v1.26.0

sipcapture/homerv1.26.0May 29, 2026by albertvillanova

AI Summary

A development and maintenance release for the Hugging Face smolagents library including bug fixes, documentation updates, and new search engine support.

Key Highlights

  • Add Exa as a search engine option in WebSearchTool
  • Remove remote WasmExecutor
  • Fix LiteLLM provider error messages
  • Update documentation and examples

Breaking Changes

  • Removed remote WasmExecutor

New Features

  • Exa search engine option
  • LocalPythonExecutor docstring update

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* Bump dev version: v1.26.0.dev0 by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2273
* Add new possible error message to test of LiteLLM providers w/o key by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2275
* Fix typo cleanups across docs, examples, and tests by @luojiyin1987 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2208
* fix: correct f-string escaping in ToolSerializer.dumps error message by @Ricardo-M-L in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2134
* Revert fix: correct f-string escaping by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2291
* Update docstring of LocalPythonExecutor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2292
* Add Exa as a search engine option in WebSearchTool by @10ishq in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2139
* Remove remote WasmExecutor by @albertvillanova in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2321

## New Contributors
* @luojiyin1987 made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2208
* @Ricardo-M-L made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2134
* @10ishq made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/2139

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/compare/v1.25.0...v1.26.0