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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## [0.11.1] - 2026-08-11
+## [0.11.1] - 2026-08-14
 
 ### Added
 
+- 📶 **Far less work to stream a reply.** A reply now streams as small pieces of new text instead of resending the whole message so far with every update, cutting the data sent during a long answer by hundreds of times over, from more than a gigabyte to under two megabytes on a very long response, with a matching drop in the processor time spent passing those updates between instances on a shared setup, and a reply still in progress is now kept aside on the server, so reopening the conversation after a refresh picks it up where it is rather than showing a blank message. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a1579a01ff43cacb357269707d36267ad35e01d6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c755ef60c6bd47ea25306bd898d9a6d1bd8e871d), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d02b6a21fc02fb073782e25356968cfee3c45c36)
 - 🔍 **Smarter chat search.** Searching your chats now finds conversations containing all of your words in any order rather than only the exact phrase you typed, with exact matches still listed first, and the preview snippet points at whichever word it found. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/0800c21c64c64810f24c2ec88cca5e36daebb10e)
 - ⌨️ **Model switching from the message box.** Typing "/model" now tells you which model you are on, switching to another by name with "/model" followed by its id, or opening the model picker straight from the slash menu without reaching for the mouse. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/29eeda9f9abeaedf77176908cb036ace7f175e76), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/9c7ce154e79a3baea3a8223ab1e5b1371ce80dbb)
 - 📎 **Sending while attachments upload.** Sending a message before its files have finished uploading now queues it and sends it automatically once they are ready, instead of refusing with an error, and each queued message shows the progress of its attachments. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/6c4d0ace163a89aba6e8cd2aa9fef185167ebe0f), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c1c07cbe0f847e4dd04e21f2a6c5f12cdc0fc7ee), [#28381](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28381), [#28380](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28380)
@@ -24,11 +25,19 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🔒 **Read-only files in the terminal browser.** Files and folders you are not allowed to change are now labelled read-only, with uploading, editing, renaming, moving, and deleting turned off for them rather than failing at the moment you try. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2dadc5435af77b0638af69200e3af1b9654417b6)
 - 🔐 **Terminals that use your own login.** Managed terminals configured for session authentication now connect using your own credentials instead of one shared key for everyone. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2dadc5435af77b0638af69200e3af1b9654417b6)
 - 🔗 **Attaching any link.** Pasting a link into a chat or a knowledge base now works out what is behind it, downloading a document or image as a real attachment rather than treating everything as a web page to be read as text. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8fbfd14a8b3fe7236883594fd18760076e4de0d5)
+- 🧰 **Managing models on more servers.** Administrators can now download, load, unload, and remove models on llama.cpp and LM Studio connections from the manage models dialog and straight from the model picker's search box, alongside the Ollama support that was already there, and can refresh the model list without turning the cache off. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/85c3d0ae2fad58ffc2b92b1733a6c8bc7ab471db), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8260d527ee97372a207ce9bd9c6dab4909061281), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/25802c048e6123fa602182949ad2a9f349e1e863), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/31c1ffd55a018a74c7e53a35fb9f9bbe33774b6f)
+- 🙋 **Mentioning people in a channel.** Typing an at sign in a channel now lists that channel's own members first, before everyone else on the server, so the people you are likely to mean are at the top. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ba885d0026ad3cce70c7cc36d1d6f59775264a12)
+- 🗂️ **Recognisable file icons.** The terminal file browser now marks each file with an icon for its type, so code, images, archives, documents, and configuration files can be told apart at a glance instead of sharing one generic page icon. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/60feca71a6a77b7d1eef1c172a61624d5fe48150), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8d25ad00e2fc5f0a328a2098c2e73fb00f2ca934), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c1f914a6268580f7722825390ac8a204743a4520)
+- 🌲 **Browsing files as a tree.** The terminal file browser now expands folders in place rather than only navigating into them, remembers what you had open, offers a right-click menu, can show hidden files, sorts by size, and expands a folder you hover over while dragging something onto it. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7dfbdd221ac0f7a839dd049e3e82b6a84c316860), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2e939874904e1ae54d02b8bc6d745931a8e1f673)
+- 🔬 **Zoom controls on previewed images.** An image opened in the file browser now has zoom in, zoom out, and a reset button showing the current zoom, and pinching to zoom responds more readily. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2befa8f796266e92fa55861bb8eaa81639ff4053), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bfb68feea766e8d5408fb6e278be56cbca0c4afe), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ec9bf5a64f9f718e472123350ec83bce1b064884)
