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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ 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] - 2026-08-15
+## [0.11.1] - 2026-08-17
 
 ### Added
 
-- 🚦 **Human in the loop tool approval.** 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 in a saved conversation, by button or by keyboard shortcut, with your choice remembered for future conversations and automations, channel replies, and temporary chats 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), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/30f82788bc75e6965da3766e3bf43840dd971eed), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bbfdbd59f29e246db1d8b5c2401bc7b11aa32c99), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7fc5fa1ff3f6cd6f0efcbf847064ca8d21620ba6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/3eb65f47151af4fb4ccfaf33d6e77154546e7259)
-- 📶 **Streaming rebuilt from the ground up.** A reply now streams as small pieces of new text instead of resending the whole message so far with every update, so the data sent over a reply grows with its length rather than with its length squared, which on a server with many people chatting at once means far less processor time spent encoding, passing, and decoding those updates, far less load and memory on the shared cache that carries them between instances, and far less work in your browser, which no longer takes in the whole reply again and redraws the parts of it that have not changed on every update, 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, on deployments backed by Redis. [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)
+- 🚦 **Human in the loop tool approval.** 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 in a saved conversation, by button or by keyboard shortcut, with your choice remembered for this conversation and for future ones, switching back to running freely releasing anything already waiting, and automations, channel replies, and temporary chats 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), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/30f82788bc75e6965da3766e3bf43840dd971eed), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/bbfdbd59f29e246db1d8b5c2401bc7b11aa32c99), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/7fc5fa1ff3f6cd6f0efcbf847064ca8d21620ba6), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/3eb65f47151af4fb4ccfaf33d6e77154546e7259), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/62fc436999ad32e82d1405ac14d1f03e0f0341ec)
+- 📶 **Streaming rebuilt from the ground up.** A reply now streams as small pieces of new text instead of resending the whole message so far with every update, so the data sent over a reply grows with its length rather than with its length squared, which on a server with many people chatting at once means far less processor time spent encoding, passing, and decoding those updates, far less load and memory on the shared cache that carries them between instances, and far less work in your browser, which no longer takes in the whole reply again and redraws the parts of it that have not changed on every update, 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, on deployments backed by Redis. [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), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/3e186abdd91edee9e97e43c9b345714643a84cf5)
 - 🔍 **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)
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 📢 **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 in a saved conversation, 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)
 - 🧭 **More from the message box.** The slash menu now offers settings and, in a new chat, a toggle for temporary chat, alongside the commands that were already there. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a5ea732c1e3d0d1f70a7e4b6a20c30c336114784)
+- 🚨 **Being told when a file fails to process.** A file that cannot be processed for a knowledge base now raises a notification naming the file and what went wrong, and keeps that reason on the file, instead of quietly being marked as failed. [#27666](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27666), [#6311](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/6311), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/1a376ac17fa0c3f957656a997b6f8ffacb1f6f30)
+- 🔎 **Searching tools and skills in chat.** The integrations menu now has a search box for tools and for skills, so a long list can be narrowed by name instead of scrolled through. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/954613944b317a78d5929456ae1388543aa052c8)
+- 🪧 **Profile changes from single sign-on.** A name, email address, or picture updated from an identity provider at sign-in now raises an event naming what changed, and the rest of the session uses the updated record rather than a stale copy. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/927ce0eae67af1b4a856d3e82fba0601c3b40d02)
+- 📯 **Group changes from single sign-on.** Group memberships added or removed when someone signs in through an identity provider, and groups created automatically along the way, now raise the same events as the equivalent change made by an administrator or over directory sync. [#27657](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27657)
+- 🪛 **Naming background worker threads.** A new "THREAD_POOL_THREAD_NAME_PREFIX" setting labels the threads that background work runs in, so they can be told apart when reading a profile or a thread dump. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4ec6ee14418edd04eaba9e34bd5868453f61df40)
+- 🪶 **Lighter page loads.** Several small requests the interface makes on every page load, along with a few administrative ones, no longer set up database access they never used, which took several times longer than the rest of the request put together. [#28178](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28178)
 - 🪟 **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)
@@ -67,6 +73,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🔑 **Signing in with some identity providers.** Logging in through a provider that adds its own vendor-specific information to the header of the sign-in token now completes, rather than failing at the final step with a message claiming the email or password was wrong. [#28065](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28065), [#28062](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28062)
