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vLLM v0.24.0 Release Notes

Highlights

This release features 571 commits from 256 contributors (77 new)!

  • MiniMax-M3: Added support for the new MiniMax-M3 model (#45381), with a fast follow-on of BF16/FP8 indexer via MSA (#45892), MXFP4 support (#45896), FP8 sparse GQA (#45744), and extensive AMD/ROCm tuning — mxfp8 MoE/linear on gfx950 (#45725), fp8_per_channel for bf16 weights on MI300X (#45854), FP8 KV-cache fix (#45720), and packed-modules mapping (#45794). A MiniMax-M2 perf regression was also fixed (#45935).
  • DeepSeek-V4 keeps maturing: Following its debut, DeepSeek-V4 received another large optimization pass — a FlashInfer sparse index cache (2–4% TTFT) (#45863), prefill chunk-planning optimization (4% E2E throughput) (#45061), a cluster-cooperative topK kernel for low-latency (#43008), contiguous per-block KV allocations (#44577), TEP=16 for the block-FP8 shared expert (#46001), and native DSA indexer decode for next_n > 2 on SM100 (#45322). It is now enabled on SM120 alongside GLM-5.1 (#43477), with XPU (#44144, #44517, #45240) and ROCm (#44899, #45103, #45681) attention/MoE paths added.
  • Model Runner V2 (MRv2) continues to expand: MRv2 now supports quantized models by default (#44446), enables GraniteMoE by default (#45461), and gained migration of Qwen + DeepSeek-V2 MoE models (#42667), DFlash speculative decoding (#44586), and more accurate FP32 Gumbel sampling (#45996).
  • Streaming Parser Engine: A new streaming parser engine unifies tool-call/reasoning parsing across models, with parsers for Qwen3 (#45413), MiniMax-M2 (#45701), GLM-4.7/5.1/5.2 (#45915), and Nemotron V3 (#45755).
  • Diffusion LLMs: Added DiffusionGemma (#45163), including a CPU path (#45690) and structured-output guardrails for diffusion decoders (#45468).
  • WideEP / DeepEP v2: Integrated DeepEP v2 for expert parallelism (#41183), with follow-on robustness fixes (#46404, #46432).
  • Rust frontend matures further: Added API-key authentication (#44321), CORS (#45753), /tokenize + /detokenize (#44222), /pause /resume /is_paused (#44499), /abort_requests (#44382), /get_world_size (#44801), thinking_token_budget (#46137), a Python bridge for Rust tool parsers (#44624), and many new parsers and validation paths.
  • Device selection change: vLLM no longer sets CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES internally; a new device_ids argument is provided instead (#45026). On ROCm, a deprecation window for CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES has begun (#46636).

Model Support

  • New models: MiniMax-M3 (#45381), DiffusionGemma (#45163) + Gemma Diffusion on CPU (#45690), Hierarchical Reasoning Model — Text / HrmTextForCausalLM (#43098), OpenMOSS (#44124).
  • Gemma 4: Unified FlashAttention (FA4) across all layers + mm_prefix support (#42175); many parser/serving fixes — forced-JSON skip for required/named tool choice (#45795), parsing with thinking disabled (#45832), streaming reasoning-state init (#45852), reasoning rendering on assistant turns (#45867), offline-parser truncation/token-leak fix (#45553); legacy Gemma4 parsers replaced with an engine-based implementation (#45588).
  • DeepSeek-V4: OOM fix (#44914), MTP projection prefixing (#44821), supported KV-cache dtypes (#44892).
  • Qwen / multimodal: Qwen3-VL video loader (#44412), Qwen2-VL/Qwen2.5-VL processor-mapped video loader (#45555), Qwen3-VL multi-video processing optimization (#46026) and multi-video crash fix (#46305), Qwen3-Omni VIT cu_seqlens device fix (#44264), fused qk-rmsnorm-rope-gate for Qwen3.5 (#44176), Qwen3.5 EP weight-loading fix (#45002).
  • ViT full CUDA graph: GLM-4.1V (#40576), DeepSeek-OCR dual-path (#43586), Kimi-VL (#41992), mllama4 (#40660), Lfm2VL encoder (#44930).
  • Other model fixes: Llama4 weight loading (#45047) and streamed loading to avoid host-OOM (#44645), MiMo v2.x QKV TP sharding + FP4 (#45200), ColQwen3.5 retrieval correctness (#46108), EXAONE-4.5 vision encoder (#45073), MiDashengLM TP>1 audio-encoder crash (#44408), MiniCPM-o/V device-placement and image-size fixes (#43844, #42332, #44980, #45244), Cohere2 MoE weight loading + parser (#44747, #44907), Nemotron V3 reasoning-as-content (#39091), ColBERT AutoWeightsLoader + query/document embedding io processor (#44999, #45210).
  • Kernels: GLM-5 TRT-LLM ragged MLA prefill dimensions (#43525), GLM-5 router GEMM (#46385).

