What's Changed

• [Model] use AutoWeightsLoader for bart by @calvin0327 in #18299
• [Model] Support VLMs with transformers backend by @zucchini-nlp in #20543
• [bugfix] fix syntax warning caused by backslash by @1195343015 in #21251
• [CI] Cleanup modelscope version constraint in Dockerfile by @yankay in #21243
• [Docs] Add RFC Meeting to Issue Template by @simon-mo in #21279
• Add the instruction to run e2e validation manually before release by @huydhn in #21023
• [Bugfix] Fix missing placeholder in logger debug by @DarkLight1337 in #21280
• [Model][1/N] Support multiple poolers at model level by @DarkLight1337 in #21227
• [Docs] Fix hardcoded links in docs by @hmellor in #21287
• [Docs] Make tables more space efficient in supported_models.md by @hmellor in #21291
• [Misc] unify variable for LLM instance by @andyxning in #20996
• Add Nvidia ModelOpt config adaptation by @Edwardf0t1 in #19815
• [Misc] Add sliding window to flashinfer test by @WoosukKwon in #21282
• [CPU] Enable shared-memory based pipeline parallel for CPU backend by @bigPYJ1151 in #21289
• [BugFix] make utils.current_stream thread-safety (#21252) by @simpx in #21253
• [Misc] Add dummy maverick test by @minosfuture in #21199
• [Attention] Clean up iRoPE in V1 by @LucasWilkinson in #21188
• [DP] Fix Prometheus Logging by @robertgshaw2-redhat in #21257
• Fix bad lm-eval fork by @mgoin in #21318
• [perf] Speed up align sum kernels by @hj-mistral in #21079
• [v1][sampler] Inplace logprobs comparison to get the token rank by @houseroad in #21283
• [XPU] Enable external_launcher to serve as an executor via torchrun by @chaojun-zhang in #21021
• [Doc] Fix CPU doc format by @bigPYJ1151 in #21316
• [Intel GPU] Ray Compiled Graph avoid NCCL for Intel GPU by @ratnampa in #21338
• Revert "[Performance] Performance improvements in non-blockwise fp8 CUTLASS MoE (#20762) by @minosfuture in #21334
• [Core] Minimize number of dict lookup in _maybe_evict_cached_block by @Jialin in #21281
• [V1] [Hybrid] Add new test to verify that hybrid views into KVCacheTensor are compatible by @tdoublep in #21300
• [Refactor] Fix Compile Warning #1444-D by @yewentao256 in #21208
• Fix kv_cache_dtype handling for out-of-tree HPU plugin by @kzawora-intel in #21302
• [Misc] DeepEPHighThroughtput - Enable Inductor pass by @varun-sundar-rabindranath in #21311
• [Bug] DeepGemm: Fix Cuda Init Error by @yewentao256 in #21312
• Update fp4 quantize API by @wenscarl in #21327
• [Feature][eplb] add verify ep or tp or dp by @lengrongfu in #21102
• Add arcee model by @alyosha-swamy in #21296
• [Bugfix] Fix eviction cached blocked logic by @simon-mo in #21357
• [Misc] Remove deprecated args in v0.10 by @kebe7jun in #21349
• [Core] Optimize update checks in LogitsProcessor by @Jialin in #21245
• [benchmark] Port benchmark request sent optimization to benchmark_serving by @Jialin in #21209
• [Core] Introduce popleft_n and append_n in FreeKVCacheBlockQueue to further optimize block_pool by @Jialin in #21222
• [Misc] unify variable for LLM instance v2 by @andyxning in #21356
• [perf] Add fused MLA QKV + strided layernorm by @mickaelseznec in #21116
• [feat]: add SM100 support for cutlass FP8 groupGEMM by @djmmoss in #20447
• [Perf] Cuda Kernel for Per Token Group Quant by @yewentao256 in #21083
• Adds parallel model weight loading for runai_streamer by @bbartels in #21330
• [feat] Enable mm caching for transformers backend by @zucchini-nlp in #21358
• Revert "[Refactor] Fix Compile Warning #1444-D (#21208)" by @yewentao256 in #21384
• Add tokenization_kwargs to encode for embedding model truncation by @Receiling in #21033
• [Bugfix] Decode Tokenized IDs to Strings for hf_processor in llm.chat() with model_impl=transformers by @ariG23498 in #21353
• [CI/Build] Fix test failure due to updated model repo by @DarkLight1337 in #21375
• Fix Flashinfer Allreduce+Norm enable disable calculation based on fi_allreduce_fusion_max_token_num by @xinli-git in #21325
• [Model] Add Qwen3CoderToolParser by @ranpox in #21396
• [Misc] Copy HF_TOKEN env var to Ray workers by @ruisearch42 in #21406