+- 📢 **Automations that post to a channel.** An automation can now be pointed at a channel instead of a chat, so its scheduled run appears as a message there for everyone to see, chosen from a new destination picker that also covers folders. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2649e3305c49cb37101c112ae10ffd8beacb5885)
+- 🙋‍♂️ **Models that can ask you a question.** A new built-in tool lets a model pause and put up to three multiple-choice questions to you before continuing, with room to type your own answer instead, and the question survives a reload so you can come back and answer it later rather than losing the conversation. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4465f52a3eb521854cf190f91b0ea7cf3fa21830), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/133549a87ee371577453d897c2db2d8071223f27), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b018feb7419e68314378b3cdd8b7b1b389400a98), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/083e35144152d6a301bed01aa6d898db3871ddcf), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/256cce505be8ddd4930e8cb2536faea718d3f789), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/14e4d72d9a21a10196e8e6efb04180cd9104b8e6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/57bd08304e45f707768a898de9f50894929008dd), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d9014b3483d4c6e8d99e50395afcdc538bcf05cd)
+- 🚦 **Approving tool calls before they run.** Where an administrator has turned it on, you can switch a conversation from letting tools run freely to being asked first, so a model that wants to use a tool stops and waits for you to allow or deny it, one call at a time, with your choice remembered for future conversations and automations and channel replies unaffected. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7d99b2716a0472b2100b3a71825d8eb3fcbbe877), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ec36972c2b5a8d48713f1a240b0ed305e535b4cc), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/653562d660398c32a9a193450bbbee300d7195c3), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/fa94a5ab2431edba064150651a14dd4992ef29e8), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/55c202e841e76cd69679206cd0ecb4a65b039ea4)
 - 🪟 **Honest OAuth settings.** When single sign-on settings come from the environment rather than being saved in the application, the admin panel now shows them as read-only with a note naming the setting that controls this, instead of accepting edits that were silently discarded on the next restart. [#28276](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28276)
 - 🔭 **OpenSERP in the search settings.** OpenSERP can now be picked as the web search engine in the admin panel, with a field for its address, rather than only being configurable through the environment. [#27594](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27594), [#27592](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27592)
 - 🎛️ **Settings for the task model.** Administrators can now set the generation parameters used for background work such as titles, tags, follow-ups, search queries, and conversation summaries, either from the admin panel or through "TASK_MODEL_PARAMS", instead of those requests always using a fixed token limit that could cut a summary short. [#27604](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27604), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f0bfcd40976dfb1e1876f86b39d6a659d894d15e), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/865c80c1600ecc2e606bef4e90540ce305b4b9de)
 - 📄 **Faithful Word document previews.** Word documents now open as proper pages with headers, footers, footnotes, and embedded images intact, and can be zoomed, rather than being flattened into plain formatted text. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ff7467b4c593f1e775311c088c63340d0cc1e4a2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/060648f939447e2a9de390d05221ca896c50eeed)
-- 📽️ **Truer PowerPoint previews.** Slide previews now pick up backgrounds, shape colours, text alignment, and the positions defined by a slide's layout, and open in a viewer with a thumbnail strip, zoom, and panning. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8dd23f74c9a59fdfbdaefb4a403ef79bdd3dfed9), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/048c06399363baac4046717129f072172ee90805)
+- 📽️ **Truer PowerPoint previews.** Slide previews now render tables, charts, connectors, gradients, theme colours, bullets, fonts, and text alignment far closer to the original, and the viewer lets you move between slides with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel while the thumbnail strip follows along. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8dd23f74c9a59fdfbdaefb4a403ef79bdd3dfed9), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/048c06399363baac4046717129f072172ee90805), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c93c6d6fc48ee8870eec349cb4c5af88c9435cfb), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/76583749edb966c0239ce203a84c1ee8d8c7faee), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b3a5fd3875dc3c29a11eb5435438e55685cad639), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/794671a9883d5e067c407067f324ffa25ed38e3f), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f96b717566b2084bd5fe70fb622ab66b5a643c0d), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b7292890ccea794750651abbcde01cda62551e1b)
