# Hugging Face Transformers v4.57.6 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v4.57.6
- **Released:** Jan 16, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v4.57.6/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.57.6. Source highlight: Another fix for qwen vl models that prevented correctly loading the associated model type - this works together with https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/41808 of the previous patch release.

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed incorrect model_type for qwen2vl and qwen2.5vl when config is saved and loaded again

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==4.57.6'
```