vLLM 0.28.0 Upgrade Guide: Rust Frontend & Quantization
vllm_project · x · 2026-08-27
vLLM v0.28.0 is released with key updates in serving and frontend:
- E/P/D: Removed duplicate image preprocessing and moved it to the GPU.
- Rust Frontend: Added a standalone renderer and image inference over gRPC.
- Quantization: Online MXFP4 quantization, plus batch-invariant NVFP4 MoE via CUTLASS.
- Priority: Request priority can now come from an HTTP header.
- Security: Fixed a DoS vulnerability via audio sample-rate forgery.
Before you upgrade:
- Default Changes: maxnumbatchedtokens increased to 16384; prefix caching enabled by default for Mamba models.
- Plugins: bitsandbytes is now an out-of-tree plugin; calculatekvscales and overrideattentiondtype are removed.
- Dependencies: Upgraded to Transformers 5.15.0; runtime image moved to Ubuntu 24.04.
- Metrics Renamed: KV offload tiering metrics renamed from ...block... to ...chunk....
Related event: vLLM v0.28.0 Ships with 584 Commits from 270 Contributors(3 posts)→
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