# Hugging Face Transformers v4.34.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v4.34.1
- **Released:** Oct 18, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v4.34.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.34.1. Source highlight: A patch release was made for the following three commits:

## New Features
- Add add_generation_prompt argument to apply_chat_template (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/26573)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix backward compatibility of Conversation (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/26741)
- [Tokenizer] Fix slow and fast serialization (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/26570)

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==4.34.1'
```