• [BugFix] Fix ray import error mem cleanup bug by @joerunde in #21381
• [CI/Build] Fix model executor tests by @DarkLight1337 in #21387
• [Bugfix][ROCm][Build] Fix build regression on ROCm by @gshtras in #21393
• Simplify weight loading in Transformers backend by @hmellor in #21382
• [BugFix] Update python to python3 calls for image; fix prefix & input calculations. by @ericehanley in #21391
• [BUGFIX] deepseek-v2-lite failed due to fused_qkv_a_proj name update by @xuechendi in #21414
• [Bugfix][CUDA] fixes CUDA FP8 kv cache dtype supported by @elvischenv in #21420
• Changing "amdproduction" allocation. by @Alexei-V-Ivanov-AMD in #21409
• [Bugfix] Fix nightly transformers CI failure by @Isotr0py in #21427
• [Core] Add basic unit test for maybe_evict_cached_block by @Jialin in #21400
• [Cleanup] Only log MoE DP setup warning if DP is enabled by @mgoin in #21315
• add clear messages for deprecated models by @youkaichao in #21424
• [Bugfix] ensure tool_choice is popped when tool_choice:null is passed in json payload by @gcalmettes in #19679
• Fixed typo in profiling logs by @sergiopaniego in #21441
• [Docs] Fix bullets and grammars in tool_calling.md by @windsonsea in #21440
• [Sampler] Introduce logprobs mode for logging by @houseroad in #21398
• Mamba V2 Test not Asserting Failures. by @fabianlim in #21379
• [Misc] fixed nvfp4_moe test failures due to invalid kwargs by @chenyang78 in #21246
• [Docs] Clean up v1/metrics.md by @windsonsea in #21449
• [Model] add Hunyuan V1 Dense Model support. by @kzjeef in #21368
• [V1] Check all pooling tasks during profiling by @DarkLight1337 in #21299
• [Bugfix][Qwen][DCA] fixes bug in dual-chunk-flash-attn backend for qwen 1m models. by @sighingnow in #21364
• [Tests] Add tests for headless internal DP LB by @njhill in #21450
• [Core][Model] PrithviMAE Enablement on vLLM v1 engine by @christian-pinto in #20577
• Add test case for compiling multiple graphs by @sarckk in #21044
• [TPU][TEST] Fix the downloading issue in TPU v1 test 11. by @QiliangCui in #21418
• [Core] Add reload_weights RPC method by @22quinn in #20096
• [V1] Fix local chunked attention always disabled by @sarckk in #21419
• [V0 Deprecation] Remove Prompt Adapters by @mgoin in #20588
• [Core] Freeze gc during cuda graph capture to speed up init by @mgoin in #21146
• feat(gguf_loader): accept HF repo paths & URLs for GGUF by @hardikkgupta in #20793
• [Frontend] Set MAX_AUDIO_CLIP_FILESIZE_MB via env var instead of hardcoding by @deven-labovitch in #21374
• [Misc] Add dummy maverick test to CI by @minosfuture in #21324
• [XPU][UT] increase intel xpu CI test scope by @Liangliang-Ma in #21492
• [Bugfix] Fix casing warning by @MatthewBonanni in #21468
• [Bugfix] Fix example disagg_example_p2p_nccl_xpyd.sh zombie process by @david6666666 in #21437
• [BugFix]: Batch generation from prompt_embeds fails for long prompts by @KazusatoOoko in #21390
• [BugFix] Fix KVConnector TP worker aggregation by @njhill in #21473
• [DP] Internal Load Balancing Per Node [one-pod-per-node] by @robertgshaw2-redhat in #21238
• Dump input metadata on crash for async scheduling by @WoosukKwon in #21258
• [BugFix] Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES before spawning the subprocesses by @yinghai in #21211
• Add think chunk by @juliendenize in #21333

New Contributors

• @chaojun-zhang made their first contribution in #21021
• @alyosha-swamy made their first contribution in #21296
• @bbartels made their first contribution in #21330
• @Receiling made their first contribution in #21033
• @ariG23498 made their first contribution in #21353
• @xinli-git made their first contribution in #21325
• @ranpox made their first contribution in #21396
• @ericehanley made their first contribution in #21391
• @sergiopaniego made their first contribution in #21441
• @hardikkgupta made their first contribution in #20793
• @deven-labovitch made their first contribution in #21374
• @MatthewBonanni made their first contribution in #21468
• @david6666666 made their first contribution in #21437
• @KazusatoOoko made their first contribution in #21390

Full Changelog: v0.10.0rc1...v0.10.0rc2