# Hugging Face Transformers v2.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v2.8.0
- **Released:** Apr 06, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v2.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v2.8.0. Source highlight: ELECTRA Model (@LysandreJik)

## Bug Fixes
- Decoder input ids are not necessary for T5 training anymore (@patrickvonplaten)
- Update encoder and decoder on set_input_embedding for BART (@sshleifer)
- Using loaded checkpoint with --do_predict (instead of random init) for Pytorch-lightning scripts (@ethanjperez)
- Clean summarization and translation example testing files for T5 and Bart (@patrickvonplaten)
- Cleaner examples (@julien-c)
- Extensive testing for T5 model (@patrickvonplaten)

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==2.8.0'
```