# Announcing Flower 1.38.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-38-0/1274>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** flower, release\
**Created:** [September 22, 2026, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-1-38-0/1274 "2026-09-22T18:56:39Z")\
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The Flower team is excited to announce the release of Flower 1.38 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`, `Dimitris Stripelis`, `Heng Pan`, `Javier`, `Lorenzo Sani`, `Mohammad Naseri`, `Ruth Galindo`, `Taner Topal`, `Yan Gao`

### What’s new?

- **Run AgentApps across a federation (experimental)** ([#8143](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8143), [#8150](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8150), [#8166](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8166), [#8170](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8170), [#8175](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8175), [#8181](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8181), [#8183](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8183), [#8185](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8185), [#8192](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8192), [#8193](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8193), [#8197](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8197), [#8200](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8200), [#8204](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8204), [#8205](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8205), [#8209](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8209), [#8211](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8211), [#8214](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8214), [#8216](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8216), [#8219](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8219))

- **Use Endeavor with ChatGPT/Codex and OpenCode** ([#8117](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8117), [#8199](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8199), [#8202](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8202), [#8222](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8222))

- **Use native connector actions and access local files** ([#8164](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8164), [#8177](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8177), [#8178](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8178), [#8182](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8182), [#8191](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8191), [#8203](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8203))

- **Set SuperNodes name and location** ([#8213](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8213), [#8215](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8215), [#8217](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8217), [#8218](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8218))

- **Drop `--plugin-type` from `SuperExec`** ([#8151](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8151), [#8152](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8152), [#8153](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8153), [#8157](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8157))

- **Prepare `flwr-model` for faster AgentApp responses** ([#8187](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8187), [#8188](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8188), [#8189](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8189))

- **General improvements** ([#8130](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8130), [#8145](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8145), [#8146](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8146), [#8156](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8156), [#8160](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8160), [#8161](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8161), [#8163](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8163), [#8165](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8165), [#8169](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8169), [#8171](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8171), [#8172](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8172), [#8174](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8174), [#8179](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8179), [#8195](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8195), [#8196](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8196), [#8198](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8198), [#8220](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8220), [#8223](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8223), [#8224](https://github.com/flwrlabs/flower/pull/8224))