Engine Core

  • Model Runner V2: Quantized models by default (#44446), GraniteMoE default (#45461), Qwen/DSv2 MoE migration (#42667), DFlash (#44586), simplified async output handling (#45442), attention-group split on num_heads_q (#45564), LoRA warmup fix (#35536), more accurate FP32 Gumbel sampling (#45996), min_tokens off-by-one fix in the V2 GPU sampler (#46243), plus assorted model/config compatibility fixes (#45868).
  • Speculative decoding: Dynamic SD (#32374); DFlash with FlashInfer (#43081), mixed KV page sizes (#45181), and Qwen3Next targets (#45319); EAGLE3 support for Qwen3 (#43132); reduced TP communication for large-vocab drafts (#39419); race fix in async accepted counts (#45100); EAGLE multimodal encoder cache fixes (#46315).
  • KV cache & scheduler: KV-cache watermark to reduce preemptions (#44594), two-phase allocation for cross-group prefix-cache hits (#44409), Marconi-style admission policy for hybrid cache (#37898), prefix-cache retention for Mamba/linear attention (#45845), DS Mamba tail-copy for MTP align mode (#45473), reduced scheduler copy overhead (#45840).
  • Attention: Re-enabled cross-layer KV cache layout for MLA via stride-aware kernels (#45111), MLA prefill FA4 fp8 output (#43050), FlexAttention custom mask mods made fully cudagraphable (#45232), triton diff-kv backend for MiMo (#41797), FlashMLA sparse accuracy fix (#36616).
  • Weight loading & core: fastsafetensors ParallelLoader for weight loading (#40183), release of cached device memory under pressure on UMA GPUs (#45179), structured outputs for beam search (#35022), device_ids arg / no internal CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES (#45026), graceful fallback when numactl --membind is blocked (#45438), config-class registration before tokenizer init (#40299), async scheduling with prompt embeds for multimodal models (#45673).

Large Scale Serving & Distributed

  • Expert parallel: DeepEP v2 integration (#41183) with token-bound and topk-index fixes (#46404, #46432); NIXL EP — DBO with NIXL EP (#45275), top-k index dtype query (#45298), NVFP4 post-receive quantization skip (#45606), elastic-EP communicator (#45013); reject NCCL-based EPLB with async EPLB (#44978).
  • KV connectors / disaggregated serving: KV push from prefill to decode via NIXL (#35264); per-region KV transfer classification for mixed full-attn + MLA groups (#44583); Mooncake pipeline-parallel PD support (#44528), async lookup (#45659), compact chunk-hash zero-copy lookup (#45969), SWA-block skipping (#45444); P/D fixes with DP supervisor (#46628) and DSV4 disaggregation (#45831); removed P2pNcclConnector (#44854).
  • KV offloading: Multi-tier async batched lookup (#44193), packed HMA KV-cache layout (#46205, gated #46252), parallel-agnostic fs-tier cache (#44733), offloading-manager stats (#35669) and labeled/CPU-usage metrics (#45957, #45737), self-describing KV events (#43468), non-blocking idle flush (#45595), and numerous correctness/race fixes (#44784, #45823, #46231, #46278).
  • Distributed core: Prefill step cadence for better non-PD DP balancing (#44558), KV-event map encoding (#42892), one-shot fused all-reduce PDL NaN fix (#45448).

