Highlights

• Revamped the build pipeline to use maturin
• Reduced allocations (speedup for small safetensors files with many small tensors)

What's Changed

• Back on dev. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/313
• Clarify specification around endianness and header padding by @akx in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/306
• Adding new target for m1 by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/317
• Fixing macos 13 release script (by prebuilding). by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/315
• Cache dir all the time. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/319
• Supporting whisper conversion. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/320
• add tensorshare to featured projects by @chainyo in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/322
• Fix Bench GH action. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/323
• Yaml is nice. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/325
• Fixing big endian. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/327
• Fixing boolean + numpy > 1.20 by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/326
• Add NumPy for all backends dependencies by @chainyo in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/332
• impl View for TensorView by @coreylowman in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/329
• Reworked the release script entirely by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/334
• Preparing small patch release (Big Endian fix). by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/335
• Temporary revert of the breaking change (keep it for 0.4.0). by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/336
• Don't release rust versions on RC by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/337
• Fixing release script. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/338
• Python 3.8 for arm by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/339
• Win64. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/342
• win64 by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/343
• Trying out maturin. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/344
• Reduce memory allocations by @cospectrum in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/350
• [docs] Convert weights by @stevhliu in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/345
• Update types for load_model filename by @kevinhu in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/356
• Fixing release script for windows aarch64 and 3.12 by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/348
• Minor docstring edit to flax.py by @paulbricman in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/359
• Stop recreating the hashmap all the time. by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/363
• fix: add py.typed by @b-kamphorst in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/365
• Preparing a new release (0.4.0). by @Narsil in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/366

New Contributors

• @akx made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/306
• @chainyo made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/322
• @coreylowman made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/329
• @cospectrum made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/350
• @stevhliu made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/345
• @kevinhu made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/356
• @paulbricman made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/359
• @b-kamphorst made their first contribution in https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/pull/365

Full Changelog: https://github.com/huggingface/safetensors/compare/v0.3.2...v0.4.0