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HUB SHIPS REGION-AWARE BUCKETS, CANDLE UNLOCKS METAL GPU PARALLELISM

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Hugging Face Hub v1.15.0 lands region pinning for buckets and repos, while Candle's Metal backend jumps to inter-encoder parallelism with dependency-tracked synchronization.

The Hub's new region-aware API [1] lets you anchor buckets and repos to US or EU infrastructure at creation time, exposed via `create_bucket(region="us")` and CLI flags on both `hf buckets create` and `hf repos create`. This ships alongside a polished CLI help system and a new `hf skills list` command [1]. Over in Candle, the Metal backend [2] moves from semaphore-based encoder locking to mutex guards and dependency-tracked synchronization, enabling true inter-encoder parallelism when compute tasks have no dependencies. The gemv kernels now align with MLX and Candle Core specs [2]. TRL continues hardening: Gemma4 now requires transformers 5.5.0 minimum [3], and CI memory leaks are fixed by clearing chained exception tracebacks [4]. LeRobot's PI0.5 model is catching up to transformers 5.4.0's new embedding scaling internals, removing manual PaliGemma scaling that the framework now handles [5]. The Hub's FutureWarning for HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER is now visible to end users, not buried under Python's default DeprecationWarning filter [8]. Documentation across the org is staying current: xet-core's repo reorganization forced Hub docs updates [6], and Inference Providers docs auto-regenerated after package bumps [7].

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  1. [1] [v1.15.0] Region-aware buckets & repos, `hf skills list`, polished CLI help and more ↗ huggingface/huggingface_hub
  2. [2] [Metal] Improved inter-encoder sync and gemv ↗ huggingface/candle
  3. [3] Fix transformers min version for tiny gemma4 as 5.5.0 (#5763) ↗ huggingface/trl
  4. [4] Fix OOM in CI by clearing chained exception tracebacks (#5776) ↗ huggingface/trl
  5. [5] fix(pi05): update pi05 with transformers v5.4.0 scaled PaliGemma embeddings ↗ huggingface/lerobot
  6. [6] docs(xet): update broken xet-core links after repo re-org ↗ huggingface/hub-docs
  7. [7] [Bot] Update Inference Providers documentation ↗ huggingface/hub-docs
  8. [8] Make HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER deprecation warning visible to users (#4220) ↗ huggingface/huggingface_hub

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What shipped in Hugging Face on May 16, 2026?
Hugging Face Hub v1.15.0 lands region pinning for buckets and repos, while Candle's Metal backend jumps to inter-encoder parallelism with dependency-tracked synchronization. In total, 15 commits, 13 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on May 16, 2026?
4 developers shipped this update, including ivarflakstad, HaomingSong, assafvayner, and HuggingFaceInfra.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
[v1.15.0] Region-aware buckets & repos, `hf skills list`, polished CLI help and more, [Metal] Improved inter-encoder sync and gemv, and Fix transformers min version for tiny gemma4 as 5.5.0 (#5763).
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