* Wed Jun 25 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- openSUSE Leap 16.0 compatibility
* Tue Jun 24 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- Remove openvino-gcc5-compatibility.patch file
* Tue Jun 24 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
Summary of major features and improvements
- More GenAI coverage and framework integrations to minimize code
changes
* New models supported on CPUs & GPUs: Phi-4,
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, SD-XL Inpainting 0.1, Stable
Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, Phi-4-reasoning, Qwen3, and
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct. Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 is also
supported on NPUs.
* Preview: OpenVINO ™ GenAI introduces a text-to-speech
pipeline for the SpeechT5 TTS model, while the new RAG
backend offers developers a simplified API that delivers
reduced memory usage and improved performance.
* Preview: OpenVINO™ GenAI offers a GGUF Reader for seamless
integration of llama.cpp based LLMs, with Python and C++
pipelines that load GGUF models, build OpenVINO graphs,
and run GPU inference on-the-fly. Validated for popular models:
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen (1.5B, 7B), Qwen2.5 Instruct
(1.5B, 3B, 7B) & llama-3.2 Instruct (1B, 3B, 8B).
- Broader LLM model support and more model compression
techniques
* Further optimization of LoRA adapters in OpenVINO GenAI
for improved LLM, VLM, and text-to-image model performance
on built-in GPUs. Developers can use LoRA adapters to
quickly customize models for specialized tasks.
* KV cache compression for CPUs is enabled by default for
INT8, providing a reduced memory footprint while maintaining
accuracy compared to FP16. Additionally, it delivers
substantial memory savings for LLMs with INT4 support compared
to INT8.
* Optimizations for Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor Series 2
built-in GPUs and Intel® Arc™ B Series Graphics with the
Intel® XMX systolic platform to enhance the performance of
VLM models and hybrid quantized image generation models, as
well as improve first-token latency for LLMs through dynamic
quantization.
- More portability and performance to run AI at the edge, in the
cloud, or locally.
* Enhanced Linux* support with the latest GPU driver for
built-in GPUs on Intel® Core™ Ultra Processor Series 2
(formerly codenamed Arrow Lake H).
* Support for INT4 data-free weights compression for ONNX
models implemented in the Neural Network Compression
Framework (NNCF).
* NPU support for FP16-NF4 precision on Intel® Core™ 200V
Series processors for models with up to 8B parameters is
enabled through symmetrical and channel-wise quantization,
improving accuracy while maintaining performance efficiency.
Support Change and Deprecation Notices
- Discontinued in 2025:
* Runtime components:
+ The OpenVINO property of Affinity API is no longer
available. It has been replaced with CPU binding
configurations (ov::hint::enable_cpu_pinning).
+ The openvino-nightly PyPI module has been discontinued.
End-users should proceed with the Simple PyPI nightly repo
instead. More information in Release Policy. The
openvino-nightly PyPI module has been discontinued.
End-users should proceed with the Simple PyPI nightly repo
instead. More information in Release Policy.
* Tools:
+ The OpenVINO™ Development Tools package (pip install
openvino-dev) is no longer available for OpenVINO releases
in 2025.
+ Model Optimizer is no longer available. Consider using the
new conversion methods instead. For more details, see the
model conversion transition guide.
+ Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) are currently
not enabled in the binary package by default. They are
still supported in the source code form.
+ Legacy prefixes: l_, w_, and m_ have been removed from
OpenVINO archive names.
* OpenVINO GenAI:
+ StreamerBase::put(int64_t token)
+ The Bool value for Callback streamer is no longer accepted.
It must now return one of three values of StreamingStatus
enum.
+ ChunkStreamerBase is deprecated. Use StreamerBase instead.
* NNCF create_compressed_model() method is now deprecated.
nncf.quantize() method is recommended for
Quantization-Aware Training of PyTorch and TensorFlow models.
* OpenVINO Model Server (OVMS) benchmark client in C++
using TensorFlow Serving API.
