v1.8.1

alibaba/MNNv1.8.1Mar 11, 2026by lfnovo

AI Summary

This release focuses on localization support for Bengali, podcast creator integration, and dependency upgrades. It specifically addresses network errors in offline environments related to Tiktoken.

Key Highlights

Added Bengali (bn-IN) i18n support.
Integrated podcast-creator 0.12.0 for podcast language support.
Fixed Tiktoken network errors for offline/air-gapped Docker deployments by pre-downloading encoding.

New Features

Bengali language support
Podcast language support
Upgraded default Azure API version 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