# open-webui v0.11.1

- Product: open-webui (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-webui)
- Vendor: open-webui
- Date: 2026-08-25
- Version: v0.11.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-webui/releases/v0.11.1

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- **added** — Human in the loop tool approval where administrators can enable requiring manual approval for tool execution in conversations
- **added** — Built-in tool allowing models to pause and ask up to three multiple-choice questions before continuing, with questions persisting across reloads
- **added** — Agents can now display terminal files directly in replies with preview and download button instead of file paths
- **added** — Interface setting to choose whether displayed files open in the reply or in the files pane
- **changed** — Streaming rebuilt to send only new text pieces instead of resending entire messages, reducing data transmission by up to 1000x on very long replies
- **changed** — In-progress replies are now kept on server on Redis-backed deployments, allowing continuation after page refresh
- **changed** — Removed assembly of disabled log text throughout the application to improve performance of message sending, file operations, searches, and admin pages
- **changed** — Model list lookups for title generation, tag suggestions, and autocomplete now fetch in a single request to improve responsiveness on busy instances
- **changed** — Log export now prepares each line once instead of twice for deployments with ENABLE_OTEL and ENABLE_OTEL_LOGS enabled

###### 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 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)
- 🙋‍♂️ **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)
- 🖇 **Agents can now display terminal files directly.** A model can now show a file it made in a terminal directly in its reply, with a preview and a download button, instead of describing a path that led nowhere when clicked, and a new interface setting chooses whether these open in the reply or in the files pane. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/78f48a21eef330c0b78c33f2b5fc2169b084997c), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e623c02acc70c4ee5d7f2eb2f32d9b7f39287663), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f64c0c87e8d1bfdbe060ea5e5a3dee24c0323657), [#27650](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/27650)
- 📶 **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, cutting the data sen

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