v1.8.1

xorbitsai/inferencev1.8.1Aug 3, 2025by XprobeBot

AI Summary

This release adds comprehensive Qwen3 series support, GLM-4.5 series support, and various UI enhancements including virtualenv support and user favorites.

Key Highlights

  • Added Qwen3-Instruct, Qwen3-30B-A3B-it, and Qwen3-Thinking support
  • Added GLM-4.5 series support
  • Enhanced UI with virtualenv support and user favorites

New Features

  • Qwen3-Instruct support
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B-it support
  • Qwen3-Thinking support
  • Qwen3-Coder support
  • GLM-4.5 series support
  • UI virtualenv support
  • UI user favorites integration

Full Release Notes

# What's new in 1.8.1 (2025-08-03)
These are the changes in inference v1.8.1.
## New features
* FEAT: kokoro mlx support by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3823
* FEAT: Qwen3-Instruct by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3840
* FEAT: [UI] integrate user favorites into feature model output. by @yiboyasss in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3859
* FEAT: support enable virtualenv and specify packages when lauching model by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3854
* FEAT: [UI] support enable virtualenv and specify packages when lauching model. by @yiboyasss in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3867
* FEAT: setting max_tokens to maximum if not specified by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3872
* FEAT: [model] support GLM-4.5 series by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3882
* FEAT: Qwen3-30B-A3B-it by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3886
* FEAT: Support  Qwen3-Thinking by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3888
* FEAT: Support Qwen3-Coder by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3889
## Enhancements
* ENH: add mlu device check by @nan9126 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3844
* ENH: Support for the bge-m3 llama.cpp backend by @codingl2k1 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3861
* ENH: Added mlx support for deepseek-v3-0324 by @uebber in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3864
* ENH: Add context length limits and automatic truncation features to vLLM embedding models. by @amumu96 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3887
* BLD: remove sglang from pip install xinference[all] due to depedency conflicts with vllm by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3865
* BLD: upgrade base image for dockerfile by @zwt-1234 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3318
* BLD: change dokcer build time to 240 minutes to pass 12.8 build by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3892
* REF: add ui module that includes web and gradio UIs. by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3819
* REF: move continuous batching scheduler into model by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3824
## Bug fixes
* BUG: Fixed an error when using structured output in sglang #3825 by @aniya105 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3826
* BUG: fix compatibility for old vllm by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3838
* BUG: Fix abnormal GPU memory usage in Qwen3 Reranker by @JDanielWu in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3846
* BUG: fix compatibility with vllm 0.10.0 by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3875
* BUG: fix version checks for vllm by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3891
## Documentation
* DOC: add experimental feature for virtualenv by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3818
* DOC: add doc about model virtual env settings when lauching model by @qinxuye in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3885
## Others
* FIX: GLM4.1V Repository URL by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3839
* BLD:fix docker build for cu128 by @zwt-1234 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3893
* BLD:fix cu128 build by @zwt-1234 in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3895
* CHORE: THUDM has been renamed to zai-org by @Jun-Howie in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3870

## New Contributors
* @JDanielWu made their first contribution in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3846
* @uebber made their first contribution in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3864
* @zwt-1234 made their first contribution in https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/pull/3318

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/xorbitsai/inference/compare/v1.8.0...v1.8.1