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v0.6.29
Sep 17, 2025 (5mo ago)
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[0.6.29] - 2025-09-17
Added
- 🎨 The chat input menu has been completely overhauled with a revolutionary new design, consolidating attachments under a unified '+' button, organizing integrations into a streamlined options menu, and introducing powerful, interactive selectors for attaching chats, notes, and knowledge base items. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 🤖 AI models can now be mentioned in channels to automatically generate responses, enabling multi-model conversations where mentioned models participate directly in threaded discussions with full context awareness. Commit
- 💬 The Channels feature now utilizes the modern rich text editor, including support for '/', '@', and '#' command suggestions. Commit, Commit
- 📎 Channel message input now supports direct paste functionality for images and files from the clipboard, streamlining content sharing workflows. Commit
- ⚙️ Models can now be configured with default features (Web Search, Image Generation) and filters that automatically activate when a user selects the model. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 💬 The ability to reference other chats as context within a conversation was added via the attachment menu. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 🎨 The command suggestion UI for prompts ('/'), models ('@'), and knowledge ('#') was completely overhauled with a more responsive and keyboard-navigable interface. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- 👥 User and channel suggestions were added to the mention system, enabling '@' mentions for users and models, and '#' mentions for channels with searchable user lookup and clickable navigation. Commit, Commit, Commit
- 📁 Folder functionality was enhanced with custom background image support, improved drag-and-drop capabilities for moving folders to root level, and better menu interactions. Commit, Commit, Commit, Commit
- ☁️ OneDrive integration configuration now supports selecting between personal and work/school account types via ENABLE_ONEDRIVE_PERSONAL and ENABLE_ONEDRIVE_BUSINESS environment variables. #17354, Commit, Docs:#697
- ⚡ Mermaid.js is now dynamically loaded on demand, significantly reducing first-screen loading time and improving initial page performance. #17476, #17477
- ⚡ Azure MSAL browser library is now dynamically loaded on demand, reducing initial bundle size by 730KB and improving first-screen loading speed. #17479
- ⚡ CodeEditor component is now dynamically loaded on demand, reducing initial bundle size by 1MB and improving first-screen loading speed. #17498
- ⚡ Hugging Face Transformers library is now dynamically loaded on demand, reducing initial bundle size by 1.9MB and improving first-screen loading speed. #17499
- ⚡ jsPDF and html2canvas-pro libraries are now dynamically loaded on demand, reducing initial bundle size by 980KB and improving first-screen loading speed. #17502
- ⚡ Leaflet mapping library is now dynamically loaded on demand, reducing initial bundle size by 454KB and improving first-screen loading speed. #17503
- 📊 OpenTelemetry metrics collection was enhanced to properly handle HTTP 500 errors and ensure metrics are recorded even during exceptions. Commit
- 🔒 OAuth token retrieval logic was refactored, improving the reliability and consistency of authentication handling across the backend. Commit
- 💻 Code block output processing was improved to handle Python execution results more reliably, along with refined visual styling and button layouts. Commit
- ⚡ Message input processing was optimized to skip unnecessary text variable handling when input is empty, improving performance. Commit
- 📄 Individual chat PDF export was added to the sidebar chat menu, allowing users to export single conversations as PDF documents with both stylized and plain text options. Commit
- 🛠️ Function validation was enhanced with improved valve validation and better error handling during function loading and synchronization. Commit, Commit
- 🔔 Notification toast interaction was enhanced with drag detection to prevent accidental clicks and added keyboard support for accessibility. Commit
- 🗓️ Improved date and time formatting dynamically adapts to the selected language, ensuring consistent localization across the UI. #17409, Commit
- 🔠 Toggle filters in the chat input options menu are now sorted alphabetically for easier navigation. Commit
- 🎨 Long chat titles in the sidebar are now truncated to prevent text overflow and maintain a clean layout. #17356
- 🎨 Temporary chat interface design was refined with improved layout and visual consistency. Commit, Commit, Commit
- 🎨 Download icon consistency was improved across the entire interface by standardizing the icon component used in menus, functions, tools, and export features. Commit
- 🎨 Settings interface was enhanced with improved iconography and reorganized the 'Chats' section into 'Data Controls' for better clarity. Commit
- 🔄 Various improvements were implemented across the frontend and backend to enhance performance, stability, and security.
- 🌐 Translations for Finnish, German, Kabyle, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Spanish (Spain), and Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) were enhanced and expanded.
Fixed
- 📚 Knowledge base permission logic was corrected to ensure private collection owners can access their own content when embedding bypass is enabled. #17432, Commit
- ⚙️ Connection URL editing in Admin Settings now properly saves changes instead of reverting to original values, fixing issues with both Ollama and OpenAI-compatible endpoints. #17435, Commit
- 📊 Usage information collection from Google models was corrected to handle providers that send usage data alongside content chunks instead of separately. #17421, Commit
- ⚙️ Settings modal scrolling issue was resolved by moving image compression controls to a dedicated modal, preventing the main settings from becoming scrollable out of view. #17474, Commit
- 📁 Folder click behavior was improved to prevent accidental actions by implementing proper double-click detection and timing delays for folder expansion and selection. Commit
- 🔐 Access control component reliability was improved with better null checking and error handling for group permissions and private access scenarios. Commit, Commit
- 🔗 The citation modal now correctly displays and links to external web page sources in addition to internal documents. Commit
- 🔗 Web and YouTube attachment handling was fixed, ensuring their content is now reliably processed and included in the chat context for retrieval. Commit
- 📂 Large file upload failures are resolved by correcting the processing logic for scenarios where document embedding is bypassed. Commit
- 🌐 Rich text input placeholder text now correctly updates when the interface language is switched, ensuring proper localization. #17473, Commit
- 📊 Llama.cpp server timing metrics are now correctly parsed and displayed by fixing a typo in the response handling. #17350, Commit
- 🛠️ Filter functions with file_handler configuration now properly handle messages without file attachments, preventing runtime errors. #17423
- 🔔 Channel notification delivery was fixed to properly handle background task execution and user access checking. Commit
Changed
- 📝 Prompt template variables are now optional by default instead of being forced as required, allowing flexible workflows with optional metadata fields. #17447, Commit, Docs:#696
- 🛠️ Direct external tool servers now require explicit user selection from the input interface instead of being automatically included in conversations, providing better control over tool usage. Commit, Commit
- 📺 Widescreen mode option was removed from Channels interface, with all channel layouts now using full-width display. Commit
- 🎛️ The plain textarea input option was deprecated, and the custom text editor is now the standard for all chat inputs. Commit
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