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huggingface_hub v1.0 officially released

·2025.10.27 09:00

Key point

Hugging Face's core library huggingface_hub has been updated to v1.0, bringing major feature improvements and a CLI overhaul.

Details

Hugging Face's core infrastructure, huggingface_hub, has released v1.0. This library is an essential tool for the open machine learning ecosystem, supporting over 200,000 dependent libraries and more than 2 million models.

Key Changes:

  • Backend Migration: Replaced the backend library with httpx for improved performance.
  • New CLI Introduced: Unveiled the hf CLI, replacing the existing huggingface-cli. Functionality has been greatly expanded through a Typer-based interface.
  • File Transfer Method Change: Fully adopted hf_xet as the file transfer technology, replacing the previous hf_transfer.

Compatibility Notice: Most ML libraries maintain backward compatibility to work smoothly across both v0.x and v1.x. However, caution is needed with the transformers library, as its current v4 version requires huggingface_hub v0.x, while the upcoming v5 release will require v1.x.

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