# huggingface\_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning

DevFeed: [huggingface\_hub v1.0: Five Years of Building the Foundation of Open Machine Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/huggingface-hub-v1-0-five-years-of-building-the-foundation-of-open-machine-learning-7248.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface-hub-v1>)

Author: Lucain Pouget; Célina Hanouti; Lysandre; Julien Chaumond

Published: 2025-10-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [huggingface\_hub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/huggingface-hub.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [huggingface-hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/huggingface-hub.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/releases.md>), [v1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/v1.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents huggingface_hub v1.0, describing its performance improvements, redesigned Typer-based CLI, adoption of a new file-transfer backend, and backward-compatibility goals. It also traces the library's evolution from a Git-based utility into a shared foundation for accessing and distributing machine learning models and datasets on the Hugging Face Hub.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.