https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/hubs/open-source-foundations/ Dated, sourced news items about the organizations and records featured in the USASI Open-source foundations and stewards hub. Independent project. Not a United States government website. en-us Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/mlflow-3-17-0-released/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/mlflow-3-17-0-released/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release On October 7, 2026 the MLflow project published version 3.17.0 on GitHub. The release notes list "Jev Decisions Across Evaluation, Gateway, and Tracing", which lets TypeSafe models be used in built-in scorers and custom judges, and "Fine-Grained Permissions for Shared Resources", with wildcard grants and explicit DENY for contained resource types such as runs, traces, and versions. They also describe opt-in daily summaries for trace analytics. The notes say SQL-backed servers need a coordinated `mlflow db upgrade` with all writers stopped, and that mixed-version rolling upgrades are not supported. USASI has not tested these changes. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/vllm-0-31-0-released/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/vllm-0-31-0-released/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release On October 5, 2026 the vLLM project published version 0.31.0 on GitHub. The release notes highlight a new `vllm preload` command that launches a weight-cache daemon to keep post-quantized weights in GPU memory across engine restarts, and experimental engine snapshots (`vllm snapshot create/restore`) that use CRIU to restore a fully initialized TP1 engine. Under security, the notes say per-request `mm_processor_kwargs` and `media_io_kwargs` are now rejected unless `--trust-request-mm-kwargs` is set. The release also lists breaking changes, including the removal of `tokenizer_mode="slow"`, and performance work for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. USASI has not tested any of these changes. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/mlcommons-publishes-mlperf-inference-v6-1/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/mlcommons-publishes-mlperf-inference-v6-1/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release MLCommons published results for version 6.1 of the MLPerf Inference benchmark suite on September 16, 2026. The round added two tests: an end-to-end retrieval-augmented generation test that runs a question-answering pipeline of several separate models, and an Edge Agentic Inference test built around multi-turn workloads such as agentic coding. Speculative decoding is now allowed in the interactive scenario for two of the inference benchmarks. Results are published on MLCommons' datacenter and edge results pages.