v1.7.3

lfnovo/open-notebookv1.7.3Feb 18, 2026by lfnovo

AI Summary

Adds retry capabilities for failed podcast episodes with improved error handling and status tracking. Fixes podcast generation failures being incorrectly marked as completed.

Key Highlights

Retry button for failed podcast episodes in UI
Error details displayed on failed episodes
POST /podcasts/episodes/{id}/retry API endpoint
Fixed podcast status marking (failed vs completed)
Disabled automatic retries to prevent duplicates

New Features

Retry button for failed podcast episodes
Error details display on failed episodes
error_message field in podcast episode API responses
POST /podcasts/episodes/{id}/retry endpoint

Full Release Notes

This release makes a ton of fixed in the podcast creation functionality. It adds retry capabilities, improved Json parsing for Gemini, ability to retry failed generation and more. Hope you enjoy it. 

### Added
- Retry button for failed podcast episodes in the UI (#211, #218)
- Error details displayed on failed podcast episodes (#185, #355)
- `POST /podcasts/episodes/{id}/retry` API endpoint for re-submitting failed episodes
- `error_message` field in podcast episode API responses

### Fixed
- Podcast generation failures now correctly marked as "failed" instead of "completed" (#300, #335)
- Disabled automatic retries for podcast generation to prevent duplicate episode records (#302)

### Dependencies
- Bump podcast-creator to >= 0.11.2
- Bump esperanto to >= 2.19.4

### KNOWN ISSUES

The podcast creation process is still not respecting the new credentials config and relies on the ENV variables to work. This will be fixed in the next release.