"RAG_METADATA_MAX_VALUE_CHARS" ships unset, and unset means no bound at all, so the limit only protects the deployments that already knew to configure it. A small Office document is a zip archive, and one crafted to expand enormously during extraction can turn a few hundred kilobytes into gigabytes of metadata held in memory; uploading it a handful of times is enough to exhaust a server and take Open WebUI down with it.
When no explicit limit is configured, the bound now follows "RAG_FILE_MAX_SIZE" instead of being absent, on the reasoning that a document cannot legitimately carry more metadata than the file itself is allowed to be. That keeps the number from being an arbitrary guess: it is whatever the administrator already decided an upload may weigh. Setting "RAG_METADATA_MAX_VALUE_CHARS" explicitly still wins, and a deployment that leaves both unset is unchanged, which is the same posture the upload limit itself takes.
"RAG_FILE_MAX_SIZE" is in MB and is treated as unset when it is zero, matching how the document loader already reads it.
With delta streaming most websocket frames are tiny per-token deltas, and
per-message-deflate pays zlib work on every outgoing frame per subscriber for
near-zero gain there; under heavy streaming that shows up as measurable server
CPU. The frames that still benefit are the rare large ones (final message,
sources), and even a 100k token message is only a few hundred KB uncompressed,
which any network delivers without noticeable delay.
UVICORN_WS_PER_MESSAGE_DEFLATE=false (default true, current behavior) disables
the extension in every entry point: open-webui serve and dev, start.sh both
invocations, start_windows.bat and dev.sh. Verified against a running
instance: with the flag off the server declines the client-offered
permessage-deflate extension, with defaults it still negotiates it.
Presence tracking writes each user's last_active_at on every authenticated request, every API key request and every websocket heartbeat. The throttle for it already exists but ships unset, and unset means no throttle at all, so a stock deployment pays one UPDATE plus COMMIT per user per request. The 30 second frontend heartbeat alone is 2 write transactions per minute per open tab, before any actual UI traffic.
Defaulting the throttle to 60 seconds collapses that to at most one write per user per worker per minute. Presence is only ever read at minute granularity, so nothing visible changes.
60 rather than the 300 to 500 the docs currently suggest, because a user counts as active for 3 minutes after their last write and that window is hardcoded in the backend and again in the frontend. Any interval at or above 180 seconds makes people who are actively using the instance drop out of the active user count. Letting the window follow the interval instead would need the value shipped to the client, so that is a separate change.
0 still disables the throttle, and now costs nothing at all: the decorator returns the undecorated function instead of a wrapper that re-checks a constant on every call.
Closes#28165
Since v0.11.0 shipped aiodns, aiohttp silently switched every outbound request from the OS resolver to c-ares. On some Windows hosts the bundled c-ares 1.34.6 (pycares 5) discovers only 127.0.0.1:53 as nameserver, so every external provider lookup fails (#28013). In Docker the long-lived c-ares channel intermittently stops resolving container names while Docker's embedded DNS keeps answering, which wipes the Ollama model list and fails all in-flight chats with a misleading "Model not found" (#28215).
This restores the pre-0.11 ThreadedResolver (OS resolver) by default and gates the c-ares path behind a new env var, AIOHTTP_CLIENT_ASYNC_DNS_RESOLVER, off by default. The event-loop DNS perf improvement is now opt-in for deployments whose resolver setup is known to work with c-ares, instead of a process-wide side effect of the package being installed.
aiodns is also downgraded and pinned to 3.6.1 (pycares<5), the last release before the broken c-ares 1.34.6 build, so opting in does not hit the Windows regression. The hardcoded AsyncResolver in the Mistral OCR loader now follows the same switch. Simply removing aiodns instead was not an option because opting in would then be impossible, and #28215 showed the Docker failure is c-ares itself, not aiodns 4.x.
Raising GLOBAL_LOG_LEVEL to WARNING buys quieter output but not less work: 241 INFO call sites interpolate their payload into an f-string before the logging call gets to drop it. The heaviest is get_doc, which logs every chunk id and metadata dict in a collection, so on the full-context retrieval path that is the entire knowledge base, once per chat request.
That one line at WARNING, CPython 3.12:
| knowledge base | payload | before | after |
| -------------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| top-k of 3 | 1.2 kB | 3.8 us | 0.07 us |
| 500 chunks | 201 kB | 583.6 us | 0.08 us |
| 5000 chunks | 2.0 MB | 5.8 ms | 0.15 us |
The lazy form log.info('query_doc:result %s %s', result.ids, result.metadatas) hands the payload to record.getMessage(), which the InterceptHandler only reaches once a record has passed the level check. Output at INFO is byte-identical. Two sites that already built their message eagerly, one str concat and one % operator, move to the same lazy form.
Swap the JSON encoder/decoder used across the backend from stdlib json to
orjson when ENABLE_ORJSON is set — HTTP request bodies, JSONResponse
bodies, upstream provider responses, SSE chunks, and socket.io/Redis
payloads.
The flag defaults to off, in which case the app uses stdlib json and
engineio's codec verbatim, so default behaviour is unchanged.
- json_codec exports JSONCodec (stdlib json or the orjson codec) and
SOCKETIO_JSON (engineio's codec or the orjson codec); call sites import
JSONCodec and stay implementation-agnostic
- apply_orjson_http_json() is a no-op when the flag is off, leaving
starlette's Request.json / JSONResponse.render untouched
- the orjson codec falls back to the stdlib for inputs orjson rejects
(non-str dict keys, ints beyond 64 bits, NaN literals)
- orjson is imported only when the flag is on
- FastAPI(default_response_class=...) is deliberately not used: an
explicit default disables the Pydantic direct-to-bytes fast path for
response_model routes
* feat: cap profile image data URI size to bound model/avatar bloat
validate_profile_image_url() validated data-URI format (MIME allowlist,
SVG rejection, scheme checks) but never its length, so a valid
data:image/...;base64,<huge> passed for both custom-model icons and user
avatars. Large inline images bloat Postgres and the Redis MODELS hash and
degrade model-list latency.
Add PROFILE_IMAGE_MAX_DATA_URI_SIZE (default 256 KiB, 0 disables) and
reject oversized data URIs in the shared validator, so both model meta
(ModelMeta.profile_image_url) and user avatars (UpdateProfileForm) are
bounded at one chokepoint. ModelMeta already clears invalid values to
None on read, so existing oversized icons stop propagating into the
MODELS hash on the next refresh.
Fixes#25468
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* fix: default PROFILE_IMAGE_MAX_DATA_URI_SIZE to None (no cap)
Per review: opt-in rather than a 256 KiB default. Unset leaves data URIs
uncapped; the validator already skips the check on a falsy value.
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The 't0p-s3cr3t' default was dead code on every supported startup path:
start.sh, start_windows.bat and `open-webui serve` all set or
auto-generate WEBUI_SECRET_KEY before the backend imports env.py. It was
only ever reachable by invoking uvicorn directly, which is unsupported
and unsafe (the app would then sign tokens/cookies with a public,
hardcoded key). It also keeps getting reported as a vulnerability because
it looks dangerous, even though it is unreachable in practice.
Drop the fallback (default to '') so an unset key is caught by the
existing WEBUI_AUTH guard, and replace the vague error with a clear,
actionable message explaining that the key is a hard requirement and how
the supported start methods provide it. Exit cleanly via SystemExit
instead of raising a ValueError traceback.
WEBUI_AUTH=False keeps working unchanged (key defaults to '').
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