# Announcing Flower 1.24.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** flower, release\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-24-0/1141 "2025-12-01T10:06:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 1, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-24-0/1141/1 "2025-12-01T10:06:46Z")
![2025-12-01-announcing-flower-1.24-release](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/flower/original/1X/a569abcaa03c22762908c8564ed8dc9c500cd949.jpeg) The Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.24 stable, packed with new 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): `Charles Beauville`, `Chong Shen Ng`, `Daniel J. Beutel`, `Daniel Nata Nugraha`, `Heng Pan`, `Javier`, `Patrick Foley`, `Robert Steiner`, `Yan Gao` ### Whatโ€™s new? - **Add Python 3.13 support** ([#6116](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6116), [#6119](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6119), [#6132](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6132)) - **Improve the `flwr list` view** ([#6117](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6117)) - **Extend federation commands and internal APIs** ([#6067](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6067), [#6068](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6068), [#6078](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6078), [#6082](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6082), [#6086](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6086), [#6087](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6087), [#6088](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6088), [#6090](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6090), [#6091](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6091), [#6092](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6092), [#6093](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6093), [#6094](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6094), [#6098](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6098), [#6103](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6103), [#6105](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6105), [#6121](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6121), [#6122](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6122), [#6143](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6143), [#6152](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6152), [#6153](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6153), [#6154](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6154), [#6158](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6158), [#6165](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6165), [#6167](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6167)) - **Introduce unified app heartbeat mechanism** ([#6204](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6204), [#6206](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6206), [#6209](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6209), [#6210](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6210), [#6212](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6212), [#6213](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6213), [#6214](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6214), [#6215](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6215), [#6218](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6218), [#6219](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6219), [#6221](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6221), [#6224](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6224), [#6225](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6225), [#6226](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6226), [#6227](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6227)) - **Fix bugs** ([#6188](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6188), [#6171](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6171), [#6175](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6175), [#6207](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6207)) - **Improve import performance** ([#6102](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6102)) - **Improve internal SQLite database performance** ([#6178](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6178), [#6195](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6195)) - **Update CI workflows and development tooling** ([#5242](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/5242), [#6053](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6053), [#6080](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6080), [#6089](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6089), [#6108](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6108), [#6129](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6129), [#6130](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6130), [#6131](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6131), [#6135](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6135), [#6138](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6138), [#6142](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6142), [#6144](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6144), [#6156](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6156), [#6181](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6181), [#6187](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6187), [#6189](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6189)) - **Update documentation** ([#6115](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6115), [#6081](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6081), [#6110](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6110), [#6137](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6137), [#6146](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6146), [#6169](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6169), [#6179](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6179), [#6228](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6228)) - **General improvements** ([#6077](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6077), [#6083](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6083), [#6084](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6084), [#6095](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6095), [#6097](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6097), [#6100](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6100), [#6101](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6101), [#6109](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6109), [#6114](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6114), [#6123](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6123), [#6127](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6127), [#6139](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6139), [#6140](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6140), [#6150](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6150), [#6151](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6151), [#6157](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6157), [#6159](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6159), [#6160](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6160), [#6162](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6162), [#6164](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6164), [#6172](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6172), [#6173](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6173), [#6174](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6174), [#6180](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6180), [#6190](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6190), [#6191](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6191), [#6192](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6192), [#6193](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6193), [#6196](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6196), [#6197](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6197), [#6198](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6198), [#6199](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6199), [#6200](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6200), [#6202](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6202), [#6203](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6203), [#6205](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6205), [#6208](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6208), [#6211](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6211), [#6222](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6222), [#6223](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6223)) ### Incompatible changes - **Drop Python 3.9 support** ([#6118](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6118), [#6136](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6136), [#6147](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6147)) - **Bump protobuf to 5.x** ([#6104](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6104)) - **Deprecate `flwr.server.utils.tensorboard`** ([#6113](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6113)) ---
**Author:** ![williamlm](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/williamlm/32/162_2.png) [@williamlm](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/williamlm)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-24-0/1141/2 "2025-12-01T12:18:04Z")
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