release: 3.8.1

Author: openai-sdks[bot]

.release-please-manifest.json

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 {
-  ".": "3.8.0"
+  ".": "3.8.1"
 }

CHANGELOG.md

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 # Changelog
 
+## [3.8.1](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/compare/v3.8.0...v3.8.1) (2026-09-04)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **api:** accept incomplete web search call statuses ([#3786](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/3786)) ([3cc8d78](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/3cc8d784ad05f75a265012ee86638adaf93d8bf2))
+
+
+### Chores
+
+* migrate to forked steady ([#3795](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/3795)) ([b24aeda](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/commit/b24aeda89980aff382c641366cce869082056b83))
+
 ## [3.8.0](https://github.com/openai/openai-python/compare/v3.7.0...v3.8.0) (2026-09-03)
 
 

pyproject.toml

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 [project]
 name = "openai"
-version = "3.8.0"
+version = "3.8.1"
 description = "The official Python library for the openai API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"

src/openai/_version.py

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 __title__ = "openai"
-__version__ = "3.8.0"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "3.8.1"  # x-release-please-version