huggingface/huggingface_hub v1.8.0.rc0

[ v1.8.0] Mounted volumes on Jobs, complete papers CLI, and more

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🚀 Jobs can now mount volumes

Jobs can now access Hugging Face repositories (models, datasets, Spaces) and Storage Buckets directly as mounted volumes in their containers. This enables powerful workflows like running queries directly against datasets, loading models without explicit downloads, and persisting training checkpoints to buckets.

from huggingface_hub import run_job, Volume

job = run_job(
    image="duckdb/duckdb",
    command=["duckdb", "-c", "SELECT * FROM '/data/**/*.parquet' LIMIT 5"],
    volumes=[
        Volume(type="dataset", source="HuggingFaceFW/fineweb", mount_path="/data"),
    ],
)

hf jobs run -v hf://datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb:/data duckdb/duckdb duckdb -c "SELECT * FROM '/data/**/*.parquet' LIMIT 5"

• Add volume mounting support for buckets and repos by @XciD in #3936

📖 Papers CLI is now complete

The hf papers command now has full functionality: search papers by keyword, get structured JSON metadata, and read the full paper content as markdown. The ls command is also enhanced with new filters for week, month, and submitter.

# Search papers
hf papers search "vision language"

# Get metadata
hf papers info 2601.15621

# Read as markdown
hf papers read 2601.15621

• Complete hf papers with search, info, read + ls filters by @mishig25 in #3952

🖥️ CLI repo ID shorthand

You can now use repo ID prefixes like spaces/user/repo, datasets/user/repo, and models/user/repo as a shorthand for user/repo --type space. This works automatically for all CLI commands that accept a --type flag.

# Before
hf download user/my-space --type space
hf discussions list user/my-dataset --type dataset

# After
hf download spaces/user/my-space
hf discussions list datasets/user/my-dataset

• Accept spaces/user/repo as repo ID prefix shorthand by @Wauplin in #3929

🔧 More repo visibility options

Repositories can now be created or updated with explicit visibility settings (--public, --protected) alongside the existing --private flag. This adds a visibility parameter to HfApi.create_repo, update_repo_settings, and duplicate_repo, with --protected available for Spaces only.

Protected Spaces allow for private code while being publicly accessible.

• Add visibility parameter to HfApi repo create/update/duplicate methods by @hanouticelina in #3951

🖥️ CLI

• Add space-specific options to hf repos create and hf repos duplicate by @Wauplin in #3888
• Add --format json to hf auth whoami by @hanouticelina in #3938 — docs
• Expand nested groups, inline flags & common options glossary in SKILL.md by @hanouticelina in #3941
• Include common options inline in generated SKILL.md by @hanouticelina in #3955
• Fix hf extensions install on uv-managed Python by using uv when available by @hanouticelina in #3957
• Add dataset leaderboard method to HfApi by @davanstrien in #3953
• More explicit spaces hot-reload docs by @cbensimon in #3964
• Update hardware flavors with HF Hub (cpu-performance, sprx8, h200, inf2x6) by @cbensimon in #3965 — docs

🔧 Other QoL Improvements

• Rename .env to .venv in virtual environment instructions by @julien-c in #3939 — docs
• Fix typo in --every help text by @julien-c in #3950
• More robust stream to stdout in hf cp command by @Wauplin in #3968

🐛 Bug and typo fixes

• Use module logger consistently and narrow bare except clauses by @mango766 in #3924
• Fix HfFileSystem glob in missing subdir by @lhoestq in #3935

🏗️ Internal

• Remove conda workflow by @Wauplin in #3928
• Replace huggingface-cli with hf in brew upgrade command by @hanouticelina in #3946
• Fix version check message leaking into generated SKILL.md by @hanouticelina in #3949
• Mention hf-mount in CLI skill by @hanouticelina in #3966
• Use huggingface-hub-bot for post-release PR creation in release.yml by @Wauplin in #3967