Diffusers 0.41.0 adds a Qwen-Image 2.1 pipeline and deprecates ONNX support

On October 6, 2026 Hugging Face published Diffusers 0.41.0 on GitHub. The release notes say it adds Qwen-Image 2.1, with text-to-image generation, image editing, native transparency, and LoRA training, and introduces tensor-parallel checkpoint loading in which each rank reads its own slice of sharded weights. The notes deprecate ONNX support in favor of Optimum and remove previously deprecated APIs, including the `LuminaText2ImgPipeline` and `Lumina2Text2ImgPipeline` aliases. They also say minor releases will now be coordinated around new model integrations, as in Transformers. Qwen-Image 2.1 is a third-party model and is not a catalog entry; the notes do not state its license.1