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The huggingface_hub Python library has reached v1.0 after five years of development, now powering 200,000 dependent libraries and providing access to over 2 million models, 500,000 datasets, and 1 million Spaces. Major changes include migration from requests to httpx for modern HTTP infrastructure, a redesigned CLI replacing huggingface-cli with expanded features, and full adoption of hf_xet for file transfers with chunk-level deduplication. The release removes legacy patterns like the Git-based Repository class while maintaining backward compatibility for most ML libraries, though transformers v5 will be required for full v1.x support.

huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning