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Diffusers pins revisions once, TRL fixes vLLM weight-sync hangs

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Diffusers now resolves the git revision a single time, and TRL turns silent vLLM weight-sync hangs into explicit errors.

Diffusers' from_pretrained now calls huggingface_hub.resolve_revision once at the start, so every fetched file is pinned to the same commit and served from cache without re-resolving on each download [1][2]. This mirrors a change already running in production in vLLM and is a follow-up to huggingface_hub v1.26.0, which introduced resolve_revision and ResolvedRevision. TRL fixed a GRPO weight-sync path where vLLM responses were discarded and the trainer blocked in an uninterruptible ncclBroadcast, hanging the run; the fix checks each request's status and raises with the server's error text, and moves the NCCL collective to a daemon thread [3][4]. Separately, the CI rerun filter now retries cuBLAS allocation errors, which pytest-rerunfailures previously missed because it only matches the outermost exception [5][6]. Harbor pinned all active deployment profiles to updated FX trial-worker images for the system-message ordering, provider-tool filter, and gateway repairs, regenerating every content-derived profile ID without changing any model or provider setting [7][8][9][10]. Transformers now raises when a paged attention forward is called with no cache, rather than silently computing non-causal attention [11]. Hub-docs documents a Network Security exemption for Enterprise Plus service account tokens, allowing CI automation outside corporate IP ranges to bypass IP restrictions and the Content Access Policy [12][13].

Action items

References

  1. [1] [Download] Resolve the revision once at the beginning of from_pretrained ↗ huggingface/diffusers
  2. [2] [Download] Resolve the revision once at the beginning of from_pretrained (#14340) ↗ huggingface/diffusers
  3. [3] Fix: vLLM weight sync fails instead of hanging ↗ huggingface/trl
  4. [4] Fix: vLLM weight sync fails instead of hanging (#6913) ↗ huggingface/trl
  5. [5] Retry tests failing on cuBLAS allocation errors the rerun filter missed ↗ huggingface/trl
  6. [6] Retry tests failing on cuBLAS allocation errors the rerun filter missed (#6916) ↗ huggingface/trl
  7. [7] fix(profiles): pin merged-system FX worker ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  8. [8] fix(profiles): pin FX system-order worker ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  9. [9] fix(profiles): pin FX provider-filter worker ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  10. [10] fix(profiles): pin FX gateway worker image ↗ huggingface/harbor-hf
  11. [11] Raise when a paged attention forward is called with no cache (#48297) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  12. [12] Document Network Security exemption for service account tokens (#2737) ↗ huggingface/hub-docs
  13. [13] Document Network Security exemption for service account tokens ↗ huggingface/hub-docs

Quick answers

What shipped in Hugging Face on August 29, 2026?
Diffusers now resolves the git revision a single time, and TRL turns silent vLLM weight-sync hangs into explicit errors. In total, 38 commits and 38 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on August 29, 2026?
11 developers shipped this update, including Wauplin, sayakpaul, Quentin Gallouédec, Tarek Ziade, Rémi Ouazan, osolmaz, AmineDiro, and albertvillanova, and 3 more.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
[Download] Resolve the revision once at the beginning of from_pretrained, [Download] Resolve the revision once at the beginning of from_pretrained (#14340), and Fix: vLLM weight sync fails instead of hanging.