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lfnovo/open-notebookv1.8.2Apr 6, 2026by lfnovo

AI Summary

Added new AI providers (DashScope/MiniMax) and Bengali support, with fixes for source persistence and podcast directory names.

Key Highlights

  • New AI providers: DashScope (Qwen) and MiniMax.
  • Bengali (bn-IN) language support.
  • Source asset persistence fixes (failed sources now persist).
  • Source list auto-refresh after adding new sources.
  • Podcast directory names use UUID to fix filesystem errors.

Breaking Changes

  • Deprecated single-container Docker image.

New Features

  • Tiktoken offline handling (pre-downloads at build time).
  • Credential cascade delete (deleting credential removes linked models).
  • Source title preservation.

Full Release Notes

## What's New

### Features
- **DashScope (Qwen) & MiniMax provider support** — Two new AI providers via Esperanto v2.20.0: Alibaba Cloud's Qwen models and MiniMax models with 204K context (#725)
- **Bengali (bn-IN) language support** — Full i18n translation for Bengali (#643)

### Bug Fixes
- **Source asset persistence** — Failed sources now persist their asset (URL/file path), making them identifiable and retryable (#722)
- **Source title preservation** — User-set custom titles are no longer overwritten after background processing (#722)
- **Credential cascade delete** — Deleting a credential now automatically removes linked models instead of returning a 409 error (#722)
- **Source list auto-refresh** — Source list now updates automatically after adding a new source via URL, file upload, or text (#721)
- **Podcast directory names** — Uses UUID for episode directories, fixing filesystem errors with special characters in titles (#666)
- **Tiktoken offline handling** — API no longer crashes in air-gapped environments when tiktoken can't download encodings (#622)
- **SurrealDB healthcheck** — Removed incompatible healthcheck from Docker Compose that caused false-negative container status (#656)
- **Esperanto embedding fixes** — Bumped to v2.19.7 fixing base_url/api_key config issues across multiple embedding providers (#664, #665)

### Maintenance
- Upgraded default Azure API version to 2024-10-21 (#638)
- Deprecated single-container Docker image in favor of Docker Compose (#723)
- Dependency updates: langchain-core, fastmcp 3.x, Next.js 16.1.7, aiohttp, cryptography, and more

## Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! 🎉

- @dobberr (#656)
- @kunalk16 (#643)
- @orihatav (#622)

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook/compare/v1.8.1...v1.8.2