 - 🔌 **Role changes taking effect at once.** Changing someone's role now ends their live sessions no matter how the change was made, whether by a directory sync, an identity provider, a trusted header, or deleting the account, so permissions from their old role cannot linger, and their browser reconnects on its own. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ce3c175e260709f359d7e6cbb3132f0572098b95)
 - 🛑 **Memory permission being respected.** Taking away someone's memory permission now also stops their stored memories being added to the context of their conversations, which one path had continued doing regardless. [#27668](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27668)
+- 🔍 **Listing a single connection's models.** Asking for the models or version of one particular connection is now restricted to administrators, and a request naming a specific backend is checked against the models that backend actually serves even where the access control bypass is turned on. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/16f118d77ad9d68c64116f94551ffb14bf8b2abd)
 - ⚖️ **Sharing defaults matching what was configured.** On instances upgraded from older versions, public sharing of tools and notes no longer shows as switched on in the admin panel, and saving any unrelated permission no longer grants everyone a capability that was never enabled. [#27716](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27716), [#27715](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27715)
 - 🗂️ **Folder permissions when starting a chat.** Starting a conversation filed into a folder now checks that you are allowed to write to that folder, a check the message sending path had been skipping, and every place a chat can be filed now treats ownership, shared access, and unknown folders the same way. [#28366](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28366)
 - 🪧 **Clearer attachment failures.** A link that cannot be read now says so and names the link, and a YouTube video whose transcript is refused explains why and points at the proxy setting that exists for it, instead of both being reported as a knowledge base error. [#28362](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28362), [#28361](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28361)
@@ -130,13 +137,54 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🧽 **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)
 - 🙈 **Needless request from the model picker.** Opening the model picker as a non-administrator no longer fires a request to an administrator-only settings endpoint that was always refused. [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)
+- 🏷️ **Folder names with unusual characters.** Naming a folder is no longer refused because another folder's name happens to be similar, and a name ending in a backslash no longer fails outright on PostgreSQL, because names are now compared exactly rather than treated as a search pattern. [#28695](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28695), [#28694](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28694)
+- 🤔 **Reasoning carried back to Ollama.** A model's earlier thinking is now passed back to Ollama in its own native field rather than pasted into the message as tagged text, so reasoning models keep their train of thought across turns. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/3258330729942b533dc5fe141e876cee7e5eb40d)
+- 📎 **Default pinned models taking effect.** Changing the default pinned models now reaches people who have never chosen their own, where simply having opened the interface once was enough to freeze the list they first saw, and reordering a pin no longer moves the wrong one or reopens the sidebar section afterwards. [#28069](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28069), [#28067](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/discussions/28067)
+- ✏️ **Editing other people's channel messages.** Asking a model to work on a message in a channel now only applies to your own messages, where write access to the channel had been enough to reach anyone's. [#28631](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28631)
+- 🍪 **Signed-in tool servers.** A tool server that relies on your session now receives the credentials belonging to its own connection, rather than whichever were most recently prepared. [#28630](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28630)
+- 🏗️ **Editing a folder from its page.** Renaming a folder, changing its icon, creating a subfolder, or deleting it from the folder's own page now updates the sidebar straight away, instead of leaving the old name and icon there, and the new subfolder missing, until a reload. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/a40f6f2860b49b4c7f11e369f11bd46e9451eabf), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/736e38338ede1fca5af0829e35585a72f8517d32), [#28692](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28692), [#28690](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28690)
+- 📣 **Long channel names in the sidebar.** A channel with a long name no longer squeezes its own menu button out of the row. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b5da50f3df51786972010c75c7736d5f95362e58), [#28671](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28671), [#28670](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28670)
+- 📬 **Mark as unread in chat search.** Marking a chat unread from the search dialog now works and updates the sidebar, where the menu entry looked normal but did nothing at all. [#28136](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28136), [#28135](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28135)
+- ⬆️ **Scroll to top on the first click.** In a long chat where older messages had not been loaded yet, one click of scroll to top now reaches the first message instead of stopping short and needing a second. [#28659](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28659), [#28658](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28658)
