v1.6.0

What's Changed

• Bump version to 1.6.0.dev by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/348

• Use transformers as optional dependency by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/360

• Add pip install datasets to RAG example by @sanjeed5 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/371

• Update issue templates by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/377

• TransformersModel auto-detects VLMs by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/378

• Separate tree for Model docs is added by @touseefahmed96 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/382

• add kwargs to gradio launch by @tocab in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/367

• Minor Fix in the example docs by @touseefahmed96 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/383

• Fix Extra planning by @bvantuan in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/362

• Gradio chatbot: step duration, number, token count, support nested thoughts by @yvrjsharma in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/384

  • Gradio Chatbot looks much nicer than before! See below: <img width="1240" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/261088ba-e07a-4293-ac50-188dd5eabe74" />

• Add Chinese translations for text-to-sql example by @FanwangM in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/366

• Add Chinese translations for RAG by @FanwangM in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/363

• Qwen-2VL -> Qwen2-VL model name typo fixed by @sergiopaniego in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/349

• chore: Fix Typo by Calling is_torch_available() in AgentAudio Class by @hironow in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/379

• Additional parameters for openai client by @touseefahmed96 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/385

• DuckDuckGoSearchTool: add ddgs_kwargs parameter to constructor by @onukura in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/372

• Fix final_answer issue in e2b_executor by @keetrap in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/319

• Docs: Text to sql example - minor naming / dedupe by @GrahamTheCoder in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/376

• Test import without extras by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/370

• Add tool saving test by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/389

• Fix blocking of os in authorized imports by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/386

• Add test for DDGS Tool kwargs by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/387

New Contributors

• @tocab made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/367
• @bvantuan made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/362
• @sergiopaniego made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/349
• @hironow made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/379
• @onukura made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/372
• @GrahamTheCoder made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/376

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/compare/v1.5.1...v1.6.0