The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.
345 commits (1.4%) · +41,407 / −27,632 lines · 28 authors
Led by thomwolf (161 commits)
First commits: thomwolf, Thomas Wolf, Victor SANH, Grégory Châtel, Tim Rault, Denis (+22 more)
Released: 0.1.2, v0.1.2, v0.2.0, v0.3.0, v0.4.0
2,582 commits (10.6%) · +125,358 / −53,542 lines · 223 authors
Led by thomwolf (755 commits)
First commits: Lysandre, Lysandre Debut, Rémi Louf, Aymeric Augustin, Morgan Funtowicz, Stefan Schweter (+206 more)
Released: 0.5.0, v0.5.0, v0.5.1, v0.6.0, v0.6.1 (+12 more)
3,277 commits (13.5%) · +397,655 / −189,940 lines · 534 authors
Led by Patrick von Platen (348 commits)
First commits: Sylvain Gugger, Stas Bekman, Manuel Romero, Suraj Patil, Funtowicz Morgan, Joe Davison (+481 more)
Released: v2.4.0, v2.4.1, v2.5.0, v2.5.1, v2.6.0 (+19 more)
2,397 commits (9.9%) · +508,146 / −170,115 lines · 423 authors
Led by Sylvain Gugger (407 commits)
First commits: Anton Lozhkov, Daniel Stancl, Li-Huai (Allan) Lin, Kamal Raj Kanakarajan, Bhadresh Savani, Gunjan Chhablani (+326 more)
Released: v4.2.0, 4.3.0.rc1, v4.3.0.rc1, v4.4.0, v4.5.0 (+10 more)
3,071 commits (12.6%) · +549,074 / −119,376 lines · 622 authors
Led by Yih-Dar (368 commits)
First commits: Joao Gante, Younes Belkada, amyeroberts, Sanchit Gandhi, Arthur, Partho (+513 more)
Released: v4.16.0
3,144 commits (12.9%) · +547,781 / −117,060 lines · 747 authors
Led by Yih-Dar (406 commits)
First commits: Marc Sun, Huazhong Ji, Yoach Lacombe, Susnato Dhar, jiaqiw09, Connor Henderson (+620 more)
Released: v4.33.1
2,850 commits (11.7%) · +504,771 / −185,874 lines · 761 authors
Led by Yih-Dar (180 commits)
First commits: Raushan Turganbay, Fanli Lin, Sai-Suraj-27, Yoni Gozlan, Pavel Iakubovskii, Sungmin Oh (+608 more)
3,909 commits (16.1%) · +961,173 / −1,040,971 lines · 849 authors
Led by Yih-Dar (338 commits)
First commits: Yao Matrix, Rémi Ouazan, Ákos Hadnagy, Ryan Mullins, Yaswanth Gali, Afanti (+660 more)
Released: v4.49.0-SmolVLM-2, v4.49.0-SigLIP-2, v4.49.0-AyaVision, v4.49.0-Mistral-3, v4.50.3-DeepSeek-3 (+19 more)
2,755 commits (11.3%) · +884,007 / −556,432 lines · 556 authors
Led by Yih-Dar (246 commits)
First commits: Tarek Ziade, guarin, Ting SUN, David Corvoysier, Shijin Zhang, Murat Raimbekov (+420 more)