Release candidate v5.0.0rc3

New models:

• [GLM-4.7] GLM-Lite Supoort by @zRzRzRzRzRzRzR in #43031
• [GLM-Image] AR Model Support for GLM-Image by @zRzRzRzRzRzRzR in #43100
• Add LWDetr model by @sbucaille in #40991
• Add LightOnOCR model implementation by @baptiste-aubertin in #41621

What's Changed

We are getting closer and closer to the official release!
This RC is focused on removing more of the deprecated stuff, fixing some minors issues, doc updates.

• Update Japanese README to match English version by @lilin-1 in #43069
• [docs] Deploying by @stevhliu in #42263
• [docs] inference engines by @stevhliu in #42932
• Fix typos: Remove duplicate duplicate words words by @efeecllk in #43040
• [style] Rework ruff rules and update all files by @Cyrilvallez in #43144
• [CB] Minor fix in kwargs by @remi-or in #43147
• [Bug] qwen2_5_omni: cap generation length to be less than the max_position_embedding in DiT by @sniper35 in #43068
• Fix some deprecated practices in torch 2.9 by @Cyrilvallez in #43167
• Fix Fuyu processor width dimension bug in _get_num_multimodal_tokens by @Abhinavexists in #43137
• Inherit from PreTrainedTokenizerBase by @juliendenize in #43143
• Generation config boolean defaults by @zucchini-nlp in #43000
• Fix failing BartModelIntegrationTest by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43160
• fix failure of llava/pixtral by @sywangyi in #42985
• GemmaTokenizer: remove redundant whitespace pre-tokenizer by @vaibhav-research in #43106
• Support auto_doctring in Processors by @yonigozlan in #42101
• Fix failing BitModelIntegrationTest by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43164
• [Fp8] Fix experts by @vasqu in #43154
• Docs: improve wording for documentation build instructions by @Sailnagale in #43007
• [makefile] Cleanup and improve the rules by @Cyrilvallez in #43171
• Some new models added stuff that was already removed by @Cyrilvallez in #43179
• Fixes and compilation warning in torchao docs by @merveenoyan in #42909
• [cache] Remove all deprecated classes by @Cyrilvallez in #43168
• Bump huggingface_hub minimal version by @Wauplin in #43188
• Rework check_config_attributes.py by @Cyrilvallez in #43191
• Fix generation config validation by @zucchini-nlp in #43175
• [style] Use 'x | y' syntax for processors as well by @Wauplin in #43189
• Remove deprecated objects by @Cyrilvallez in #43170
• fix chunked prefill implementation issue-43082 by @marcndo in #43132
• Reduce add_dates verbosity by @yonigozlan in #43184
• Add support for MiniMax-M2 by @rogeryoungh in #42028
• Fix failing salesforce-ctrl, xlm & gpt-neo model generation tests by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43180
• Less verbose library helpers by @Cyrilvallez in #43197
• run all test files on CircleCI by @ydshieh in #43146
• Clamp temperature to >=1.0 for Dia generation by @Haseebasif7 in #43029
• Fix spelling typos in comments and code by @raimbekovm in #43046
• [docs] llama.cpp by @stevhliu in #43185
• [docs] gptq formatting fix by @victorywwong in #43216
• Grouped beam search from config params by @zucchini-nlp in #42472
• [Generate] Allow custom config values in generate config by @vasqu in #43181
• Fix failing Pix2StructIntegrationTest by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43229
• Fix missing UTF-8 encoding in check_repo.py for Windows compatibility by @aarushisingh04 in #43123
• [Tokenizer] Change default value of return_dict to True in doc string for apply_chat_template by @kashif in #43223
• Fix failing PhiIntegrationTests by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43214
• Use HF_TOKEN directly and remove require_read_token by @ydshieh in #43233
• Fix failing Owlv2ModelIntegrationTest & OwlViTModelIntegrationTest by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43182
• Fix flashattn wrt quantized models by @SunMarc in #43145
• Remove unused imports by @cyyever in #43078
• Fix unsafe torch.load() in _load_rng_state allowing arbitrary code execution by @ColeMurray in #43140
• Reapply modular to examples by @Cyrilvallez in #43234
• More robust diff checks in add_dates by @yonigozlan in #43199
• docs: fix grammatical error in README.md by @davidfertube in #43236
• Fix typo: seperately → separately in lw_detr converter by @skyvanguard in #43235
• Qwen-VL video processor accepts min/max pixels by @zucchini-nlp in #43228
• Deprecate dtype per sub config by @zucchini-nlp in #42990
• Remove more deprecated objects/args by @Cyrilvallez in #43195
• [CB] Soft-reset offloading by @remi-or in #43150
• Make benchmark-v2 to be device agnostic, to support more torch built-in devices like xpu by @yao-matrix in #43153
• Fix benchmark script by @Cyrilvallez in #43253
• Adding to run slow by @IlyasMoutawwakil in #43250
• Fix failing Vip-llava model integration test by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43252
• Remove deprecated and unused position_ids in all apply_rotary_pos_emb by @Cyrilvallez in #43255
• fix _get_test_info in testing_utils.py by @ydshieh in #43259
• Fix failing Hiera, SwiftFormer & LED Model integration tests by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43225
• [style] Fix init isort and align makefile and CI by @Cyrilvallez in #43260
• [docs] tensorrt-llm by @stevhliu in #43176
• [consistency] Ensure models are added to the _toctree.yml by @Cyrilvallez in #43264
• Fix failing PegasusX, Mvp & LED model integration tests by @Sai-Suraj-27 in #43245
• [CB] Ensure parallel decoding test passes using FA by @remi-or in #43277
• fix crash in when running FSDP2+TP by @sywangyi in #43226
• [ci] Fixing some failing tests for important models by @Abdennacer-Badaoui in #43231

New Contributors

• @efeecllk made their first contribution in #43040
• @sniper35 made their first contribution in #43068
• @Abhinavexists made their first contribution in #43137
• @vaibhav-research made their first contribution in #43106
• @Sailnagale made their first contribution in #43007
• @rogeryoungh made their first contribution in #42028
• @Haseebasif7 made their first contribution in #43029
• @victorywwong made their first contribution in #43216
• @aarushisingh04 made their first contribution in #43123
• @ColeMurray made their first contribution in #43140
• @davidfertube made their first contribution in #43236
• @skyvanguard made their first contribution in #43235
• @baptiste-aubertin made their first contribution in #41621

Full Changelog: v5.0.0rc2...v5.0.0rc3