New Model Support
- Mistral 3 (#1627 by @kyoui-dev)
- DeepSeek-OCR-2 (#1793 by @openvino-agent)
- Meta Muse Glimmer (#1924 by @rkazants)
- Ouro (#1783 by @openvino-dev-samples)
- Fun-ASR (#1801 by @openvino-agent)
- LTX2 text-to-audio-video (#1733 by @anatyrova) and image-to-video (#1885 by @goyaladitya05)
- LTX-Video image-to-video (#1762 by @goyaladitya05)
- Qwen-Image (#1790 by @openvino-agent)
- Z-Image (#1946 by @openvino-agent)
- DFlash draft models for speculative decoding (#1756 by @ofirzaf), including VLM support (#1926 by @ofirzaf, #1971 by @rkazants)
- Multi-Token Prediction heads for Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6 (including MoE flavors) and Qwen3.8-27B (#1814 by @openvino-agent, #1971 by @rkazants)
- Video input for Gemma 4 and Gemma 4 Unified (#1951 by @yatarkan)
Improvements & fixes
- Added default int4 compression configs for gemma-4-12B-it (#1952 by @anzr299) and Muse-Glimmer-30B (#1929
by @andreyanufr) - Fixed Gemma 4 Unified vision embedding fp16 overflow on GPU by setting an activation scale factor (#1973 by @rkazants)
- Fixed chat template application for Gemma 4 Unified (#1895 by @popovaan)
- Fixed Mamba 2 selective SSM representation for Granite 4.0 hybrid (#1789 by @openvino-agent)
- Optimized Qwen3-Omni-MoE Talker MoE export (#1880 by @sgonorov)
- Fixed the inputs_embeds input of the Qwen3-VL Eagle draft model (#1932 by @popovaan)
- Fixed Fun-ASR model type (#1925 by @popovaan) and added export and auto-compression tests (#1874
by @LauraGPT) - Fixed calibration dataset preparation for FLUX.2-klein (#1923 by @andrey-churkin)
- Added the missing --group-size-fallback argument to the export CLI (#1845 by @andrey-churkin)
- Removed the _LTX2AttnProcessorWithEps patch for LTX2 (#1928 by @anatyrova)
- Removed the patch_16bit_model flag from the export path (#1930 by @anatyrova)
- Bumped the minimum NNCF version to v3.3 and unpinned safetensors (#1916 by @andrey-churkin, #1918 by @echarlaix)
Other Changes
- Added an OpenVINO export space to the documentation (#1882 by @echarlaix)
- Added agent skills for optimum and tiny test model creation (#1848 by @Mohamed-Ashraf273)
- Removed unneeded transformers version checks in tests (#1933 by @popovaan)
- CI: run OpenVINO tests on release-branch pull requests (#1892), restore Qwen3.5 and Qwen3.5-MoE in the preview workflow (#1891), sync built docs to the hf-doc-build bucket (#1898 by @echarlaix)
New Contributors
- @kyoui-dev made their first contribution in #1627 (#1627)
- @goyaladitya05 made their first contribution in #1762 (#1762)
- @LauraGPT made their first contribution in #1874 (#1874)
- @yatarkan made their first contribution in #1951 (#1951)
Compatible transformers version
Compatible with transformers>=4.51,<5.6
Recommended versions
- OpenVINO: v2026.4
- OpenVINO GenAI: v2026.4
- NNCF: v3.4