Impact Score: 5/10
Hugging Face Transformers: Patch release v4.48.2
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
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Hugging Face Transformers v4.48.2. Source highlight: Patch release v4.48.2
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- Restore is_torch_greater_or_equal_than for backward compatibility (#35734)
- Fix NoneType type as it requires py>=3.10 (#35843)
- Fix: loading DBRX back from saved path (#35728)
- Fix mask slicing for models with HybridCache #35681
- Fix is_causal being a tensor (#35791)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
# Patch release v4.48.2
Sorry because the fixes for `num_items_in_batches` are not done yet 😓 To follow along see this [PR](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/35875), a new patch will be available soon!
Now, we mostly had BC issue with python version 3.9:
- Restore is_torch_greater_or_equal_than for backward compatibility (#35734) by @tlrmchlsmth
- Fix NoneType type as it requires py>=3.10 (#35843) by @SunMarc
Then we had a small regression for DBRX saving:
- Fix: loading DBRX back from saved path (#35728) by @zucchini-nlp
Finally we have a fix for gemma and the hybrid attention architectures:
- Fix mask slicing for models with HybridCache #35681 by @Cyrilvallez
Miscellaneous:
- Fix is_causal being a tensor (#35791) by @IlyasMoutawwakil