Impact Score: 5/10
Hugging Face Transformers: Patch release v4.57.3
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Component: transformers ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.57.3. Source highlight: There was a hidden bug when loading models with `local_files_only=True` and a typo related to the recent patch.
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๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
There was a hidden bug when loading models with `local_files_only=True` and a typo related to the recent patch.
The main fix is: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/b6055550a15a8fab367cf983b743ff68cc58d81a.
We are really sorry that this slipped through, our CIs just did not catch it.
As it affects a lot of users we are gonna yank the previous release