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LEROBOT FIXES D405 REALSENSE STARTUP HANGS WITH AUTO-RECOVERY

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LeRobot's camera stack now survives RealSense D405 hardware lockups that used to require a physical replug.

LeRobot shipped a fix [1][2] that adds automatic hardware reset recovery when the D405 RealSense camera fails to deliver frames during warmup, replacing the previous requirement for manual intervention. The PR rebases an earlier attempt and extends the solution by implementing a bounded retry loop in the connect() method with a configurable maximum attempt count [1]. The fix also corrects a silent frame capture failure by adding a color_format config field to RealSenseCameraConfig, allowing D405 users to specify bgr8 instead of the hardcoded rgb8 that was breaking color delivery on the depth module [2]. In parallel, the diffusers team merged support for group offloading under auto offloading [3], letting group-offloaded models participate in automatic CPU memory management without being chosen as eviction targets [4]. Across the three desks, activity includes 2 commits and 3 PRs, with optimum-habana bumping TruffleHog for security scanning [5].

Quick answers

What shipped in Hugging Face on August 3, 2026?
LeRobot's camera stack now survives RealSense D405 hardware lockups that used to require a physical replug. In total, 2 commits and 3 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on August 3, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including dependabot, yiyixuxu, and Liyux3.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
fix(cameras): D405 RealSense connection timeout on startup, fix(cameras): D405 RealSense connection timeout on startup (#3894), and support group offloading under auto offloading (#14358).