Version 3.17.0

New Features:

Extended support for Interface.load! 🏗️

You can now load image-to-text and conversational pipelines from the hub!

Image-to-text Demo

io = gr.Interface.load("models/nlpconnect/vit-gpt2-image-captioning",
                       api_key="<optional-api-key>")
io.launch()

conversational Demo

chatbot = gr.Interface.load("models/microsoft/DialoGPT-medium",
                           api_key="<optional-api-key>")
chatbot.launch()

By @freddyaboulton in PR 3011

Download Button added to Model3D Output Component 📥

No need for an additional file output component to enable model3d file downloads anymore. We now added a download button to the model3d component itself.

By @dawoodkhan82 in PR 3014

Fixing Auth on Spaces 🔑

Authentication on spaces works now! Third party cookies must be enabled on your browser to be able
to log in. Some browsers disable third party cookies by default (Safari, Chrome Incognito).

Bug Fixes:

Fixes bug where interpretation event was not configured correctly by @freddyaboulton in PR 2993
Fix relative import bug in reload mode by @freddyaboulton in PR 2992
Fixes bug where png files were not being recognized when uploading images by @abidlabs in PR 3002
Fixes bug where external Spaces could not be loaded and used as functions if they returned files by @abidlabs in PR 3004
Fix bug where file serialization output was not JSON serializable by @freddyaboulton in PR 2999
Fixes bug where png files were not being recognized when uploading images by @abidlabs in PR 3002
Fixes bug where temporary uploaded files were not being added to temp sets by @abidlabs in PR 3005
Fixes issue where markdown support in chatbot breaks older demos @dawoodkhan82 in PR 3006
Fixes the /file/ route that was broken in a recent change in PR 3010
Fix bug where the Image component could not serialize image urls by @freddyaboulton in PR 2957
Fix forwarding for guides after SEO renaming by @aliabd in PR 3017
Switch all pages on the website to use latest stable gradio by @aliabd in PR 3016
Fix bug related to deprecated parameters in huggingface_hub for the HuggingFaceDatasetSaver in PR 3025
Added better support for symlinks in the way absolute paths are resolved by @abidlabs in PR 3037
Fix several minor frontend bugs (loading animation, examples as gallery) frontend @aliabid94 in PR 2961.
Fixes bug that the chatbot sample code does not work with certain input value by @petrov826in PR 3039.
Fix shadows for form element and ensure focus styles more visible in dark mode @pngwn in PR 3042.
Fixed bug where the Checkbox and Dropdown change events were not triggered in response to other component changes by @freddyaboulton in PR 3045
Fix bug where the queue was not properly restarted after launching a closed app by @freddyaboulton in PR 3022
Adding missing embedded components on docs by @aliabd in PR 3027
Fixes bug where app would crash if the file_types parameter of gr.File or gr.UploadButton was not a list by @freddyaboulton in PR 3048
Ensure CSS mounts correctly regardless of how many Gradio instances are on the page @pngwn in PR 3059.
Fix bug where input component was not hidden in the frontend for UploadButton by @freddyaboulton in PR 3053
Fixes issue where after clicking submit or undo, the sketch output wouldn't clear. @dawoodkhan82 in PR 3047
Ensure spaces embedded via the web component always use the correct URLs for server requests and change ports for testing to avoid strange collisions when users are working with embedded apps locally by @pngwn in PR 3065
Preserve selected image of Gallery through updated by @freddyaboulton in PR 3061
Fix bug where auth was not respected on HF spaces by @freddyaboulton and @aliabid94 in PR 3049
Fixes bug where tabs selected attribute not working if manually change tab by @tomhang25 in 3055
Change chatbot to show dots on progress, and fix bug where chatbot would not stick to bottom in the case of images by @aliabid94 in PR 3067

Documentation Changes:

SEO improvements to guides by @aliabd in PR 2915
Use gr.LinePlot for the blocks_kinematics demo by @freddyaboulton in PR 2998
Updated the interface_series_load to include some inline markdown code by @abidlabs in PR 3051

Testing and Infrastructure Changes:

Adds a GitHub action to test if any large files (> 5MB) are present by @abidlabs in PR 3013

Breaking Changes:

No changes to highlight.

Full Changelog:

Rewrote frontend using CSS variables for themes by @pngwn in PR 2840
Moved telemetry requests to run on background threads by @abidlabs in PR 3054

Contributors Shoutout: