# Hugging Face Transformers v4.36.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v4.36.2
- **Released:** Dec 18, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v4.36.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.36.2. Source highlight: Patch release to resolve some critical issues relating to the recent cache refactor, flash attention refactor and training in the multi-gpu and multi-node settings:

## Bug Fixes
- Resolve training bug with PEFT + GC #28031
- Fix resuming from checkpoint when using FDSP with FULL_STATE_DICT #27891
- Resolve bug when saving a checkpoint in the multi-node setting #28078

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==4.36.2'
```