# Announcing Flower 1.27.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-27-0/1218>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** flower, release\
**Created:** [March 10, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-27-0/1218 "2026-03-10T13:44:04Z")\
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The Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.27 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`, `Heng Pan`, `Javier`, `Micah Sheller`, `Mohammad Naseri`, `Patrick Foley`, `Roma Klapaukh`, `Ruth Galindo`, `Taner Topal`, `Yan Gao`

### What’s new?

- **Introduce local SuperLink for managing local simulations** ([#6599](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6599), [#6717](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6717))

- **Allow SuperLink log rotation** ([#6700](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6700))

- **Update framework documentation** ([#6533](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6533), [#6537](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6537), [#6541](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6541), [#6546](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6546), [#6551](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6551), [#6593](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6593), [#6598](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6598), [#6612](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6612), [#6615](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6615), [#6629](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6629), [#6631](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6631), [#6635](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6635), [#6681](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6681), [#6694](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6694), [#6710](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6710), [#6718](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6718), [#6719](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6719), [#6731](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6731))

- **Adopt release-branch workflow for Flower framework releases** ([#6560](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6560), [#6566](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6566), [#6594](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6594))

- **Introduce versioned Flower documentation built from release branches** ([#6564](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6564), [#6569](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6569), [#6596](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6596), [#6607](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6607), [#6609](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6609), [#6610](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6610))

- **Introduce multi-federation management via `flwr federation` CLI commands** ([#6559](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6559), [#6582](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6582), [#6583](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6583), [#6588](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6588), [#6589](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6589), [#6611](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6611), [#6618](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6618), [#6623](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6623), [#6625](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6625), [#6632](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6632), [#6658](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6658), [#6662](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6662), [#6673](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6673), [#6674](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6674), [#6676](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6676), [#6680](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6680), [#6695](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6695), [#6703](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6703), [#6705](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6705), [#6707](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6707), [#6708](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6708), [#6722](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6722), [#6725](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6725), [#6726](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6726))

- **Add `--limit` option to `flwr list` to limit the number of runs listed** ([#6639](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6639), [#6737](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6737))

- **Add Federated Analytics example** ([#6314](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6314))

- **Improve Flower Hub app publishing and FAB building** ([#6656](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6656), [#6685](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6685), [#6686](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6686), [#6689](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6689), [#6736](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6736))

- **Update examples** ([#6545](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6545), [#6555](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6555), [#6697](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6697), [#6709](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6709))

- **Update packaging and dependency configuration** ([#6548](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6548), [#6558](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6558), [#6648](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6648), [#6651](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6651), [#6654](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6654), [#6683](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6683))

- **Improve CI workflows** ([#6549](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6549), [#6550](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6550), [#6573](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6573), [#6575](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6575), [#6579](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6579), [#6585](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6585), [#6601](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6601), [#6617](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6617), [#6624](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6624), [#6633](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6633), [#6645](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6645), [#6647](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6647), [#6655](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6655), [#6665](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6665), [#6706](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6706))

- **General improvements** ([#6540](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6540), [#6547](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6547), [#6553](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6553), [#6563](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6563), [#6568](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6568), [#6591](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6591), [#6595](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6595), [#6602](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6602), [#6616](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6616), [#6634](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6634), [#6637](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6637), [#6642](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6642), [#6643](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6643), [#6650](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6650), [#6652](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6652), [#6659](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6659), [#6670](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6670), [#6679](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6679), [#6696](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6696), [#6712](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6712), [#6716](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6716), [#6720](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6720), [#6721](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6721), [#6723](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6723), [#6724](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6724), [#6727](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6727), [#6728](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6728), [#6729](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6729), [#6734](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6734), [#6735](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6735))

### Incompatible changes

- **Unpublish `v1.8.0`-`v1.16.0` framework documentation** ([#6621](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6621))

- **Drop deprecated `--flwr-dir` CLI option** ([#6677](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6677))

- **Remove `flower-simulation` CLI entrypoint** ([#6628](https://github.com/adap/flower/pull/6628))