# Announcing Flower Datasets 0.5.0!

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-datasets-0-5-0/491>\
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**Created:** [December 20, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/announcing-flower-datasets-0-5-0/491 "2024-12-20T16:27:57Z")\
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The Flower Team is excited to announce the release of Flower Datasets 0.5.0!

Flower Datasets (`flwr-datasets`) is a library designed to quickly and easily  
create datasets for federated learning, federated evaluation, and federated  
analytics. It was developed by Flower Labs, the creators of Flower: A Friendly  
Federated Learning Framework, to make working with federated data easier.

### What’s new?

- **New Partitioning Schemes** :

- **Docs Improvements**

- **General Improvements**