# Announcing Flower 1.12

**URL:** https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-12/343
**Category:** General
**Tags:** release, flower
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-12/343 "2024-10-14T07:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![pan-h](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/pan-h/32/67_2.png) [@pan-h](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/pan-h)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-12/343/1 "2024-10-14T07:33:24Z")

</div>

The Flower Team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.12 stable and it’s packed with updates!  
**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):

`Adam Narozniak`, `Audris`, `Charles Beauville`, `Chong Shen Ng`, `Daniel J. Beutel`, `Daniel Nata Nugraha`, `Heng Pan`, `Javier`, `Jiahao Tan`, `Julian Rußmeyer`, `Mohammad Naseri`, `Ray Sun`, `Robert Steiner`, `Yan Gao`, `xiliguguagua`

### What’s new?

- **Introduce SuperExec log streaming** ([#3577](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3577), [#3584](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3584), [#4242](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4242), [#3611](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3611), [#3613](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3613))

- **Improve `flwr new` templates** ([#4291](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4291), [#4292](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4292), [#4293](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4293), [#4294](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4294), [#4295](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4295))

- **Migrate ID handling to use unsigned 64-bit integers** ([#4170](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4170), [#4237](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4237), [#4243](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4243))

- **Add Flower architecture explanation** ([#3270](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3270))

- **Introduce FedRep baseline** ([#3790](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3790))

- **Improve FlowerTune template and LLM evaluation pipelines** ([#4286](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4286), [#3769](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3769), [#4272](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4272), [#4257](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4257), [#4220](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4220), [#4282](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4282), [#4171](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4171), [#4228](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4228), [#4258](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4258), [#4296](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4296), [#4287](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4287), [#4217](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4217), [#4249](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4249), [#4324](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4324), [#4219](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4219), [#4327](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4327))

- **Enhance Docker Support and Documentation** ([#4191](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4191), [#4251](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4251), [#4190](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4190), [#3928](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3928), [#4298](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4298), [#4192](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4192), [#4136](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4136), [#4187](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4187), [#4261](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4261), [#4177](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4177), [#4176](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4176), [#4189](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4189), [#4297](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4297), [#4226](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4226))

- **Introduce Flower glossary** ([#4165](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4165), [#4235](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4235))

- **Implement Message Time-to-Live (TTL)** ([#3620](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3620), [#3596](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3596), [#3615](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3615), [#3609](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3609), [#3635](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3635))

- **Improve FAB handling** ([#4303](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4303), [#4264](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4264), [#4305](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4305), [#4304](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4304))

- **Update documentation** ([#3341](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3341), [#3338](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3338), [#3927](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3927), [#4152](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4152), [#4151](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4151), [#3993](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3993))

- **Update example projects** ([#3716](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3716), [#4007](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4007), [#4130](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4130), [#4234](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4234), [#4206](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4206), [#4188](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4188), [#4247](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4247), [#4331](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4331))

- **Update translations** ([#4070](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4070), [#4316](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4316), [#4252](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4252), [#4256](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4256), [#4210](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4210), [#4263](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4263), [#4259](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4259))

- **General improvements** ([#4239](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4239), [4276](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4276), [4204](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4204), [4184](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4184), [4227](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4227), [4183](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4183), [4202](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4202), [4250](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4250), [4267](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4267), [4246](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4246), [4240](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4240), [4265](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4265), [4238](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4238), [4275](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4275), [4318](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4318), [#4178](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4178), [#4315](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4315), [#4241](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4241), [#4289](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4289), [#4290](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4290), [#4181](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4181), [#4208](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4208), [#4225](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4225), [#4314](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4314), [#4174](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4174), [#4203](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4203), [#4274](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4274), [#3154](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3154), [#4201](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4201), [#4268](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4268), [#4254](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4254), [#3990](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3990), [#4212](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4212), [#2938](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/2938), [#4205](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4205), [#4222](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4222), [#4313](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4313), [#3936](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/3936), [#4278](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4278), [#4319](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4319), [#4332](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4332), [#4333](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4333))

### Incompatible changes

- **Drop Python 3.8 support and update minimum version to 3.9** ([#4180](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4180), [#4213](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4213), [#4193](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4193), [#4199](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4199), [#4196](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4196), [#4195](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4195), [#4198](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4198), [#4194](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/4194))