Impact Score: 5/10
Hugging Face Transformers: # v4.22.2 Patch release
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.22.2. Source highlight: Fixes a bug where a cached tokenizer/model was not accessible anymore offline (either forcing offline mode or because of an internet issue).
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๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Fix cached_file in offline mode for cached non-existing files by @sgugger in #19206
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Fixes a bug where a cached tokenizer/model was not accessible anymore offline (either forcing offline mode or because of an internet issue).
- More tests for regression in cached non existence by @sgugger in #19216
- Fix cached_file in offline mode for cached non-existing files by @sgugger in #19206
- Don't warn of move if cache is empty by @sgugger in #19109