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kernels gains minver checks, diffusers deprecates ONNX

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sayakpaul drbh Ma, Guokai Rémi Ouazan Wang, Yi Cyril Vallez iridescentWen
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sayakpaul @sayakpaul 4 cited drbh @drbh 2 cited Ma, Guokai @delock 1 cited Rémi Ouazan @remi-or 1 cited Wang, Yi @sywangyi 1 cited Cyril Vallez @Cyrilvallez 1 cited iridescentWen @iridescentWen eustlb @eustlb SunMarc @SunMarc

huggingface/kernels now validates kernel metadata against a minimum version, and diffusers starts deprecating its ONNX export path.

huggingface/kernels introduces a `minver` field to kernel metadata so client libraries can verify the installed version meets requirements before use [1]. It also implements a capability check in `main` [2] and cleans up failed imports by removing partially initialized modules from `sys.modules` before re-raising the exception with kernel context [3]. In huggingface/kernels-community, tests now validate that `get_kernel()` calls use the repo id and version from each kernel's `build.toml` [4], and a JSON decoding error in hub upload comments is fixed by aligning the expected upload.json path [5]. For diffusers, the core is deprecating the ONNX export path [6], a change that will eventually remove ONNX support from the library. In transformers, the `capture_outputs` hook now supports `output_hidden_states_layers` so callers can retain only specific hidden-state layers, keeping non-requested positions as `None` [7]. A new BatchRebalanceSampler balances sequence-length cost across DP ranks in distributed training [8]. Sparse TikToken tokenizers no longer fail silently; the fix addresses non-contiguous tensors and potential `None` values [9]. Deprecated mask functions are removed from transformers [10].

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  1. [1] feat: support and check minver ↗ huggingface/kernels
  2. [2] feat: implement capability check in main ↗ huggingface/kernels
  3. [3] fix: cleanup failed imports ↗ huggingface/kernels
  4. [4] feat: implement validation of kernel versions in the tests ↗ huggingface/kernels-community
  5. [5] fix json decoding error in the hub comment. ↗ huggingface/kernels-community
  6. [6] [core] deprecate onnx ↗ huggingface/diffusers
  7. [7] Allow capturing only necessary hidden_states with capture_outputs (#48081) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  8. [8] Batch Rebalance Data Sampler (#47340) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  9. [9] [Fix] Sparse TikToken tokenizers silently fail (#48446) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  10. [10] Remove deprecated mask functions (#48476) ↗ huggingface/transformers

$ ls huggingface/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Transformers deprecations cleaned, NeoMME and offload land the month in review Cache-billing leak fixed, and everything from robots to diffusers gets harder to break
Topics: Python AI / ML Full archive →

Quick answers

What shipped in Hugging Face on September 2, 2026?
huggingface/kernels now validates kernel metadata against a minimum version, and diffusers starts deprecating its ONNX export path. In total, 24 commits and 24 pull requests landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on September 2, 2026?
9 developers shipped this update, including sayakpaul, iridescentWen, eustlb, Ma, Guokai, Rémi Ouazan, Wang, Yi, Cyril Vallez, and drbh, and 1 more.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
feat: support and check minver, feat: implement capability check in main, and fix: cleanup failed imports.
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Transformers.js adds structured output and docs overhaul 29 shipped Transformers adds Kimi linear support 6 shipped TRL removes PPOTrainer, vendors Liger-Kernel losses 54 shipped TRL documents 1M-token training, diffusers fixes group offloading, kernels fix Intel heuristics 34 shipped

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