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
providerargument inInferenceClientModelhas 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
Fetched April 7, 2026