Hardware & Performance

  • NVIDIA / kernels: SM90 CUTLASS FP8 mm odd-M support via swap_ab (180–290% kernel speedup) (#44572), tuned fused_moe FP8 for Qwen3-Next-80B on H100 (+25%) (#44830), native DSA indexer decode on SM100 (#45322), cluster-cooperative topK for DeepSeek low-latency (#43008), PDL support for DeepGEMM (#46006), FlashInfer cutedsl NVFP4 GEMM (#42235) and cute-dsl MXFP8 linear kernel (#46393), new Helion kernels for FP8/RMSNorm quant (#36902, #33790, #36895, #34432).
  • torch stable ABI: Continued (and completed) migration of kernels to the libtorch stable ABI — MoE [10c/n] (#44565), Marlin [11a/n] (#45176), Machete [11b/n] (#45304), final _C library migration [12/n] (#45415).
  • AMD ROCm: Torch 2.11 (#45362); fused AR + RMSNorm + per-group FP8 quant (#42864), fused softplus-sqrt-topk MoE router under AITER (#44945), DSv4 flash-decode split-K kernel (#44899) and inverse-RoPE fusion (#45103), W4A16 FlyDSL MoE (#44400), A8W4 MoE CDNA4 swizzle gate for gpt-oss (#44804); deprecation window begun for CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES on ROCm (#46636).
  • Intel XPU: Sequence-parallel support (#38608), torch-xpu 2.12 (#42262), vllm-xpu-kernels v0.1.10 (#40367), W4A16 int4 group_size=32 MoE (#45136), DeepSeek-V4 attention/MoE paths (#44144, #44517, #45240), top-p sampling correctness fix (#44470).
  • CPU & other architectures: 2.5× faster ASR CPU preprocessing via multi-threading (#44612), CPU W4A16 INT4 MoE (#43409), cgroup memory-limit-aware KV cache sizing (#45086), RISC-V oneDNN W8A8 INT8 (#44478) and RVV micro-GEMM for WNA16 (#44324), pinned memory for WSL2 (#41496), ZenCPU runtime logging (#42726).
  • TPU: tpu-inference upgraded to v0.22.1 (#45793).
  • Misc perf: VLLM_TRITON_FORCE_FIRST_CONFIG to skip Triton autotuning (#42425), Triton recompile detection (#45631), fused multi-group block-table staged writes (#44944).

Quantization

  • Online & mixed-precision: Online FP8 per-token-per-channel (PTPC) quantization (#44132); modelopt_mixed support extended to Ampere/SM80-86 (#45306) and Turing/SM75 (#45375).
  • FP4 / MXFP: FlashInfer cutedsl NVFP4 GEMM backend (#42235) and cute-dsl MXFP8 linear kernel (#46393), MXFP4 W4A4 MoE CUTLASS E8M0 scale fix (#43557), SwiGLU clamp wired for NVFP4 MoE on non-Blackwell (#45836), flashinfer_cutlass allowed as a clamped NVFP4 MoE backend (#46492), NVFP4/OCP MX MoE emulation fix (#46254), FP8 MoE re-enabled on NVIDIA Thor (#46339).
  • GGUF / compressed-tensors / AWQ: GGUF quantization migrated to a plugin (#39612), compressed-tensors WNA16 MoE actorder fix (#41161) and KV-cache-scheme rejection (#45312), AWQ format on XPU (#43404) and AWQ dequantize fix on Intel XPU (#42727).
  • Kernels & correctness: QuantizedActivation linear-kernel contract (#44260), consolidated Marlin thread-tile padding (#45295), FP8 weight layout canonicalized to (K, N) (#44735), corrupt-output fix for MoE FP8 with LoRAs loaded (#42120), symmetric-quant regression fix in GPTQ/CT MoE (#45656), fp8_e5m2 KV cache allowed for non-fp8 checkpoints (#45040).

