# open-notebook v1.8.2

- Product: open-notebook (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-notebook)
- Vendor: lfnovo
- Date: 2026-04-06
- Version: v1.8.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook/releases/tag/v1.8.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/open-notebook/releases/v1.8.2

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- **added** — Add DashScope (Qwen) and MiniMax AI provider support via Esperanto v2.20.0
- **added** — Add Bengali (bn-IN) language support with full i18n translation
- **fixed** — Failed sources now persist their asset (URL/file path) for identification and retry capability
- **fixed** — User-set custom source titles are no longer overwritten after background processing
- **fixed** — Deleting a credential now automatically removes linked models instead of returning a 409 error
- **fixed** — Source list now updates automatically after adding a new source via URL, file upload, or text
- **fixed** — Use UUID for podcast episode directories to fix filesystem errors with special characters in titles
- **fixed** — API no longer crashes in air-gapped environments when tiktoken cannot download encodings
- **fixed** — Remove incompatible SurrealDB healthcheck from Docker Compose that caused false-negative container status
- **fixed** — Bump Esperanto to v2.19.7 fixing base_url and api_key configuration issues across multiple embedding providers
- **changed** — Upgrade default Azure API version to 2024-10-21
- **deprecated** — Single-container Docker image deprecated in favor of Docker Compose

##### 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