opencast!

opencast 2026.8.1 brings your podcasts to carplay and siri, with major improvements to feeds, listening history, transcripts, and reliability. • browse inbox, library, and downloads in carplay. start or resume an episode, change playback speed, and control voice boost from now playing • ask siri to play your subscribed podcasts in opencast • unsubscribing now keeps listening history by default, so played episodes and positions return if you subscribe again. you can still clear a show’s history during removal or clear history for all unfollowed shows from settings • transcript follow-along now verifies that playback matches the audio used for transcription. opencast can switch to the matching downloaded copy automatically and warns when timing cannot be trusted • smart resume rewinds a few seconds when you return to an episode, with more context after longer breaks • pull down on a podcast page to search its episodes. podcast discovery now uses your local itunes storefront when available • feed rows and podcast pages show clearer refresh health, including partial-feed recovery and new-episode notification polling issues • new-episode notifications can catch up with as many as three missed episodes per show this release also includes a refreshed app icon!!! full release notes: https://github.com/connlark/opencast/releases/tag/v2026.8.1