee441565c0cf3d2824), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/252e6fd855099e1c880f4def18aa09aedbe1733a)
+- ♿ **Improved UI accessibility.** Keyboard and screen reader users can now open reasoning and detail blocks in a response, expand sidebar sections without a mouse, open a dropdown's submenu with the keyboard and close it again with Escape, hear what each admin settings switch, group permission toggle, checkbox, API key field and advanced model parameter slider controls, have the message box announced by its placeholder instead of as an unnamed field, press Enter on Cancel in a confirmation dialog without triggering the delete, and reach the regenerate control, placeholder text, secondary labels and icons are now readable against their background when High Contrast Mode is on, and sidebar buttons across notes, automations, the playground, and admin pages announce whether they open or close the sidebar. [#27510](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27510), [#27513](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27513), [#27503](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27503), [#27494](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27494), [#27491](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27491), [#27490](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27490), [#27489](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27489), [#27488](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27488), [#27555](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27555), [#27556](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27556), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/421834b2de287b8d5291d4b695ba6ed4528a5e7f), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7bfc4bb2c25249d3922acd54d5bc516db52c8519)
 - 🔄 **General improvements.** Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
 - 🌐 **Translation updates.** Slovenian is now available, and translations for English (UK), Finnish, German, Japanese and Portuguese (Brazil) were enhanced and expanded.
 
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 - 🔐 **Folder sharing permission.** The folder sharing setting in default and group permissions now saves instead of being silently discarded, so allowing or restricting folder sharing actually takes effect. [#27296](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27296), [#27120](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27120)
 - 🔕 **Webhook permission enforcement.** People without permission to use webhooks can no longer save webhook notification destinations to their settings, so the permission is enforced when settings are saved rather than only reflected in the interface. [#27297](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27297), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/af629177f46fa4595175f914c971c47701d1a676)
 - 🚥 **Automation limits in chat.** Automations that the assistant creates or reschedules on your behalf now respect the same maximum count and minimum interval as the ones you set up yourself, instead of being able to exceed both. [#27523](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27523), [#27121](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27121)
+- ⏲️ **Cancelling someone else's timers.** Marking a chat as read now only clears your own pending timers on it, instead of clearing everyone's, which had let another person's scheduled prompt be silently cancelled without them being told. [#27472](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27472)
 - 🪜 **Reaching a restricted model through a shared one.** A shared workspace model can no longer be used to reach an underlying model the person could not otherwise use, which previously slipped through when that model had no entry of its own. [#26905](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26905), [#26900](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26900)
 - 🖌️ **Shared image checkpoint changes.** Only administrators can now change the instance-wide Automatic1111 checkpoint, so an ordinary image generation request no longer switches the image model for everyone. [#27244](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27244)
 - 💬 **Channel message ownership.** Only the author of a channel message, or an administrator, can now edit or delete it, instead of anyone able to post in that channel. [#27197](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27197)
@@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🔗 **Settings links that open in place.** A link to a settings tab now opens it without a page refresh, and the Add Terminal button in the terminal menu goes straight to the Integrations tab instead of flashing the admin panel and doing nothing. [#27552](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27552), [#27551](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27551)
 - 📱 **Model selector on small screens.** The model list now stays fully on screen and sizes itself to the space available, instead of running past the edge or hiding behind the on-screen keyboard on phones. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/79d3e34eea6dc2828d1945cc2b9fca5d662d825b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e39ff71532651438c32b2aa7ffe2b6068c94e6b2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ea31a3bd61fdf1a72206f9ed5f7252486d554c9b)
 - 📐 **Input menu with keyboard open.** The message input's attachment menu now stays on screen and resizes to fit when the on-screen keyboard is open on mobile, instead of running off the edge. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/6e5efc1f757c614814ba88bbae6caa3aaddda528)
+- 🧾 **Attachment menus load once.** Opening a submenu of the attachment menu now requests its list a single time instead of twice. [#27461](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27461), [#27459](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27459)
 - 🔦 **Chat search on PostgreSQL.** Searching your chats now finds matches in current conversations on PostgreSQL setups, instead of only matching chats still stored in the older format. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/cc9a44569ef08b64ff44d15607c43966f362ce75)
 - 🔍 **Knowledge base file search.** Searching inside knowledge base files now returns matching lines with correct line numbers, and patterns that list alternatives separated by a pipe find matches instead of silently returning none. [#27249](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27249), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e18e249d5da3d8fe701a885edc64341cc5dbf813), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8d2fee5d4559d030b53575d377a0013e2c67b9fe), [#26795](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26795), [#26781](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26781), [#26744](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26744)
 - 🖨️ **PDF text recognition.** The text recognition package is now included again, so the application starts and PDFs with image text extraction enabled upload correctly instead of failing. [#26851](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26851), [#26646](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26646), [#26994](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26994)
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 - 🗑️ **Deleting a model from the selector.** Removing a workspace model from the model selector menu now deletes just that model and leaves the underlying one in place, instead of failing with a not found error. [#26819](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26819)
 - 🧰 **Model editor loading.** The model editor no longer fails to open when its tool list can't be loaded, falling back gracefully instead. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/10724d057af13a826c52e92b1c01a031656768d5)
 - 🗃️ **Milvus Lite collection creation.** Setting up collections now succeeds on embedded Milvus Lite, which previously could fail while creating the resource index. [#26911](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/26911)
+- 🧽 **Milvus log noise.** Instances backed by Milvus no longer fill their logs with deprecation warnings while indexing and retrieving, and keep working with future PyMilvus releases that drop the old interface entirely. [#27521](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27521), [#26978](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26978)
 - 🚏 **Stray terminal containers.** Terminal orchestrator connections that use a policy now send every request through that policy, so each person no longer ends up with a second unintended container alongside the intended one. [#26945](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26945), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7088d245bb45fc69c0b22748563b9f3c6f0daa73)
 - ♻️ **Connection changes take effect immediately.** Saving connection settings now refreshes the model list straight away, instead of leaving the previous models in place until the server was restarted.
 - 🚫 **Disabled OpenAI connections are enforced.** Turning off the OpenAI API now blocks chat requests to it and clears its models, rather than only hiding it from the interface.