 - 🧾 **Spreadsheet shape in retrieval.** Turning on "ENABLE_RAG_CSV_SUMMARY" adds a short line naming the row count, data row count, and column names of a CSV to what the model sees, giving it the shape of the table alongside its contents. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1b72899f246ba46ab8f7cd6aee2d56ef69217d82)
 - 🎚️ **Default interface settings for everyone.** Administrators can now set system-wide defaults for the interface options in Settings, either from the admin panel or through "DEFAULT_INTERFACE_SETTINGS", with each person's own choices still taking precedence and anything left untouched shown as inherited and kept in step with later changes to the defaults. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/37f2548155efdd5cd8114ceb9b57c7864de4bef2), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/13346c5f1621b014e2fcaabd41375d6f7035dd0a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/90a0e61cef119154e89d900d6921123b599a0389), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/eeaf1a1df01525e4b6d4eb73060b32a9a75ebfc6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d4461bd6f39936460a989e8bd50097de604b4b00), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b4d3b27caf1587b783a46268c769132eb9211c80), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/407c40f72cdadcd9f57538d9ce38070662ce42c7), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/724d2ebbf1bd2fc90f27a2e5bc571d40afc3db4c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1674e5a9ef835696f0963cdbcf477c8b92ce0b8a)
 - 🔠 **Interface scaling throughout.** The UI Scale setting and your browser's own text size now resize the whole interface consistently, including the sidebar, menus, dialogs, and file browser, rather than leaving parts of it fixed. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/30d08a42f8b0c32cc64dccd81203cc760651584a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b5f86e6a433b519e30a5a6f1b0a5bf985939c9a8), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ec03e8814403422a6ab3dc62f4239fd7af439361), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/72a909fd2f3ac8d67554f6c85bc1723934454e2d)
@@ -39,7 +48,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 👁️ **Turning off chat previews.** A new setting under Settings and Interface lets you switch off the preview card that appears when you hover a chat in the sidebar, useful for a quieter sidebar, for sharing your screen, or on a slow connection. [#27632](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27632), [#27639](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27639)
 - ☑️ **Checkboxes beside their labels.** In the model editor and the admin model defaults, each capability, feature, and tool checkbox now sits directly in front of its own label instead of at the far edge of its column, where it could look like it belonged to the next one. [#27788](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27788), [#27771](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27771)
 - ✍️ **Typing cursor while responding.** A blinking cursor now marks where the reply is being written, from the moment you send your message until generation finishes, in place of the previous loading placeholder. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/cbb3aade2b4e901c22aa9a30530634721c80b078)
-- ♿ **Improved UI accessibility.** A closed sidebar is no longer reachable by keyboard or announced by screen readers, the tool call blocks in a response can now be expanded with the keyboard, the buttons that normally appear on hover, such as message actions, file removal, and chat menus, now appear when you reach them with the keyboard as well, and whatever you have tabbed to is marked with a clear outline throughout the application. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/48a5696042b414f6511911afa72b3289ad2797b9), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bd250a0e2431f8c2c7e2f4a34c5327f21fc77d4b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c8f8fa451a60974dfa4ebaf7cd6163ef30c45fd6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/29541cbb52659a8a6ee22d255f14e6d2f168a09b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ac0368b4abe4c880f715b236ee0024826b2e3e7a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c086b80313fe0f5ce60831a0d150f695646c66e4)
+- ♿ **Improved UI accessibility.** A closed sidebar is no longer reachable by keyboard or announced by screen readers, the tool call blocks in a response can now be expanded with the keyboard, the buttons that normally appear on hover, such as message actions, file removal, and chat menus, now appear when you reach them with the keyboard as well, whatever you have tabbed to is marked with a clear outline throughout the application, and the rows in the integrations menu now tell a screen reader whether each tool or feature is switched on. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/48a5696042b414f6511911afa72b3289ad2797b9), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bd250a0e2431f8c2c7e2f4a34c5327f21fc77d4b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c8f8fa451a60974dfa4ebaf7cd6163ef30c45fd6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/29541cbb52659a8a6ee22d255f14e6d2f168a09b), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ac0368b4abe4c880f715b236ee0024826b2e3e7a), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c086b80313fe0f5ce60831a0d150f695646c66e4), [#27667](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27667), [#17150](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/17150)
 - 🔄 **General improvements.** Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
 - 🌐 **Translation updates.** Translations for Faroese, Slovenian, Hungarian, Finnish, Korean, and Portuguese (Brazil) were enhanced and expanded.
 
@@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🖇️ **Adding terminals over plain connections.** Saving a terminal connection now works when the interface is served without HTTPS, where the dialog would sit there doing nothing because the browser withholds the tool used to generate its identifier. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2a45fa04cb1d07b258e0b880ab0c02577f0dc035), [#28148](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28148)
 - 🗃️ **openGauss vector storage.** Deployments using openGauss for vector storage no longer fail the moment they touch it. [#27838](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27838)
 - 🎚️ **ColBERT reranker startup.** Loading a ColBERT reranker now names the model in the log rather than printing a logging error and a traceback in its place. [#27838](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27838)
-- 🖼️ **Images that no longer exist.** A message whose image file has been deleted now shows a small unavailable placeholder that cannot be opened, rather than a broken image that spilled the whole reply text into the picture frame and still opened full screen. [#27730](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27730), [#27728](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27728)
+- 🖼️ **Images that no longer exist.** A message whose image file has been deleted now shows a small unavailable placeholder that cannot be opened, rather than a broken image that spilled the whole reply text into the picture frame and still opened full screen. [#27730](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27730), [#27728](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27728), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f8c5fda283e6206d92e81ae3b83ffe5d7a144b03)
 - 🛂 **Connecting external accounts.** Authorizing a tool's external account now completes only for the person who started it, rather than for whoever happens to return with the authorization, and signing out clears the session it relies on. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/c2107e5bb3689a69c170ca526925f4ed84bd00f5)
 - 🪟 **Starting up on Windows.** The Windows start script now creates the secret key it needs on a fresh installation, instead of printing a run of file not found messages and then refusing to start, and it copes with an installation path that contains spaces. [#28061](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28061), [#28060](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28060)
 - 🕸️ **Overlapping branches in the overview.** Branch nodes in a chat's overview keep a clear gap between them when the interface is scaled up, rather than sitting on top of one another. [#27995](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27995), [#27994](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27994)
@@ -108,15 +117,25 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 📰 **Attached pages reaching the model.** The text pulled from an attached web page or YouTube video now actually reaches the model, rather than arriving empty so the reply had nothing to work from, and opening the source to check no longer fails. [#28379](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28379), [#28378](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28378), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/9c21d4ed3ba9ba8e53def7e1a1366b74834cb42d)
 - 🌐 **Tavily page fetching.** Reading a web page with Tavily selected as the loader works again, having failed on every attempt since 0.11.0. [#27636](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27636), [#27602](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27602)
 - 🗒️ **Reply box in threads.** The reply box in a channel thread now stays at the bottom of the panel while you scroll back through the replies, instead of scrolling out of sight with them. [#27768](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27768), [#27767](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27767)
+- 🎹 **Model picker shortcut.** The keyboard shortcut for opening the model picker works again, and a link to a chat naming a model you do not have still opens the picker with that name filled in. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e1acd7e7ca5085e03babbea16b4770e51c38886e)
+- ⌨️ **Reaching the download options by keyboard.** In the model picker, arrowing past the last result now moves through the options to fetch that model from each server that can supply it, so they can be chosen with the keyboard instead of only by clicking. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4e03d89414a7be1203579f45225ca64f1221205f), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/25802c048e6123fa602182949ad2a9f349e1e863)
+- 📂 **Opening a folder in the sidebar.** Selecting a folder now refreshes just that folder's chats rather than rebuilding the whole folder tree, and a folder that is empty or still loading says so instead of showing nothing. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2e939874904e1ae54d02b8bc6d745931a8e1f673), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/86b7bf1f7e11109816b0d16ada708c637b50c520)
