# Hugging Face — huggingface_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-10-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-v1
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1596-huggingface-hub-v1-0-five-years-of-building-the-foundation-of-open-machine

huggingface_hub v1.0 released, marking five years of development. Major changes: migration to httpx, redesigned CLI (hf), and adoption of hf_xet for file transfers.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-v1:

> After five years of development, huggingface_hub has reached v1.0 - a milestone that marks the library's maturity as the Python package powering 200,000 dependent libraries and providing core functionality for accessing over 2 million public models, 0.5 million public datasets, and 1 million public Spaces. This release introduces breaking changes designed to support the next decade of open machine learning, driven by a global community of almost 300 contributors and millions of users.
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> Major changes in this release include the migration to httpx as the backend library, a completely redesigned hf CLI (which replaces the deprecated huggingface-cli) featuring a Typer-based interface with a significantly expanded feature set, and full adoption of hf_xet for file transfers, replacing the legacy hf_transfer.

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