#release

• 26 Jan 2026 · AI updates

  Transformers v5: the first major release in five years

  Hugging Face released Transformers v5, the first major version in five years, removing long-deprecated APIs, refactoring weight loading and tokenization, and moving to weekly minor releases.

• 17 Dec 2025 · AI updates

  Gemini 3 Flash: "Pro-grade reasoning at Flash speed"

  Google released Gemini 3 Flash, positioned as frontier-level reasoning at Flash speed and lower cost; it became the default model in the Gemini app and in Search's AI Mode.

• 17 Oct 2025 · AI updates

  LangChain 1.0 released

  LangChain reached 1.0. The release notes list the final changes before it: new middleware (shell, file search, tool retry), an injectable ToolRuntime, state-schema options for create_agent, and Python 3.14 support.

• 17 Oct 2024 · AI updates

  PyTorch 2.5: cuDNN SDPA backend, FlexAttention, regional compilation

  PyTorch 2.5 added a cuDNN backend for scaled dot-product attention (speedups by default on H100-class GPUs), regional compilation to cut torch.compile cold-start time, and a FlexAttention prototype.

• 7 Aug 2024 · AI updates

  LangGraph 0.2: pluggable checkpointers for durable agents

  LangGraph v0.2 split state persistence into dedicated checkpointer libraries (in-memory, SQLite and an open-sourced Postgres version) for session memory, error recovery and human-in-the-loop.

• 17 May 2024 · AI updates

  Transformers 4.41: GGUF support, Phi-3, PaliGemma

  Transformers v4.41 added Phi-3 (with 128K-context variants), the JetMoE mixture-of-experts model, Google's PaliGemma vision-language model and GGUF loading support.

• 30 Jan 2024 · AI updates

  PyTorch 2.2: FlashAttention-2 in SDPA, AOTInductor

  PyTorch 2.2 brought FlashAttention-2 into scaled_dot_product_attention for about 2× speedups, and introduced AOTInductor for compiling models ahead of time for non-Python deployment.

• 2 Nov 2023 · AI updates

  Transformers 4.35: safetensors by default, Distil-Whisper, Fuyu

  Hugging Face Transformers v4.35 made safetensors the default serialization format and added models including Distil-Whisper (6× faster than Whisper) and Adept's Fuyu-8B.

• 4 Oct 2023 · AI updates

  PyTorch 2.1: dynamic shapes in torch.compile, distributed checkpointing

  PyTorch 2.1 added automatic dynamic-shape support to torch.compile, parallel distributed checkpointing, NumPy compilation, and a prototype of torch.export.