# August 12, 2026

## Deepgram Self-Hosted August 2026 Release (260812)

### Container Images (release 260812)

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:release-260812`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:1.192.25`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:release-260812`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:3.127.0`

  - Minimum required NVIDIA driver version: `>=570.172.08`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-license-proxy:release-260812`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-license-proxy:1.11.0`

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-billing:release-260812`
  - Equivalent image to:
    - `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-billing:1.14.0`

### FIPS 140-3 Images

FIPS 140-3 images are available for all four self-hosted services, published under the `-fips` tag suffix:

- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-api:release-260812-fips`
- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-engine:release-260812-fips`
- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-license-proxy:release-260812-fips`
- `quay.io/deepgram/self-hosted-billing:release-260812-fips`

These images run OpenSSL's FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic provider. Enable FIPS by setting `[fips] mode = "enabled"` in each service's configuration. FIPS mode should be enabled only on the `-fips` images; the standard images do not include the FIPS provider. See [FIPS-Compliant Deployment](/guides/deployment-fips-compliant-deployment) for setup and configuration details.

:::callout{intent="warning"}
**Known issue: MP3 and FLAC output are not available on FIPS images.** A text-to-speech request that asks for either format returns `HTTP 200` with an empty body rather than an error. `/v1/speak` and batch `/v2/speak` both return MP3 by default, so set `encoding` explicitly on FIPS images. `linear16` and `opus` output are unaffected, as is streaming `/v2/speak`.

This limits audio _output_ only. Sending MP3 or FLAC _input_ to speech-to-text on a FIPS image is unaffected.

See [MP3 and FLAC Output](/guides/deployment-fips-compliant-deployment#mp3-and-flac-output) for details and workarounds.
:::

### Flux TTS (Early Access)

Flux TTS, Deepgram's streaming-first speech synthesis model, is now available in self-hosted deployments as an Early Access feature. Flux TTS is served on the new `/v2/speak` endpoint, which offers both a batch REST transport and a real-time WebSocket transport. Aura and Aura-2 continue to be served on `/v1/speak` and are unchanged.

Flux TTS is off by default. Enabling it requires a dedicated Engine and GPU — Flux TTS and Aura cannot share an Engine, and Flux TTS workers bind to a single GPU — plus a Flux TTS model file, which you can request from your Deepgram account representative. See [Deploying Flux TTS](/guides/deployment-deploy-flux-tts) for configuration, deployment constraints, and test requests.

For the model, voices, and API surface, see the [Flux TTS Overview](/guides/flux-tts-overview) and the [`/v2/speak` API reference](/guides/self-hosted-deployments-2-reference-text-to-speech-speak-flux).

### This Release Contains The Following Changes

- **Flux TTS (Early Access)** — Flux TTS is now available in self-hosted deployments on the new `/v2/speak` endpoint. See [Deploying Flux TTS](/guides/deployment-deploy-flux-tts) for setup, and the section above for details.
- **Nepali and Punjabi Support** — Nova-3 monolingual models now support Nepali (`ne`) and Punjabi (`pa`, `pa-IN`), in both batch and streaming. See [the full announcement](/guides/more-changelog-2026-8-5) for details.
- **General Improvements** — dependency and security updates, and refreshed base images.

## Related pages

- [Amazon SageMaker](./amazon-sagemaker-index.md)
- [Aura](./aura-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Custom Vocabulary](./custom-vocabulary-index.md)
- [Deepgram's Docs](../index.md)
- [Deployment](./deployment-index.md)
- [Docker/Podman](./docker-podman-index.md)
- [Features](./features-index.md)
- [Flux TTS](./flux-tts-index.md)
- [Formatting](./formatting-index.md)

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