# Announcing Flower 1.35.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-35-0/1270>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** flower, release\
**Created:** [August 25, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-35-0/1270 "2026-08-25T14:52:27Z")\
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The Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.35 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`, `Daniel J. Beutel`, `Daniel Nata Nugraha`, `Dimitris Stripelis`, `Heng Pan`, `Javier`, `Mohammad Naseri`, `Stephane Moroso`, `Taner Topal`

### What’s new?

- **Run the Runtime API over HTTP** ([#7907](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7907), [#7913](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7913), [#7923](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7923), [#7924](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7924), [#7954](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7954), [#7956](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7956), [#7959](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7959), [#7960](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7960), [#7963](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7963))

- **Use Open Responses from AgentApps (experimental)** ([#7971](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7971), [#7976](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7976), [#7977](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7977), [#7979](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7979), [#7983](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7983), [#7985](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7985))

- **Continue conversations across federations in `flwr chat` (experimental)** ([#7836](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7836), [#7933](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7933), [#7964](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7964), [#7965](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7965), [#7972](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7972), [#7992](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7992))

- **Manage Flower Apps in federations (experimental)** ([#7932](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7932), [#7948](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7948), [#7951](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7951), [#7962](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7962), [#7987](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7987))

- **Create your first AgentApp with one command (experimental)** ([#7947](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7947))

- **Learn how to build, connect, and automate AgentApps (experimental)** ([#7903](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7903), [#7906](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7906), [#7925](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7925), [#7927](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7927))

- **Track privacy loss in fixed-clipping strategies (research preview)** ([#7934](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7934), [#7958](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7958))

- **Catch invalid Flower Apps when building FABs** ([#7950](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7950), [#7969](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7969))

- **Improve Framework release reliability** ([#7935](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7935), [#7940](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7940), [#7952](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7952))

- **General improvements** ([#7882](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7882), [#7890](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7890), [#7937](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7937), [#7938](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7938), [#7939](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7939), [#7942](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7942), [#7943](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7943), [#7949](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7949), [#7957](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7957), [#7961](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7961), [#7968](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7968), [#7970](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7970), [#7981](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7981), [#7982](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7982), [#7989](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7989), [#7995](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7995))

### Incompatible changes

- **Update Runtime API addresses and CLI options** ([#7936](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7936), [#7955](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/7955))