Thanks to our contributors
We would like to give our special thanks to all the contributors who made the new version of Flower possible (in git shortlog order):
Dimitris Stripelis, Heng Pan, Javier, Taner Topal, Yan Gao
What's new?
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Improve time drift compensation in automatic SuperNode authentication (#4899)
In addition to allowing for a time delay (positive time difference), SuperLink now also accounts for time drift, which might result in negative time differences between timestamps in SuperLink and SuperNode during authentication.
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Rename constants for gRPC metadata (#4902)
All metadata keys in gRPC messages that previously used underscores (
_) have been replaced with hyphens (-). Using underscores is not recommended in setups where SuperLink may be deployed behind load balancers or reverse proxies. -
Filtering out non-Fleet API requests at the
FleetServicer(#4900)The Fleet API endpoint will now reject gRPC requests that are not part of its API.
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Fix exit handlers mechanism for Windows (#4907)
The
SIGQUITPython signal is not supported on Windows. This signal is now excluded when Flower is executed on Windows. -
Updated Examples (#4895, #4158, #4879)
Examples have been updated to the latest version of Flower. Some examples have also had their dependencies upgraded. The Federated Finetuning of a Whisper model example has been updated to use the new Flower execution method:
flwr run. -
Update FlowerTuneLLM Leaderboard evaluation scripts (#4919)
We have updated the package versions used in the evaluation scripts. There is still time to participate in the Flower LLM Leaderboard!