vLLM Releases Version 0.25.0
vllm_project · x · 2026-07-12
vLLM officially releases v0.25.0, a massive update comprising 558 commits and 232 contributors.
Key highlights:
- Model Runner V2 becomes the default execution path for all dense models.
- Legacy PagedAttention is retired.
- Transformers backend speed is now close to native vLLM.
- Introduced a unified Streaming Parser Engine.
- Added universal speculative decoding (TLI) across heterogeneous vocabularies, alongside new DSpark and DFlash drafters.
- New model support including Hy3 and Unlimited OCR.
This is the main release announcement for the vLLM upgrade, which subsequent detailed serving and hardware notes are based upon.
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