vLLM: Releases and Overview

September 18, 2026

High-throughput LLM serving engine built around PagedAttention. Handles concurrent requests and quantized weights (AWQ / GPTQ / FP8) and is widely used on server-class GPUs.

Category: Inference engines and runtimes. Part of our engine and tool tracker.

At a Glance

Item Value
Repository vllm-project/vllm
License Apache-2.0
Main language Python
GitHub stars 91,980 (as of 2026-09-17)
Latest release v0.29.0 (2026-09-09)
Install / docs official documentation

The project describes itself as: “A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs”

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
v0.29.0 2026-09-09 GitHub
v0.28.0 2026-08-26 GitHub
v0.27.1 2026-08-11 GitHub
v0.27.0 2026-08-11 GitHub
v0.26.0 2026-07-27 GitHub
v0.25.1 2026-07-14 GitHub
v0.25.0 2026-07-12 GitHub
v0.24.0 2026-06-30 GitHub
v0.23.0 2026-06-15 GitHub
v0.22.1 2026-06-05 GitHub
v0.22.0 2026-05-29 GitHub
v0.21.0 2026-05-15 GitHub
v0.20.2 2026-05-10 GitHub
v0.20.1 2026-05-04 GitHub
v0.20.0 2026-04-28 GitHub
v0.19.1 2026-04-18 GitHub
v0.19.0 2026-04-03 GitHub
v0.18.1 2026-03-31 GitHub
v0.18.0 2026-03-21 GitHub
v0.17.1 2026-03-11 GitHub
v0.17.0 2026-03-07 GitHub
v0.16.0 2026-02-26 GitHub
v0.15.1 2026-02-05 GitHub
v0.15.0 2026-01-29 GitHub
v0.14.1 2026-01-25 GitHub
v0.14.0 2026-01-20 GitHub
v0.13.0 2025-12-19 GitHub
v0.12.0 2025-12-03 GitHub
v0.11.2 2025-11-20 GitHub
v0.11.1 2025-11-19 GitHub
v0.11.0 2025-10-03 GitHub
v0.10.2 2025-09-13 GitHub
v0.10.1.1 2025-08-21 GitHub
v0.10.1 2025-08-18 GitHub
v0.10.0 2025-07-25 GitHub
v0.9.2 2025-07-08 GitHub
v0.9.1 2025-06-11 GitHub
v0.9.0.1 2025-05-31 GitHub
v0.9.0 2025-05-15 GitHub
v0.8.5.post1 2025-05-03 GitHub
v0.8.5 2025-04-29 GitHub
v0.8.4 2025-04-14 GitHub
v0.8.3 2025-04-06 GitHub
v0.8.2 2025-03-24 GitHub
v0.8.1 2025-03-20 GitHub
v0.8.0 2025-03-19 GitHub
v0.7.3 2025-02-21 GitHub
v0.7.2 2025-02-06 GitHub
v0.7.1 2025-02-02 GitHub
v0.7.0 2025-01-27 GitHub
v0.6.6.post1 2024-12-27 GitHub
v0.6.6 2024-12-27 GitHub
v0.6.5 2024-12-18 GitHub
v0.6.4.post1 2024-11-16 GitHub
v0.6.4 2024-11-15 GitHub
v0.6.3.post1 2024-10-18 GitHub
v0.6.3 2024-10-15 GitHub
v0.6.2 2024-09-26 GitHub
v0.6.1.post2 2024-09-14 GitHub
v0.6.1.post1 2024-09-13 GitHub

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Last updated 2026-09-18 (JST). Facts above come from the GitHub API; the one-paragraph summary is written by the site’s editors.