huggingface_hub v2.1.0 ships: 17x faster downloads, job retries, rerun and port exposure
huggingface · x · 2026-10-02
Hugging Face released huggingfacehub v2.1.0 with a batch of practical improvements:
- Better Jobs tooling: automatic retries via the attempts parameter, one-command reruns from a job's saved spec (including secrets and hardware settings), rescheduling of cron-based jobs without recreation, and port exposure (expose with token protection, exposepublic unauthenticated) both at creation and on running jobs.
- ZeroGPU quota tracking built into the client.
- Up to 17× faster HfFileSystem downloads powered by hfxet.
- Inference Endpoints deployment from tested recipes.
Install with pip install -U huggingfacehub.
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