v2.3.1

Important changes

• Added support for Mllama (3.2, vision models). Flashed, unpadded.
• FP8 performance improvements
• Moe performance improvements
• BREAKING CHANGE - When using tools, models could answer with a tool call notify_error with the content error, it will instead output regular generation.

What's Changed

• nix: remove unused _server.nix file by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2538
• chore: Add old V2 backend by @OlivierDehaene in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2551
• Remove duplicated RUN in Dockerfile by @alvarobartt in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2547
• Micro cleanup. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2555
• Hotfixing main by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2556
• Add support for scalar FP8 weight scales by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2550
• Add DenseMoELayer and wire it up in Mixtral/Deepseek V2 by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2537
• Update the link to the Ratatui organization by @orhun in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2546
• Simplify crossterm imports by @orhun in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2545
• Adding note for private models in quick-tour document by @ariG23498 in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2548
• Hotfixing main. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2562
• Cleanup Vertex + Chat by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2553
• More tensor cores. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2558
• remove LORA_ADAPTERS_PATH by @nbroad1881 in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2563
• Add LoRA adapters support for Gemma2 by @alvarobartt in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2567
• Fix build with --features google by @alvarobartt in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2566
• Improve support for GPUs with capability < 8 by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2575
• flashinfer: pass window size and dtype by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2574
• Remove compute capability lazy cell by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2580
• Update architecture.md by @ulhaqi12 in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2577
• Update ROCM libs and improvements by @mht-sharma in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2579
• Add support for GPTQ-quantized MoE models using MoE Marlin by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2557
• feat: support phi3.5 moe by @drbh in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2479
• Move flake back to tgi-nix main by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2586
• MoE Marlin: support desc_act for groupsize != -1 by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2590
• nix: experimental support for building a Docker container by @danieldk in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2470
• Mllama flash version by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2585
• Max token capacity metric by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2595
• CI (2592): Allow LoRA adapter revision in server launcher by @drbh in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2602
• Unroll notify error into generate response by @drbh in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2597
• New release 2.3.1 by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2604

New Contributors

• @alvarobartt made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2547
• @orhun made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2546
• @ariG23498 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2548
• @ulhaqi12 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2577
• @mht-sharma made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/pull/2579

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1