+- 🔘 **Double bullets in the release notes.** Each entry in the what's new dialog shows a single bullet again, rather than two sitting at different heights. [#28676](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28676), [#28675](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28675)
+- 📚 **Knowledge search and shared files in chat.** A model searching your knowledge bases or reading a file shared with you through a group now works, where it had failed since 0.11.0 and quietly answered as though the knowledge were empty, affecting instances that forward user details to their embedding service and, for shared files, every instance regardless of settings. [#27642](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27642), [#27641](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27641)
+- 🔖 **Skill identifiers that cannot be reached.** Creating a skill whose identifier contains a character that is not allowed in a web address is now refused outright, rather than accepted and then permanently impossible to open, edit, turn off, delete, or recreate. [#27660](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27660), [#27655](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27655)
+- 🔤 **Model names on connections with a prefix.** A connection that adds a prefix to its model names now strips it before sending a request through the responses endpoint, where the prefixed name was passed on and rejected as unknown. [#28575](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28575), [#28574](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28574)
+- 🔓 **Turning on open sharing.** The open sharing permission can now be switched on in the default user permissions, where saving appeared to work but the setting was discarded and came back off. [#27609](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27609), [#27607](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27607)
+- 🖌️ **White boxes behind model icons.** Model icons with a transparent background no longer sit on a white square in the admin models list, matching how they already appeared everywhere else. [#27612](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27612), [#27611](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27611)
+- 🪞 **Matching the right account at sign-in.** Looking up an account by its identity provider details now matches the exact value, where the stored details were searched as loose text and a value contained within another's could be matched instead. [#28624](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28624)
+- 🔄 **Syncing a model catalogue more than once.** Syncing models now updates the ones that already exist, where any repeat of a previous sync silently did nothing at all while still reporting success. [#28036](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28036), [#28033](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28033)
+- 🕰️ **Saving a calendar event without a date.** Creating an event with no date now asks for one instead of accepting it. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f100edb70874808c93fab84eae1810595f9e9dc3)
+- 🔗 **Deleting a message in a looping chat.** Deleting a message no longer hangs when the conversation contains a cycle in its reply structure. [#28035](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28035)
+- 🫀 **Background work stopping on its own.** The routine that clears out stale sessions, the one that clears usage records, and the one that runs automations and calendar alerts can no longer be discarded while the application is running, which had silently stopped scheduled work with nothing reported, and all three now stop cleanly on shutdown. [#28053](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28053), [#28052](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28052)
+- ⚗️ **Reasoning carried between turns.** A model's earlier thinking is now recognised from providers that report it in their own nested field, and reasoning that cannot be sent back without a signature is left out rather than being passed on and rejected. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b6dc70c93b0d36e2659438e7a55aa8b21fee27f8)
+- 🛎️ **Settings quietly reverting.** Changing one interface setting no longer risks overwriting the others with whatever the page last had, and if your settings cannot be loaded at all you are now told, instead of the interface starting from a stale local copy. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ad8c79f68657bd3bcf5db6be650e498bb904b36b)
+- 🖲️ **Losing the collapsed sidebar.** With the sidebar collapsed, opening a chat no longer pushes the narrow sidebar strip off the edge of the screen, which left no way to reopen the sidebar short of shrinking the window to phone size. [#28501](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28501), [#28500](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28500)
+- 🧯 **Timers that fail without saying so.** A timer whose reply cannot be generated, such as one set against a model that has since been removed, is now recorded as failed with the reason, instead of being marked as completed while the reply never arrives. [#27785](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27785), [#27783](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27783)
+- 🖊️ **Message buttons in channels.** The buttons that appear when you hover a channel message now sit above the message rather than over its content, so they can be clicked on a message that starts with a code block or a table, and so the code and table controls stay clickable too. [#27737](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27737), [#27736](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27736)
+- 🔡 **Searching for non-English tags and text.** Searching workspace models by tag, or prompts and automations by their contents, now finds entries containing characters outside the English alphabet, where roughly half were missed depending on which settings were in force when each one was saved. [#28399](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28399)
+- 🔭 **Searching the calendar without an end date.** Asking a model to search your calendar without naming an end date now works on PostgreSQL, where the open-ended range was too large for the database to accept and the search failed outright. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/9550731cc17759f6862595b8cd849ae48695b5c1), [#27717](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27717)
