Diffusers 0.40.0: New pipelines, tensor-parallel support, improved CLI, and more
Tip This release features several new pipelines, including LTX2.5, MiniMax H3, and Wan Animate 2. We're also graduating Modular Diffusers out of the experimental phase and announcing its stable support. Additionally, this release includes minimal support for tensor-parallel. There's a lot more that went down in this release.
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BigQuery adds ML.TREND, ML.SEASONALITY and ML.DETECT_CHANGE_POINTS in preview
New table-valued functions in the query editor and conversational analytics identify trends, repeating seasonal patterns and structural change points in time series data.
BigQuery Graph core processing limited to Enterprise editions from April 26, 2027
Standard edition and on-demand billing support for BigQuery Graph core graph processing is deprecated, with processing restricted to Enterprise and Enterprise Plus from April 26, 2027. Graph measures remain available except in Standard edition.
The run_bq_command tool exposes the bq command-line tool within the Cloud CLI remote MCP server
The run_bq_command tool exposes the bq command-line tool within the Cloud CLI remote MCP server. AI agents can now execute advanced BigQuery operations, such as job scheduling, job management, and reservation management, through a managed MCP endpoint. For more information, see Use the Cloud CLI remote MCP server . This feature is in Preview .
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support for client-side encrypted stages and network-restricted accounts (General availability)
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages. For more information, see the following topics:
Cortex Agent code execution tool (Preview)
The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now in public preview. When you enable the tool on an agent, the agent can generate and run Python in a secure, isolated sandbox to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations.
Salesforce connector mTLS authentication is now generally available
Mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for the Salesforce connector in Lakeflow Connect is now generally available. With mTLS, Databricks and Salesforce exchange and verify client certificates to establish two-way trust, combined with the OAuth client credentials flow. Choose it for API-only users or when your organization requires mTLS.
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Diffusers 0.41.0: QwenImage 2.1 pipeline and more
> [!TIP] > This release brings Qwen-Image 2.1 to Diffusers, with text-to-image generation, image editing, native transparency, and LoRA training. > > Starting with this release, we’re adopting the Transformers release philosophy: coordinating minor releases around new model integrations, while including the other changes merged since the previous release.
Diffusers 0.39.0: New image and video pipelines, core library improvements, and more
New Pipelines Cosmos 3 Cosmos 3 is NVIDIA's unified world foundation model (WFM) for Physical AI , a single omni-model built on a Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) architecture that combines world generation, physical reasoning, and action generation, replacing the separate Predict, Reason, and Transfer models from earlier Cosmos releases.
Diffusers 0.42.0: FLUX.3, Fibo 2.0, Kandinsky 6, and more
Diffusers 0.42.0 introduces support for FLUX.3 Image Klein, Bria Fibo 2.0, and Kandinsky 6, along with new modular pipeline capabilities.
Diffusers 0.38.0: New image and audio pipelines, Core library improvements, and more
New Pipelines LLaDA2 LLaDA2 is a family of discrete diffusion language models that generate text through block-wise iterative refinement. Instead of autoregressive token-by-token generation, LLaDA2 starts with a fully masked sequence and progressively unmasks tokens by confidence over multiple refinement steps.
Diffusers 0.37.0: Modular Diffusers, New image and video pipelines, multiple core library improvements, and more 🔥
Modular Diffusers Modular Diffusers introduces a new way to build diffusion pipelines by composing reusable blocks. Instead of writing entire pipelines from scratch, you can now mix and match building blocks to create custom workflows tailored to your specific needs!
Diffusers 0.36.0: Pipelines galore, new caching method, training scripts, and more 🎄
The release features a number of new image and video pipelines, a new caching method, a new training script, new kernels - powered attention backends, and more. It is quite packed with a lot of new stuff, so make sure you read the release notes fully 🚀 New image pipelines Flux2 : Flux2 is the latest generation of image generation and editing model from...