+- ⏲️ **Changing an automation through chat.** Asking a model to change one thing about an automation no longer moves it out of its folder or drops its model as a side effect of leaving those unmentioned. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/90bb94abf9a8c6fbb87c72952295ae39d2ad98e5)
 - 🔂 **Automations that run a set number of times.** An automation asked to run a limited number of times is now rejected unless it says when to start counting from, rather than being accepted and then running indefinitely. [#27781](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27781), [#27780](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27780)
 - 📅 **Editing a calendar event through chat.** Asking a model to change one thing about an event, such as its title, no longer fails or wipes the details you did not mention. [#27777](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27777), [#27776](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27776)
-- 🧹 **Session cleanup on multi-instance setups.** The instance doing the periodic session cleanup now keeps renewing its claim on that job while it waits, so two instances no longer end up reaping sessions at the same time. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/939bcdb79e3dcad2278f1e7f4f517a3f2f36f3ec)
+- 🧹 **Session cleanup on multi-instance setups.** The instance doing the periodic session cleanup now keeps its claim on that job alive between passes, so an idle deployment stops logging a renewal warning every two minutes and the claim no longer lapses for half of every cycle. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/939bcdb79e3dcad2278f1e7f4f517a3f2f36f3ec), [#27762](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27762)
+- 🏠 **Starting folder in the file browser.** Reopening the file browser now keeps the folder you were in, instead of the breadcrumb losing its starting point and jumping you elsewhere. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/52c5e3b20d3cd8c3a15db50e2cc75bbd6e82068e)
+- 🩺 **Repairing default model settings.** Instances whose stored default and pinned model settings had been written in the wrong shape are corrected on startup, so those defaults take effect again. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/5c05608e3ac0aefce8c1eed18c3e205c61f6b6fe)
+- 🧽 **Cleaner conversation history for the model.** Internal bookkeeping attached to your messages, such as attachment records and token counts, is no longer sent to the model along with the conversation. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a32a17965ca36f730ebf5ff53a2a8e17082b61a6)
+- 🙈 **Download options only for administrators.** The model picker no longer offers to fetch a model from a connected server to people who are not administrators and could not have carried it out. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b4738d1a2e6af1ce20adb322fc6d2aa2c9407901)
+- ⏹️ **Stopping a reply that is waiting.** The stop button now ends a reply that is sitting waiting for you, such as one paused on a tool approval, rather than leaving the conversation stuck part way through. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f7767d6be774720e16265c6d016bf6a24a1a8759)
 - 👤 **Fallback profile pictures.** A profile picture that fails to load, such as one belonging to a deleted account, now falls back to the default avatar instead of showing clipped placeholder text beside the message. [#28270](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28270), [#28269](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28269)
 - ⏱️ **Unanswered prompts in tools.** On deployments that set "WEBSOCKET_EVENT_CALLER_TIMEOUT", a question a tool asks you that goes unanswered now reports a timeout rather than an empty reply, and waiting too long no longer risks disconnecting a tab that is still open. [#28311](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28311)
 
 ### Changed
 
 - ⚠️ **Database Migrations**: This release includes database schema changes; we strongly recommend backing up your database and all associated data before upgrading in production environments. If you are running a multi-worker, multi-server, or load-balanced deployment, all instances must be updated simultaneously, rolling updates are not supported and will cause application failures due to schema incompatibility.
+- 💾 **Saving replies as they stream.** The setting that controlled whether each piece of a reply was written to the database as it arrived no longer has any effect, because a reply in progress is now held outside the database and written once when it finishes. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a1579a01ff43cacb357269707d36267ad35e01d6)
 - 📊 **Default usage statistics range.** Usage statistics now cover the past two years by default for everyone, instead of starting from the date the account was created. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8dbbc206c5a0706789722c42827479e5db10bb2b)
 
 ## [0.11.0] - 2026-07-27