# Hugging Face Transformers v5.16.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Hugging Face Transformers (https://huggingface.co)
- **Version:** v5.16.1
- **Released:** Aug 26, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/transformers/updates/v5.16.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Hugging Face Transformers v5.16.1. Source highlight: This is a special release as we include GLM! (and a few small fixes)

## Bug Fixes
- Restore BC for the tensor-parallel API (#48300)
- Fix kernel commit and repo paths for ESMFold2 (#48186)

## Upgrade Command
```bash
python -m pip install 'transformers==5.16.1'
```