v1.2.0

lfnovo/open-notebookv1.2.0Dec 2, 2025by lfnovo

AI Summary

Command Palette for keyboard-driven navigation, Azure OpenAI modality-specific configuration, and improved chat experience with compact numbered citations.

Key Highlights

Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+K) for quick navigation
Azure OpenAI modality-specific configuration
Compact chat references with numbered citations
Fixed URL params in search page
UTF-8 encoding fix for migrations

New Features

Command Palette for quick access to notebooks, sources, and search
Azure OpenAI configuration for different deployments for LLM, embeddings, and speech
Numbered citations in chat for cleaner reference handling
Environment variables loading moved to application entry point

Full Release Notes

# Release v1.2.0

**Release Date:** December 2025

This release brings significant UI/UX improvements, better Azure OpenAI support, and various bug fixes and refinements since v1.1.0 (October 24, 2025).

## Highlights

- **Command Palette**: New keyboard-driven navigation for quick access to notebooks, sources, and search
- **Azure OpenAI Support**: Modality-specific configuration for Azure deployments
- **Improved Chat Experience**: Compact references with numbered citations

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## Features

- **Command Palette for Quick Navigation** - Press `Cmd/Ctrl+K` to quickly navigate and search across the application (#288) - @lfnovo
- **Azure OpenAI Modality-Specific Configuration** - Configure different Azure OpenAI deployments for LLM, embeddings, and speech (#243) - @lfnovo
- **Compact Chat References** - Chat now displays numbered citations for cleaner reference handling (#220) - @lfnovo

## Bug Fixes

- **URL Params in Search Page** - Fixed command palette navigation to properly handle URL parameters (#289) - @lfnovo
- **UTF-8 Encoding for Migrations** - Fixed async migrations file reading to use UTF-8 encoding (#279) - @kuroshiro1902
- **UI Scrolling and API Routes** - Fixed UI scrolling behavior and API route ordering issues (#253) - @lfnovo
- **Hide Sources Notes** - Fixed display of source notes (#273) - @lfnovo

## Refactoring

- **Environment Variables Loading** - Moved environment variables loading to application entry point for better initialization (#283) - @kuroshiro1902
- **Duplicate Model Validation** - Optimized duplicate model validation and improved error handling (#219) - @lfnovo

## Documentation

- **SSL Verification Configuration** - Added documentation for SSL verification configuration for local providers (#281) - @lfnovo
- **Contribution Workflow** - Improved contribution workflow and project governance documentation (#246) - @lfnovo

## Maintenance

- **Podcast Transcripts** - Improved podcast transcript generation (#221) - @lfnovo
- **Esperanto Update** - Bumped Esperanto for Anthropic on LangChain support (#244) - @lfnovo
- **Security: js-yaml** - Updated js-yaml from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 in frontend (#263) - @dependabot

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## Full Changelog

**v1.1.0...v1.2.0**: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook/compare/v1.1.0...main