0.45.1

Breaking Changes

📅 Jan 23, 2025📦 bitsandbytesView on GitHub →

⚠ 1 breaking✨ 2 features🐛 2 fixes🔧 1 symbols

Summary

This patch release focuses on dependency compatibility, notably setting the minimum PyTorch version to 2.0.0 and ensuring compatibility with triton>=3.2.0. It also includes build system updates and packaging cleanup.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

The minimum required PyTorch version has been increased to 2.0.0. Users on older PyTorch versions must upgrade to 2.0.0 or newer to use this release.

Migration Steps

Ensure your PyTorch installation is version 2.0.0 or higher.

✨ New Features

Compatibility established for triton version 3.2.0 and newer.
Initial build system support added for NVIDIA Blackwell B100 GPUs, RTX 50 Blackwell series GPUs, and Jetson Thor Blackwell (binaries for these platforms are forthcoming in future releases).

🐛 Bug Fixes

Removed unit tests from distributed wheels.
Removed unused dotfiles and cleaned up unused kernels/C++ code.

🔧 Affected Symbols

triton.ops