v1.8.1

OpenSignLabs/OpenSignv1.8.1Mar 11, 2026by lfnovo

AI Summary

This release introduces internationalization support for Bengali and enhances podcast capabilities. It addresses critical stability issues in offline Docker deployments and updates dependencies to improve overall performance.

Key Highlights

Added Bengali (bn-IN) i18n support
Added podcast language support via podcast-creator 0.12.0
Fixed Tiktoken network errors in offline/air-gapped Docker deployments
Fixed SurrealDB getting stuck

New Features

i18n support for Bengali
Podcast language support
Upgrade default Azure API version

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### Added
- i18n support for Bengali (bn-IN) (#643)
- Podcast language support via podcast-creator 0.12.0 (#645)
- Upgrade default Azure API version for model testing and fetching (#638)

### Fixed
- Tiktoken network errors in offline/air-gapped Docker deployments — pre-downloads encoding at build time (#264, #622)
- SurrealDB getting stuck (#656)

### Dependencies
- Bump esperanto to 2.19.5 (#657)
- Bump langgraph from 1.0.6 to 1.0.10rc1 (#658)
- Bump authlib from 1.6.6 to 1.6.7 (#649)
- Bump lxml-html-clean from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4 (#646)
- Bump rollup from 4.55.1 to 4.59.0 (#635)
- Bump minimatch in frontend (#634)
- Bump tar from 7.5.9 to 7.5.11 (#650, #659)

## Contributors

- @kunalk16
- @orihatav
- @dobberr
- @lfnovo

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook/compare/v1.8.0...v1.8.1