# Announcing Flower 1.26.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-26-1/1206>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** flower, release\
**Created:** [February 9, 2026, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-26-1/1206 "2026-02-09T11:46:17Z")\
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The Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.26.1 stable!

**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`, `Taner Topal`

### What’s new?

- **Fix client resource handling in local simulations** ([#6536](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6536))

- **Update framework documentation** ([#6528](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6528), [#6530](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6530))

- **General improvements** ([#6526](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6526), [#6493](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6493), [#6534](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6534), [#6531](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6531), [#6523](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6523), [#6529](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6529), [#6501](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6501))