+- 🫧 **Attachments replaced by a loading dot.** Pinning a channel message, or otherwise updating one, no longer replaces its attachment with a loading indicator that never resolves until you reload or leave the channel. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/76d01602950a9e40823b53278557708d5bcd1036), [#27734](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27734), [#27731](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27731)
+- 🛠️ **Empty tool and terminal server lists.** An instance with no tool servers or no terminal servers configured no longer rebuilds that empty list on every request that needs it, and a cache that has simply not been filled yet no longer logs an error suggesting the stored value is broken. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f1a64ccfc2eb2a58086c55fe413a455bb488c35a), [#28568](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28568)
+- ⚓ **Starting up as a non-root user.** Deployments that run the container as a non-root user, such as Kubernetes setups using runAsNonRoot, start again, where a bundled speech model file that only root could read had stopped them since 0.11.0. [#27651](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27651), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/0480ca9653f0d566eaedadf0af0d785a9938480b)
+- 📋 **Finding notes shared read only.** A note shared publicly for reading now appears in the read only view of your notes, where it was readable by anyone with the link but listed nowhere at all. [#27637](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27637), [#27487](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27487)
+- 🫂 **Signing in from another application.** Signing in through an application that exchanges a token from your identity provider now applies your role and group memberships the same way signing in through the browser does, and an account whose provider sends no role keeps the one it has rather than being reset to the default. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/d799e81edbdc971c6deb096b6474cd95b93504bf), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e9684458125c3202ebc3378aef32f0b6015171d8)
+- 🗄️ **Empty models section in the sidebar.** The models section no longer appears with nothing in it when every pinned model has since been removed, renamed, or hidden. [#27634](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/27634), [#27633](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27633)
+- 🚧 **The files pane reopening by itself.** With a terminal selected, closing the files pane now keeps it closed, where saving any setting reopened it, including something as incidental as picking an emoji for a folder. [#28693](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28693), [#28691](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28691)
+- 🚰 **Watching file processing tying up the database.** Waiting for a file or a knowledge base to finish processing no longer holds a database connection open for as long as the page is watching, which on busy instances could use up every available connection and leave the rest of the application unable to reach the database. [#28183](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28183)
+- 🗜️ **Embedding settings for other providers.** Saving your embedding settings now writes only the provider you have selected, where it also overwrote the address and key stored for the other two, losing them if their fields were not filled in. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/87d9b7e84e71b097eadf1df4f9852359104f17ed)
+- ↔️ **Connectors in the side-by-side overview.** With the conversation overview laid out left to right, the lines between messages now join at the sides rather than the top and bottom, so they no longer cut across the boxes. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/6e468c5b9539d3b6057bab63d81e8d2974acff7b)
+- 💫 **Thinking indicator with the fade turned off.** Turning off the fade effect for streaming text no longer hides the thinking indicator and its spinner, which had made a reasoning model look as though it had already finished from the first moment it started. [#28559](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28559), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b1dc945bd6cf97a7067e603fc1b797301e626fb6)
+- 🈳 **Conversations compacted too early.** A conversation is no longer shortened at roughly half the size you configured, where cached input was counted twice on providers that report it separately, so a chat showing 39,000 tokens was treated as 77,000 against a 70,000 limit. [#28590](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/28590), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/0b27fa5e873c9f3cff7b14e4eeab8321bdd8970c)
 - 👤 **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.
+- 🏋️ **What "THREAD_POOL_SIZE" now sizes.** The setting now governs both of the pools that background work runs in, where it previously governed only one and the other was fixed at a small ceiling no setting could raise, so an instance that set it high will now use more threads than before, up to twice the configured value across the two pools, and one that relied on the old ceiling to hold thread use down should review it. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/4ec6ee14418edd04eaba9e34bd5868453f61df40)
 - 💾 **Saving replies as they stream.** The "ENABLE_REALTIME_CHAT_SAVE" setting 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)
+- 🎭 **Playwright web loader egress.** When a page is fetched with the Playwright loader, the page's own requests for its images, scripts, and stylesheets are now made by the Open WebUI backend instead of by the browser, so administrators using a remote browser through "PLAYWRIGHT_WS_URL" should expect that traffic to leave from the backend's address rather than the browser host, those using a private certificate authority should expect it to be trusted through "AIOHTTP_CLIENT_SSL_CERT_FILE" rather than the browser's own store, and those who set a proxy on the loader should know it no longer applies to these requests, which follow the environment's proxy settings instead. [#28634](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28634)
 - 📊 **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