# open-webui v0.11.2

- Product: open-webui (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-webui)
- Vendor: open-webui
- Date: 2026-08-31
- Version: v0.11.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases/tag/v0.11.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-webui/releases/v0.11.2

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- **added** — Word documents and slide decks produced in the terminal are now previewed as the finished document with a page strip containing numbered thumbnails for navigation
- **added** — Deployments without pipelines configured no longer incur setup work for pipelines on each chat message and background task
- **added** — Model list refreshes on deployments with multiple workers no longer have every worker rewrite the entire list to shared cache when unchanged
- **added** — Large Redis-backed websocket deployments now spend less time sweeping old sessions, reading session data from Redis, and checking outgoing websocket messages for file attachments
- **added** — Filter authors can now use request to adjust the payload right before each model call, including follow-up calls after tool use
- **added** — File previews on touch screens no longer show zoom buttons that overlap the preview
- **added** — Panel dividers can now be dragged on touchscreens or with a stylus, and mouse drags continue following the pointer when it leaves the window
- **added** — Interface settings now offer a font family field to select a custom font installed on your computer
- **added** — Accessibility mode now lifts the contrast of muted text, table text, icons, hover state colors, and sidebar highlight across light and dark themes
- **added** — Accessibility mode close button on the folder dialog now announces itself to screen readers
- **added** — Document and slide previews are now accessible to screen readers and reachable with the keyboard
- **added** — Polish, Simplified Chinese, German, Irish, Catalan, and Portuguese (Brazil) translations were expanded, corrected, and brought up to date
- **security** — Security and access-control fixes were included in this release

###### Added

- 🖼️ **Richer previews for terminal files.** Word documents and slide decks produced in the terminal are now previewed as the finished document rather than an approximation, and every document preview gains a page strip down the side with numbered thumbnails you can click to jump straight to a page, and the notice warning that a preview might differ from the download is gone now that it does not. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/061fb434328ea8365cc4961519e8adbe5ac7b0c1), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/9d95a0148b3180ba48186bc6928713f969a69047), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/ae549d3e4af672a63a809e8fe2a6c91e0bfc1067), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/78d8c9166f1b6626b9aa559a812183ce216eef4f), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/492ccf3ac0d9aec1f3f2bc6825a3e6d3b32aa0d1)
- ⚡ **Less overhead on every message.** Deployments without pipelines configured, which is the default, no longer pay setup work for them on each chat message and background task. [#29146](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29146)
- 🏎️ **Lighter model list refreshes.** On deployments running several workers, a refresh that finds the model list unchanged no longer has every worker rewrite the whole list to the shared cache, cutting the work and the traffic each refresh costs. [#29264](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29264)
- 🧵 **Smoother busy websocket servers.** Large Redis-backed websocket deployments now spend far less time sweeping old sessions, reading their own session data back from Redis, and checking every outgoing websocket message for file attachments Open WebUI does not send, so channel posts, collaboration updates, heartbeats, and live chat updates put less load on busy servers. [#28835](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28835), [#28180](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/28180)
- 🧰 **A new request filter step.** Filter authors can now use `request` to adjust the payload right before each model call, including follow-up calls after tool use, while existing `inlet`, `stream`, and `outlet` filters keep working as before. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2daa610cba514dfe2eae008b1fc440d4ddb0e470), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/2a4ef46ac86ada3447eb6d6c50fd4c1241eebd4d)
- 🤏 **More room in file previews on touch screens.** File previews on phones and tablets no longer show zoom buttons that sit over an already small preview, leaving pinch to zoom to do the job. [#29176](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/pull/29176), [#29152](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/29152)
- 👆 **Resizing panels by touch.** The divider beside the main sidebar or a side panel can now be dragged on a touchscreen or with a stylus, and a drag made with the mouse keeps following the pointer when it leaves the window. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/cfa2d25317b426c80dca43829afbf113eeccc365), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/f0ffa7508e75946434794941378675e0c7151eae), [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/e250be48ee16d71202651e4109a175910a6519bb)
- 🔤 **Choice of interface font.** Interface settings now offer a font family field where you can name a font installed on your computer and watch it apply across the interface as you type, with an empty field returning to the standard font. [Commit](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/commit/b9765fe97943831e17a68490cd01c70a6ccf1c43)
- ♿ **Wider accessibility mode coverage.** Accessibility mode now lifts the contrast of more of the interface, including muted text, table text, icons, the colours elements change to on hover, and the highlight behind sidebar and menu items you point at, so low-contrast areas meet the level the accessibility guidelines ask for in both light and dark themes, and the close button on the folder d

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