vLLM Gaudi Plugin v0.19.1 Release Notes

Overview

This is a minor patch release on top of v0.19.0 and continues to support Intel® Gaudi® Software v1.24.0 with PyTorch 2.10.

The release lifts the transformers < 5 upper-bound constraint, allowing users to install Hugging Face Transformers v5 alongside the plugin.

For the full set of features delivered in the v0.19.x line, see the v0.19.0 release notes.

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Highlights

• Removed the transformers >= 4.56.0, <5 dependency constraint from requirements.txt, enabling installation of Hugging Face Transformers v5.
• Refreshed the pinned upstream vLLM stable commit used by build scripts and CI.

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Plugin Core

• Removed the transformers >= 4.56.0, <5 dependency entry entirely from requirements.txt (the plugin no longer pins a transformers version), and dropped the now-redundant add_bos_token=True test setting in tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py. (#1420)

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Full Changelog

PR	Title	Author
#1420	Transformers v5 upgrade	@iboiko-habana