@huggingface/transformers breaking changes
Every breaking API change we have recorded in @huggingface/transformers on npm: 1,727 breaking changes in 2 versions. Below are its newest 2 versions, removals and renames first, each with its source.
Newest change September 16, 2026
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4.3.0
- Removed
Unused code and exports were removed in this release. The notes do not name them, so check your imports if you used any internal exports. github.com - Removed
Tensor._getitem
Tensor._getitem was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.3.0 npmjs.com - Removed
Tensor.indexOf
Tensor.indexOf was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.3.0 npmjs.com - Signature changed
ChatterboxModel.forward
Was forward({input_ids, attention_mask, audio_values, exaggeration, position_ids, inputs_embeds, past_key_values, generation_config, logits_processor, audio_features, audio_tokens, speaker_embeddings, speaker_features, ...kwargs}: {[x... npmjs.com - Signature changed
Florence2ForConditionalGeneration.forward
Was forward({input_ids, pixel_values, attention_mask, decoder_input_ids, decoder_attention_mask, encoder_outputs, past_key_values, inputs_embeds, decoder_inputs_embeds}: {input_ids: any; pixel_values: any; attention_mask: any... npmjs.com - Signature changed
full_like
Was function full_like(tensor: any, fill_value: any): Tensor; now function full_like(tensor: Tensor, fill_value: number | bigint | boolean): Tensor. npmjs.com - Signature changed
Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration.forward
Was forward({input_ids, attention_mask, pixel_values, input_features, input_features_mask, position_ids, inputs_embeds, per_layer_inputs, past_key_values, generation_config, logits_processor, ...kwargs}: {[x: string]: any; input_ids?: any... npmjs.com - Signature changed
ImageProcessor._call
Was _call(images: RawImage[], ...args: any[]): Promise<ImageProcessorResult>; now _call(images: RawImage | RawImage[], ...args: any[]): Promise<ImageProcessorResult>. npmjs.com - Signature changed
InterruptableStoppingCriteria._call
Was _call(input_ids: any, scores: any): any[]; now _call(input_ids: number[][], scores: number[][]): boolean[]. npmjs.com - Signature changed
load_image
Was const load_image: any; now const load_image: typeof RawImage.read. npmjs.com
And 14 more in this version.
4.0.0
- Removed
AlbertTokenizer._tokenize_helper
AlbertTokenizer._tokenize_helper was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens_map
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens_map was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens_splitter
AlbertTokenizer.added_tokens_splitter was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.additional_special_tokens
AlbertTokenizer.additional_special_tokens was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.clean_up_tokenization_spaces
AlbertTokenizer.clean_up_tokenization_spaces was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.decoder
AlbertTokenizer.decoder was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.do_lowercase_and_remove_accent
AlbertTokenizer.do_lowercase_and_remove_accent was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.legacy
AlbertTokenizer.legacy was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com - Removed
AlbertTokenizer.model
AlbertTokenizer.model was removed in @huggingface/transformers 4.0.0 npmjs.com
And 1,693 more in this version.
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