v0.4.2rc0

What's Changed

• Back on dev. by @Narsil in #313
• Clarify specification around endianness and header padding by @akx in #306
• Adding new target for m1 by @Narsil in #317
• Fixing macos 13 release script (by prebuilding). by @Narsil in #315
• Cache dir all the time. by @Narsil in #319
• Supporting whisper conversion. by @Narsil in #320
• add tensorshare to featured projects by @chainyo in #322
• Fix Bench GH action. by @Narsil in #323
• Yaml is nice. by @Narsil in #325
• Fixing big endian. by @Narsil in #327
• Fixing boolean + numpy > 1.20 by @Narsil in #326
• Add NumPy for all backends dependencies by @chainyo in #332
• impl View for TensorView by @coreylowman in #329
• Reworked the release script entirely by @Narsil in #334
• Preparing small patch release (Big Endian fix). by @Narsil in #335
• Temporary revert of the breaking change (keep it for 0.4.0). by @Narsil in #336
• Don't release rust versions on RC by @Narsil in #337
• Fixing release script. by @Narsil in #338
• Python 3.8 for arm by @Narsil in #339
• Win64. by @Narsil in #342
• win64 by @Narsil in #343
• Trying out maturin. by @Narsil in #344
• Reduce memory allocations by @cospectrum in #350
• [docs] Convert weights by @stevhliu in #345
• Update types for load_model filename by @kevinhu in #356
• Fixing release script for windows aarch64 and 3.12 by @Narsil in #348
• Minor docstring edit to flax.py by @paulbricman in #359
• Stop recreating the hashmap all the time. by @Narsil in #363
• fix: add py.typed by @b-kamphorst in #365
• Preparing a new release (0.4.0). by @Narsil in #366
• Supporting bfloat16 for tensorflow + jax (was failing because of intermediary numpy). by @Narsil in #382
• Fix typo by @cccntu in #377
• Support fp8_e4m3/fp8_e5m2 by @Narsil in #383
• Better convert. by @Narsil in #384
• Ignore closed PRs to avoid spam. by @Narsil in #385
• Adding support for Ascend NPU by @statelesshz in #372
• Fix convert. by @Narsil in #390
• Upgrade dev version. by @Narsil in #392
• Fix/errors for some models including Mistral-7b and Flan-ul2 by @lachlancahill in #388
• Releasing for python 3.12/3.13 and testing on 3.11. by @Narsil in #393
• Adding stale action. by @Narsil in #398
• Document huggingface_hub.get_safetensors_metadata by @Wauplin in #417
• [docs] Update list of projects using safetensors by @mishig25 in #418
• Adding MLX backend. by @Narsil in #419
• [docs, untested] Attempt to fix links to source by @pcuenca in #420
• [docs] Use hfoptions for metadata by @mishig25 in #424
• Fix path in version_tag_suffix by @pcuenca in #426
• Removing old doc. by @Narsil in #427
• Fix missing Apache-2.0 license file in the published crate by @musicinmybrain in #416
• Implement PyTorch support for float8 types (F8_E5M2 and F8_E4M3) by @zeux in #404
• Fix mispelling of dictionary. by @hayden-donnelly in #410
• Add "xpu" device tag to the device list to support Intel GPU by @Narsil in #428
• Skip MLX bench for the bench runner. by @Narsil in #429

New Contributors

• @akx made their first contribution in #306
• @chainyo made their first contribution in #322
• @coreylowman made their first contribution in #329
• @cospectrum made their first contribution in #350
• @stevhliu made their first contribution in #345
• @kevinhu made their first contribution in #356
• @paulbricman made their first contribution in #359
• @b-kamphorst made their first contribution in #365
• @cccntu made their first contribution in #377
• @statelesshz made their first contribution in #372
• @lachlancahill made their first contribution in #388
• @Wauplin made their first contribution in #417
• @pcuenca made their first contribution in #420
• @musicinmybrain made their first contribution in #416
• @zeux made their first contribution in #404
• @hayden-donnelly made their first contribution in #410

Full Changelog: v0.3.2...v0.4.2rc0