docs: add arena default, build channel, model ID suggestions and twelve fixes to changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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).
 
-## [0.11.5] - 2026-10-04
+## [0.11.5] - 2026-10-05
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🎚️ **Separate switches for Tools, Functions and tool servers.** Administrators can now turn off workspace Tools, Functions or external tool servers on their own with "ENABLE_TOOLS", "ENABLE_FUNCTIONS" and "ENABLE_TOOL_SERVERS", so in-process plugins can be switched off while OpenAPI, MCP and Open Terminal servers keep working, or the other way round. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f50f9e6252209760d0b96f090766e91fb826ecba), [#31509](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31509)
 - 📬 **Message queue in channels.** Messages sent in a channel or thread while an earlier one is still sending or a file is still uploading now wait in a queue above the message box, where each can be sent right away, edited or removed, and they go out in order once their files are ready, where a message sent during an upload went out with a broken attachment. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/8a4547104c4f88c02b607ad7b6849dc22f377c28), [#31587](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31587)
 - 📄 **Copy button in the model JSON Preview.** The JSON Preview in the model editor now has a Copy button that copies the model's JSON to the clipboard. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/fe2c694915bf7915f7555620dd4bdd8c7f3c5f41)
+- 💡 **Model ID suggestions for connections.** After verifying a connection in the add or edit connection dialog, the model ID field suggests the models the server reports, leaving out ones already added. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/fd0749fba106db4809a2c72fc42538d249b8b519)
 - 🔄 **General improvements.** Various improvements were implemented across the application to enhance performance, stability, and security.
-- 🌐 **Translation updates.** Translations for German, Italian, Turkish, Persian, Indonesian, Catalan, French, Malay, Simplified Chinese and Hindi were enhanced and expanded.
+- 🌐 **Translation updates.** Translations for German, Italian, Turkish, Persian, Indonesian, Catalan, French, Malay, Simplified Chinese, Hindi and Japanese were enhanced and expanded.
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -200,6 +201,18 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🍪 **MCP OAuth sign-in with long scope lists.** Connecting an MCP tool server over OAuth 2.1 no longer fails with an "invalid or expired state" error after signing in when the server asks for many scopes, such as the Google Workspace MCP server, as the session cookie no longer grows past the browser's size limit. [#31894](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31894), [#26382](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/26382)
 - ⏳ **Older responses stop loading on chat open.** Opening a chat with no generation running now shows every unfinished response as finished, with its copy and regenerate buttons, where only the newest one was repaired and older ones from cancelled or interrupted generations kept a loading cursor forever; responses waiting for the user to answer a tool's question are left as they are. [#31895](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31895), [#14806](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/14806)
 - 🫙 **Chats work again after an empty reply.** A reply that was stopped or failed before the model sent any text is no longer sent back to the model with later messages, so providers that reject empty assistant messages no longer refuse every new request in that chat, and chats already stuck this way work again on their next message. [#31892](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31892), [#25083](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/25083)
+- 🗜️ **Images inside a chat no longer trigger compaction.** Images stored inside the chat itself, such as in chats from older versions or temporary chats, are no longer counted as text when estimating how full the context is, so a single image no longer pushes a chat over the compaction threshold or makes the context usage indicator jump. [#31915](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31915), [#31913](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31913)
+- ➗ **Inline math next to dashes.** Inline math written directly next to an em dash or en dash, with either $...$ or \(...\), now renders in chat replies instead of showing as plain text. [#31901](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31901)
+- 🔦 **Web searches where no page loads.** A web search where none of the result pages could be loaded now says so, where it reported an embedding configuration failure. [#31859](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31859), [#29327](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/29327)
+- 🏅 **Private arena models for admins.** Arena models left private with no access grants are now visible to administrators in the model selector, can be chatted with and show their profile image, even with the admin access bypass turned off, where they disappeared for everyone. [#31858](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31858), [#30013](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/30013)
+- 🦙 **GGUF uploads to Ollama create the model.** Uploading a GGUF file in Manage Ollama now creates the model in both File Mode and URL Mode, named after the file, where the file reached Ollama but no model appeared; the Modelfile Content box was removed, as Ollama reads the template and stop sequences from the GGUF file. [#31862](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31862), [#31861](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31861)
+- 🛎️ **Ctrl+Shift+Enter with Ctrl+Enter to Send.** With "Ctrl+Enter to Send" on, Ctrl+Shift+Enter now only adds an empty message pair, where it also sent the typed message. [#31864](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31864), [#31468](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31468)
+- 🔍 **Edited replies stay searchable.** Chats can now be found in search by the new text of an edited reply, where editing a reply made it unsearchable by both its old and new text. [#31844](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31844), [#31471](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31471)
+- 🎤 **Web API dictation keeps listening.** With the Web API speech-to-text engine, dictation now only stops after two seconds of silence, where it could stop mid-sentence after a short pause. [#31891](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31891), [#19727](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/19727)
+- 📃 **Line breaks after reloading.** Lines separated by a single line break now stay on separate lines after reloading the page, when opening a chat by its URL and on shared chat links, where they ran together into one line. [#31869](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31869)
+- 📧 **Pasted emails sent once.** With Rich Text Input for Chat on, pasting an HTML email or newsletter laid out with nested tables no longer sends the same text repeated many times. [#31890](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31890), [#24657](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/24657)
+- 📊 **Daily Messages chart on All time.** The Daily Messages chart in Analytics now loads on All time when a message was saved without a timestamp, and messages after such a message in the same chat are counted again. [#31888](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31888), [#27316](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27316)
+- ↔️ **Mixed right-to-left and left-to-right lines.** Each line of a message now gets its own text direction and alignment, both while typing and in the sent message, so an English line under an Arabic one no longer shows its punctuation on the wrong side. [#31868](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31868), [#31827](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31827)
 
 ### Changed
 
@@ -207,6 +220,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - 🔌 **ENABLE_PLUGINS is the master switch.** Setting "ENABLE_PLUGINS=false" now turns off every kind of plugin, including external OpenAPI, MCP and Open Terminal servers and personal direct connections, and overrides "ENABLE_TOOLS", "ENABLE_FUNCTIONS" and "ENABLE_TOOL_SERVERS"; all four need a restart to take effect. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f50f9e6252209760d0b96f090766e91fb826ecba), [#31509](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/31509)
 - ⚡ **orjson on by default.** "ENABLE_ORJSON" now defaults to on, and setting "ENABLE_ORJSON=false" switches back to the standard JSON encoder. [#31616](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/31616)
 - 🔁 **Update Redis-backed instances together.** Where several servers share their websocket traffic through Redis, every instance should be updated at the same time, since live chat updates sent by an updated instance do not reach one still on an older version unless "WEBSOCKET_REDIS_ROOM_CHANNELS" is set to false. [#28818](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28818)
+- 🏟️ **Arena models off by default.** "ENABLE_EVALUATION_ARENA_MODELS" now defaults to off, so new installations no longer show the built-in arena model in the model selector; existing installations keep their current setting. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/77e6bc28932bff9f1d2e1aad5933a2736416e081)
+- 🔖 **Build shown next to the version.** The version in Settings shows "dev" and the commit for development builds and the commit for other non-release builds, and update checks and the update notification now only run on release builds. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/51f0e01258b92c77952d4534bb8ce8c618b2700c)
 
 ## [0.11.4] - 2026-09-21