What's new in 2.0.0 (2026-01-31)

These are the changes in inference v2.0.0.

New features

FEAT: add video gguf cache_manager.py by @OliverBryant in #4462
FEAT: [model] Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B support by @OliverBryant in #4469
FEAT: [UI] move featured to backend API data-driven; remove frontend hardcoding. by @yiboyasss in #4466
FEAT: [model] Qwen3-VL-Reranker-8B support by @OliverBryant in #4472
FEAT: llm cache config in model json to skip unnecessary downloads by @OliverBryant in #4480
FEAT: [UI] add official website and model hub links. by @yiboyasss in #4493
FEAT: add custom llm models config json analysis by @OliverBryant in #4478
FEAT: [model] MinerU2.5-2509-1.2B support by @leslie2046 in #4510
FEAT: Introduce MinerU 2.5 OCR model. by @leslie2046 in #4511
FEAT: add chat_template.jinja support by @OliverBryant in #4526
FEAT: support engines for virtualenv by @OliverBryant in #4497
FEAT: [model] Z-Image support by @OliverBryant in #4546
FEAT: [model] GLM-4.6 support by @Jun-Howie in #4525
FEAT: [model] Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B support by @OliverBryant in #4470
FEAT: [UI] use browser locale as default language. by @yiboyasss in #4539
FEAT: [model] Qwen3-VL-Reranker-2B support by @OliverBryant in #4471

ENH: update 3 models JSON ("HunyuanVideo", "gme-Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct", "gme-Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct") by @OliverBryant in #4464
ENH: update models JSON [embedding, image, llm, video] by @XprobeBot in #4463
ENH: update models JSON [llm] by @XprobeBot in #4490
ENH: update model "Fun-ASR-Nano-2512" JSON by @leslie2046 in #4496
ENH: update model "Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512" JSON by @leslie2046 in #4498
ENH: update model "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B" JSON by @OliverBryant in #4503
ENH: update models JSON [embedding, image, llm, rerank] by @XprobeBot in #4524
ENH: update models JSON [embedding, image, llm, rerank] by @XprobeBot in #4534
ENH: update model "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B" JSON by @OliverBryant in #4552
BLD: remove Dockerfile for version CU12.4 by @zwt-1234 in #4487
REF: [UI] remove featureModels array. by @yiboyasss in #4488

BUG: fix has_musa_device error by @OliverBryant in #4477
BUG: [xavier] fix xavier hash function to ensure prefix cache hit by @llyycchhee in #4482
BUG: image/audio/video download hub exclude modelscope by @OliverBryant in #4483
BUG: [UI] historical parameter backfill bug. by @yiboyasss in #4479
BUG: deepseek ocr markdown bug by @OliverBryant in #4491
BUG: new vllm version cannot launch embedding models by @OliverBryant in #4489
BUG: Failed to download model 'Fun-ASR-MLT-Nano-2512' after multiple retries by @leslie2046 in #4537
BUG: transformers version < 5.0.0 by @OliverBryant in #4553
BUG: cachemanager makedirs only init once to prevent from stuck when downloading by @llyycchhee in #4551

DOC: add v1.17.0 release note by @qinxuye in #4467
DOC: add limitations for Xavier by @ZhikaiGuo960110 in #4486
DOC: add v2.0 doc by @OliverBryant in #4545
DOC: add cudnn/nccl/cusparselt error solution in virtualenv's doc by @OliverBryant in #4556

Full Changelog: v1.17.0...v2.0.0