v1.16.0

New features 🚀

• Tools
  • Add Bing search engine to WebSearchTool by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1313
• Local Python executor improvements
  • Support passing custom functions to local Python executor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1302
  • Support executor_kwargs in LocalPythonExecutor for initialization customization by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1314
  • Add timeout mechanism for code execution by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1318
• CLI improvements
• Enable local web agents via api_base and api_key by @zbloss in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1333

Important changes ⚠️

• Default provider for InferenceClientModel is now "auto" The default value of the provider argument in InferenceClientModel has changed from "hf-inference" to "auto". With "auto", the client will automatically select the first available provider for the model, following the user's configured priority at https://hf.co/settings/inference-providers
  • Pin minimum version of huggingface-hub to use InferenceClient auto provider by @julien-c in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1322

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Streaming GradioUI fixes
  • Fix thought yield in GradioUI for streaming and non-streaming by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1311
  • Fix duplicate error message in GradioUI, test, and refactor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1312
  • Fix duplicate plan display in GradioUI when streaming by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1317

Documentation 📚

• Improve docs about Agentic RAG by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1319
• Update Readme video with streaming example by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1306

Misc 🛠️

• Bump dev version: v1.16.0.dev0 by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1304
• Update minimum supported Gradio version to 5.14.0 to fix Sidebar-related AttributeError by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1309
• Fix deprecation of HfApiModel by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1315
• Fix CI DuckDuckGoSearchTool tests raising 202 Ratelimit by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1324
• Remove utils dir from Makefile check_dirs by @tobiasofsn in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1335

New Contributors

• @tobiasofsn made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1335
• @zbloss made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/1333

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/compare/v1.15.0...v1.16.0