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huggingface_hub is the Python client at the base of the Hugging Face ecosystem. transformers, datasets, diffusers, sentence-transformers and dozens of other libraries depend on it to talk to the Hub. Every week we don't ship a new release is a week of fixes and features stuck on main.
For a long time we released every 4 to 6 weeks. We now release every week from a single GitHub Actions workflow. We built it using open-source tools and open-weights models and kept a human in the loop at the one place where judgment matters. Nothing in this post requires a vendor contract, a closed model, or infrastructure you can't run yourself. That was a design goal from the start since we wanted a workflow other maintainers could pick up and adapt.
By the end of this post, you'll have everything you need to build your own.
Where we started
