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gpt-researcher v3.8.0

minor PublishedNov 9, 2026 Sourceassafelovic/gpt-researcher

gpt-researcher v3.8.0

A new UI, and detailed reports in under 4 minutes

GPT Researcher turning a question into a cited report

The Next.js app has a new paper design that matches gptr.dev. Settings live in one modal with tabs for Research, MCP, Documents and Backend; a run shows a plain-language feed, and the sources margin slides in once writing starts. The previous UI is still available at /classic.

Detailed reports now finish in 3:27 instead of 9:11. Sections are researched in parallel, and the default writer is now gpt-6-sol, which starts writing within seconds instead of reasoning for close to a minute per section first. Measurements and the model comparison are in #2272.

⚠️ Changes to note

  • Default writer model: SMART_LLM is now openai:gpt-6-sol (was openai:gpt-5.4). Set SMART_LLM to keep the previous model.
  • LLM idle timeout: an LLM call that sends nothing for 300 seconds now fails with a clear error instead of hanging the run. Tune it with LLM_TIMEOUT (0 disables it). (#2220)
  • Docker: the root .env is no longer copied into images. docker compose loads it at runtime (needs Compose 2.24+); with docker run, pass --env-file .env. If you ever pushed an image you built locally, rotate the keys that were in your .env.
  • generate_report now raises when every LLM attempt fails, instead of returning an empty report. (#2219)

Also in this release

  • Prebuilt Docker images for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 on GHCR: ghcr.io/assafelovic/gpt-researcher and ghcr.io/assafelovic/gpt-researcher-frontend-nextjs, tagged with the version and latest (#1517)
  • Research observer: an optional lifecycle observer for integrations that want structured progress events (#2232)
  • MiniMax regional providers and Flash defaults (#1924), a configurable TypeSafe base URL (#2243), and Deploy on Render with a render.yaml blueprint (#2184)
  • Multi-agent plan review feedback from the web UI works again, and the multi-agent writer uses SMART_TOKEN_LIMIT and REASONING_EFFORT (#2272)
  • Deep research honors reasoning budgets, counts retries and nested researchers in costs, and keeps cited learnings at the word limit (#2260, #2209, #2208)
  • MCP search no longer blocks the event loop, and the max_tools cap is enforced (#2262, #2263)
  • Configuration: reasoning_effort from JSON config files, DOC_PATH / REPORT_SOURCE env overrides, UTF-8 config files, and image generation settings are all honored again (#2230, #2248, #2249, #2199, #2246)
  • Retriever, scraper and document loader fixes across Exa, Google, Bing, Bocha, PubMed Central, arXiv, online documents and Windows text files
  • Retriever plugins: a community list with Keenable and Sciverse (#2176, #2225)

53 community pull requests went into this release. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

Install: pip install -U gpt-researcher (0.17.0)

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/assafelovic/gpt-researcher/compare/v3.7.0…v3.8.0

Source assafelovic/gpt-researcher · v3.8.0 · 2026-11-09 · upstream release

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