API & Frontend

  • Tool calling & parsing: Strict mode for tool calling in Chat Completions (#45003) and Responses API (#45396); new Streaming Parser Engine (#45413) with Qwen3, MiniMax-M2 (#45701), GLM-4.7/5.1/5.2 (#45915), Nemotron V3 (#45755) parsers; unified Parser consolidation in chat serving (#45548); numerous parser correctness fixes (#46047, #46091, #46159, #45763, #46351, #43984).
  • OpenAI / Responses: Real /v1/embeddings support for messages + chat_template_kwargs (#45173), multimodal token counts in usage.prompt_tokens_details (#45458), omit empty tool_calls from chat responses (#44105), Responses API streaming function_call id fix (#44608), Harmony refactor of streaming/non-streaming paths (#45171, #45104).
  • Anthropic Messages API: Cache-usage reporting in /v1/messages (#40912), mid-conversation system-message handling (#46025), inline system-message position preserved for prefix caching (#44602), tool_use argument-dropping fix (#45287).
  • Rust frontend: API-key auth (#44321), CORS (#45753), /tokenize + /detokenize (#44222), /pause /resume /is_paused (#44499), /abort_requests (#44382), /get_world_size (#44801), thinking_token_budget (#46137), parallel_tool_calls=false (#44760), continuous usage stats (#43965), model metadata in /v1/models (#45950), Python bridge for Rust tool parsers (#44624), dedicated runtime for HTTP/ZMQ (#46051), and many validation/correctness fixes.
  • Metrics: vllm:tool_call_parser_invocations_total (#44448), group-aware KV cache capacity in vllm:cache_config_info (#42206), MLA attention metrics for DeepSeek MFU estimation (#39457).
  • Pooling / embeddings: Validation for Cohere /v2/embed input exclusivity (#45640), non-negative rerank top_n (#46119), matryoshka embedding dimension bounds (#46313).
  • Benchmarks: BFCL tool-calling dataset for vllm bench serve (#42457), multi-turn benchmark api_key/custom headers (#44516), tokenizer-mismatch auto-correction (#44708).

Security

This release ships another coordinated security-hardening batch (much of it from security researcher @jperezdealgaba).

  • Denial of service: Audio decompression bomb in the speech-to-text endpoint (#44970), remote DoS via invalid recovered-token reinjection in speculative decoding (#44744), DoS via prompt_embeds on M-RoPE models (#45252), regex-compilation timeout guard in structured outputs (#45118), audio upload size limit before full materialization (#45510), audio decode duration limit in the chat-completions path (#45908).
  • Information disclosure: int32 truncation in the GGUF dequantize kernels (#44971).
  • Input validation & hardening: Image EXIF orientation and tRNS transparency handling (#44974), rejection of non-finite temperature/repetition_penalty (#45116), sanitize_message applied to Anthropic and STT error paths (#45119).
  • Dependencies: Upgrade Starlette to ≥ 1.0.1 to fix CVE-2026-48710 (#45675).

Dependencies

  • Torch 2.11 on ROCm (#45362), torch-xpu 2.12 (#42262), tpu-inference v0.22.1 (#45793), NIXL v0.10.1 for XPU (#40287), Starlette ≥ 1.0.1 (#45675).
  • mistral_common is now optional via deferred import (#45305); CUDA Dockerfiles upgraded from GCC 10 to GCC 12 for C++20 (#44923); spinloop extension skipped on Python < 3.11 (#44783).

Deprecations & Removals

  • Removed models: ERNIE (obsolete) (#45127), Xverse (#45638), Dots1 (#45637), Bamba (#45990), Mono-InternVL (#45129), InternLM registry alias (#45128).
  • Deprecated: First-generation Qwen and QwenVL models (#45131), Transformers v4 support (#45161), CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES on ROCm (#46636); general deprecations for v0.23/v0.24 (#44992).

New Contributors

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who made this release possible!

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