# Hugging Face Transformers v4.8.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v4.8.0
- **Released:** Jun 23, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v4.8.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v4.8.0. Source highlight: v4.8.0 Integration with the Hub and Flax/JAX support

## New Features
- [Flax] Add jax flax to env command #12251 (@patrickvonplaten)
- add FlaxAutoModelForImageClassification in main init #12298 (@patil-suraj)

## Bug Fixes
- [FlaxBart] few small fixes #12247 (@patil-suraj)
- [FlaxClip] fix test from/save pretrained test #12284 (@patil-suraj)
- [Flax] Fix flax test save pretrained #12256 (@patrickvonplaten)
- [Flax T5] Fix weight initialization and fix docs #12327 (@patrickvonplaten)
- AutoTokenizer: infer the class from the tokenizer config if possible #12208 (@sgugger)
- update desc for map in all examples #12226 (@bhavitvyamalik)

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==4.8.0'
```