Diffusers: Releases and Overview

September 18, 2026

Hugging Face’s Python library for diffusion models; the standard way to run image, video and audio generators from code.

Category: Image, video and audio. Part of our engine and tool tracker.

At a Glance

Item Value
Repository huggingface/diffusers
License Apache-2.0
Main language Python
GitHub stars 34,531 (as of 2026-09-17)
Latest release v0.40.0 (2026-08-20)
Install / docs official documentation

The project describes itself as: “🤗 Diffusers: State-of-the-art diffusion models for image, video, and audio generation in PyTorch.”

Release History

Compiled by Local Model Watch from the project’s GitHub releases. Pre-releases are omitted. Where we wrote an article about a release, it is linked in the last column; smaller releases are tracked here only.

Version Released Release notes Our article
v0.40.0 2026-08-20 GitHub
v0.39.0 2026-07-03 GitHub
v0.38.0 2026-05-01 GitHub
v0.37.1 (Fixes for AutoModel type hints in Modular Pipelines and Flux Klein LoRA loading ) 2026-03-25 GitHub
v0.37.0 2026-03-06 GitHub
v0.36.0 2025-12-08 GitHub
v0.35.2 (🐞 fixes for transformers models, imports, ) 2025-10-15 GitHub
v0.35.1 2025-08-20 GitHub
v0.35.0 2025-08-19 GitHub
v0.34.0 2025-06-25 GitHub
v0.33.1 2025-04-10 GitHub
v0.33.0 2025-04-09 GitHub
v0.32.2 2025-01-16 GitHub
v0.32.1 2024-12-25 GitHub
v0.32.0 2024-12-24 GitHub
v0.31.0 2024-10-22 GitHub
v0.30.3 2024-09-17 GitHub
v0.30.2 2024-08-31 GitHub
v0.30.1 2024-08-24 GitHub
v0.30.0 2024-08-07 GitHub
v0.29.2 2024-06-27 GitHub
v0.29.1 2024-06-21 GitHub
v0.29.0 2024-06-13 GitHub
v0.28.2 2024-06-05 GitHub
v0.28.1 2024-06-04 GitHub
v0.28.0 2024-05-27 GitHub
v0.27.2 2024-03-20 GitHub
v0.27.1 2024-03-19 GitHub
v0.27.0 2024-03-15 GitHub
v0.26.3 2024-02-13 GitHub
v0.26.2 2024-02-06 GitHub
v0.26.1 2024-02-02 GitHub
v0.26.0 2024-02-01 GitHub
v0.25.1 (Patch release) 2024-01-18 GitHub
v0.25.0 2023-12-27 GitHub
v0.24.0 2023-11-30 GitHub
v0.23.1 ([Patch release] Make sure we install correct PEFT version) 2023-11-16 GitHub
v0.23.0 2023-11-10 GitHub
v0.22.3 2023-11-08 GitHub
v0.22.2 2023-11-08 GitHub
v0.22.1 (Patch Release: Fix community vs. hub pipelines revision) 2023-11-06 GitHub
v0.22.0 2023-11-06 GitHub
v0.21.4 (Patch Release: Fix Lora fusing/unfusing) 2023-09-30 GitHub
v0.21.3 (Patch Release: Fix LoRA attention processor for xformers.) 2023-09-28 GitHub
v0.21.2 (Patch Release: CPU offloading + Lora load/Text inv load & Multi Adapter) 2023-09-19 GitHub
v0.21.1 2023-09-14 GitHub
v0.21.0 2023-09-14 GitHub
v0.20.2 2023-09-01 GitHub
v0.20.1 (Patch Release: Fix torch.compile() support for ControlNets) 2023-08-28 GitHub
v0.20.0 2023-08-17 GitHub
v0.19.3 (Patch release: Fix incorrect filenaming) 2023-07-30 GitHub
v0.19.2 (Patch Release: Support for SDXL Kohya-style LoRAs, Fix batched inference SDXL Img2Img, Improve watermarker) 2023-07-29 GitHub
v0.19.1 (Patch Release: Fix torch compile and local_files_only) 2023-07-28 GitHub
v0.19.0 2023-07-27 GitHub
v0.18.2 2023-07-12 GitHub
v0.18.1 (Patch Release for Stable Diffusion XL 0.9) 2023-07-08 GitHub
v0.18.0 (Shap-E, Consistency Models, Video2Video) 2023-07-07 GitHub
v0.17.1 2023-06-12 GitHub
v0.17.0 2023-06-09 GitHub
v0.16.1 2023-04-28 GitHub

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