# Announcing Flower 1.11.1

**URL:** https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-11-1/324
**Category:** General
**Tags:** release, flower
**Created:** [September 12, 2024, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-11-1/324 "2024-09-12T08:28:19Z")
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### Author: ![charles](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/charles/32/92_2.png) [@charles](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/charles)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2024, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-11-1/324/1 "2024-09-12T08:28:19Z")

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The Flower Team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.11.1 stable, a patch release with a number of smaller improvements. **Flower is a friendly framework for collaborative AI and data science.** It makes novel approaches such as federated learning, federated evaluation, federated analytics, and fleet learning accessible to a wide audience of researchers and engineers.

### 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):

Charles Beauville, Chong Shen Ng, Daniel J. Beutel, Heng Pan, Javier, Robert Steiner, Yan Gao

### Improvements

- **Implement** keys/values/items **methods for** TypedDict ([#4146](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4146))
- **Fix parsing of** --executor-config **if present** ([#4125](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4125))
- **Adjust framework name in templates docstrings** ([#4127](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4127))
- **Update** flwr new **Hugging Face template** ([#4169](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4169))
- **Fix** flwr new **FlowerTune template** ([#4123](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4123))
- **Add buffer time after** ServerApp **thread initialization** ([#4119](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4119))
- **Handle unsuitable resources for simulation** ([#4143](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4143))
- **Update example READMEs** ([#4117](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4117))
- **Update SuperNode authentication docs** ([#4160](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4160))

### Incompatible changes

None