huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning

Back to Articles huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning Published October 27, 2025 Update on GitHub Upvote 75 +69 Lucain Pouget Wauplin Follow Célina Hanouti celinah Follow Lysandre lysandre Follow Julien Chaumond julien-c Follow TL;DR: After five years of development, huggingface_hub has reached v1.0 - a milestone that marks the library's maturity as the Python package powering 200,000 dependent libraries and providing core functionality for accessing over 2 million public models, 0.5 million public datasets, and 1 million public Spaces. This release introduces breaking changes designed to support the next decade of open machine learning, driven by a global community of almost 300 contributors and millions of users. 🚀 We highly recommend upgrading to v1.0 to benefit from major performance improvements and new capabilities. pip install --upgrade huggingface_hub Major changes in this release include the migration to httpx as the backend library, a completely redesigned hf CLI (which replaces the deprecated huggingface-cli) featuring a Typer-based interface with a significantly expanded feature set, and full adoption of hf_xet for file transfers, replacing the legacy hf_transfer. You can find the full release notes here. We’ve worked hard to ensure that huggingface_hub v1.0.0 remains backward compatible. In practice, most ML libraries should work seamlessly with both v0.x and v1.x versions. The main exception is transformers, whi...