v1.8.1

abi/screenshot-to-codev1.8.1Mar 11, 2026by lfnovo

AI Summary

This release adds internationalization support for Bengali, podcast language support, and upgrades the default Azure API version. It also resolves critical Tiktoken network errors for offline Docker deployments and fixes issues with SurrealDB.

Key Highlights

Added Bengali (bn-IN) i18n support
Fixed Tiktoken network errors for offline/air-gapped environments
Fixed SurrealDB getting stuck

New Features

Bengali language support
Podcast language support
Azure API version upgrade for model testing

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