# Hugging Face Transformers v4.44.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v4.44.1
- **Released:** Aug 20, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v4.44.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.44.1. Source highlight: Here are the different fixes, mostly Gemma2 context length, nits here and there, and generation issues

## Bug Fixes
- is_torchdynamo_compiling -- cast a wide exception net (#32476)
- Revert "fixes to properly shard FSDP across cpu and meta for cpu_effcient_loading for prequantized 4bit (#32276)" (#32477) by @gante and @matthewdouglas
- Gemma2: fix FA2 generation (#32553)
- Fix: FA2 with packed training (#32487)
- Fix sliding window attention used in Gemma2FlashAttention2 (#32522)
- Automatically add transformers tag to the modelcard (#32623)

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==4.44.1'
```