# Announcing Flower 1.29.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-29-0/1225>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** flower, release\
**Created:** [April 12, 2026, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-29-0/1225 "2026-04-12T08:54:59Z")\
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As we count down to the [Flower AI Summit 2026](https://flower.ai/events/flower-ai-summit-2026/) (only 3 days away!),  
the Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.29 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`, `Yan Gao`

### What’s new?

- **Introduce runtime dependency installation option for isolated execution** ([#6741](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6741))

- **Improve federation run management and validation** ([#6943](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6943), [#6956](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6956), [#6957](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6957), [#6961](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6961))

- **Introduce SuperExec authentication with HMAC and shared secrets** ([#6948](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6948), [#6949](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6949), [#6950](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6950), [#6951](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6951), [#6952](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6952), [#6977](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6977), [#6978](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6978), [#6979](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6979), [#6980](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6980), [#6981](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6981))

- **Show Flower Hub compatibility note in CLI download and review flows** ([#6989](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6989), [#6992](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6992))

- **Enhance authentication for `flwr-*` processes** ([#6796](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6796))

- **Update examples with FAB metadata and improved documentation** ([#6890](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6890), [#6935](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6935))

- **Display full FAB hash in `flwr list` JSON output** ([#6958](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6958))

- **Update documentation** ([#6959](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6959), [#6964](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6964), [#6966](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6966))

- **Stabilize CI pipelines and improve test reliability** ([#6911](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6911), [#6974](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6974), [#6985](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6985), [#6987](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6987))

- **General improvements** ([#6931](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6931), [#6944](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6944), [#6946](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6946), [#6955](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6955), [#6970](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6970), [#6973](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6973), [#6982](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6982), [#6983](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6983), [#6988](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6988), [#6990](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6990), [#6994](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6994), [#6995](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6995), [#6996](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6996), [#6997](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6997), [#6999](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6999), [#7003](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7003), [#7004](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7004), [#7005](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7005))

### Incompatible changes

- **Remove Flower File Storage (FFS)** ([#6809](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6809), [#6810](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/6810))