v9.8.0

huggingface/finetrainersv9.8.0Apr 29, 2026by davidmezzetti

AI Summary

A maintenance release primarily focused on security and compatibility, fixing issues with LiteLLM, Model2Vec, and protocol handling in request URLs.

Key Highlights

Security issue with LiteLLM fixed
Support for last token pooling added
Streaming Labels pipeline support added
Performance improvement using JOIN for JSON fields
Fix for missing 'http://' or 'https://' protocol in request URLs

New Features

Support for last token pooling
Support for streaming Labels pipeline
Safeopen parameter for Textractor

Full Release Notes

**This release is primarily a bug fix, security and compatibility release.**

See below for full details on the new features, improvements and bug fixes.

New Features
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- Add support for last token pooling (#1072)
- Add support for streaming Labels pipeline (#1075)
- Add safeopen parameter for Textractor (#1077)

Improvements
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- Support Authorization tokens with MCP endpoints (#899)
- Update embeddings documentation to mention loading ONNX vector models (#1071)
- Performance Improvement: Use JOIN when JSON fields being used (#1078)
- Limit template scope with Agents (#1080)

Bug Fixes
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- Security issue with LiteLLM (#1065)
- Issue with latest version of llama-cpp-python (#1066)
- Issue with latest version of Model2Vec (#1067)
- UnsupportedProtocol: Request URL is missing an 'http://' or 'https://' protocol (#1073)