- Deprecated and to be removed in the future:
* Python 3.9 is now deprecated and will be unavailable after
OpenVINO version 2025.4.
* openvino.Type.undefined is now deprecated and will be removed
with version 2026.0. openvino.Type.dynamic should be used
instead.
* APT & YUM Repositories Restructure: Starting with release
2025.1, users can switch to the new repository structure
for APT and YUM, which no longer uses year-based
subdirectories (like “2025”). The old (legacy) structure
will still be available until 2026, when the change will
be finalized. Detailed instructions are available on the
relevant documentation pages:
+ Installation guide - yum
+ Installation guide - apt
* OpenCV binaries will be removed from Docker images in 2026.
* Ubuntu 20.04 support will be deprecated in future OpenVINO
releases due to the end of standard support.
* “auto shape” and “auto batch size” (reshaping a model in
runtime) will be removed in the future. OpenVINO’s dynamic
shape models are recommended instead.
* MacOS x86 is no longer recommended for use due to the
discontinuation of validation. Full support will be removed
later in 2025.
* The openvino namespace of the OpenVINO Python API has been
redesigned, removing the nested openvino.runtime module.
The old namespace is now considered deprecated and will be
discontinued in 2026.0.
* Wed May 21 2025 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
- Fix file list for riscv64
* Mon May 05 2025 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
- Do not force GCC15 on Tumblewed just yet: follow the distro
default compiler, like any other package.
* Sat May 03 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- openvino-gcc5-compatibility.patch to resolve incompatibility
in gcc5
* Thu May 01 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- Added gcc-14
* Mon Apr 14 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- Update to 2025.1.0
- Downgrade from gcc13-c++ to 12 due to incompatibility in tbb
compilation. This was due to C++ libraries (using libstdc++)
resulting in the error: libtbb.so.12: undefined reference to
`__cxa_call_terminate@CXXABI_1.3.15'
- More GenAI coverage and framework integrations to minimize code
changes
* New models supported: Phi-4 Mini, Jina CLIP v1, and Bce
Embedding Base v1.
* OpenVINO™ Model Server now supports VLM models, including
Qwen2-VL, Phi-3.5-Vision, and InternVL2.
* OpenVINO GenAI now includes image-to-image and inpainting
features for transformer-based pipelines, such as Flux.1 and
Stable Diffusion 3 models, enhancing their ability to generate
more realistic content.
* Preview: AI Playground now utilizes the OpenVINO Gen AI backend
to enable highly optimized inferencing performance on AI PCs.
- Broader LLM model support and more model compression techniques
* Reduced binary size through optimization of the CPU plugin and
removal of the GEMM kernel.
* Optimization of new kernels for the GPU plugin significantly
boosts the performance of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models,
used in many applications, including speech recognition,
language modeling, and time series forecasting.
* Preview: Token Eviction implemented in OpenVINO GenAI to reduce
the memory consumption of KV Cache by eliminating unimportant
tokens. This current Token Eviction implementation is
beneficial for tasks where a long sequence is generated, such
as chatbots and code generation.
* NPU acceleration for text generation is now enabled in
OpenVINO™ Runtime and OpenVINO™ Model Server to support the
power-efficient deployment of VLM models on NPUs for AI PC use
cases with low concurrency.
- More portability and performance to run AI at the edge, in the
cloud, or locally.
* Additional LLM performance optimizations on Intel® Core™ Ultra
200H series processors for improved 2nd token latency on
Windows and Linux.
* Enhanced performance and efficient resource utilization with
the implementation of Paged Attention and Continuous Batching
by default in the GPU plugin.
* Preview: The new OpenVINO backend for Executorch will enable
accelerated inference and improved performance on Intel
hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.
* Tue Mar 04 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- Disabled JAX plugin beta.
* Sun Feb 09 2025 Alessandro de Oliveira Faria <cabelo@opensuse.org>
- Update to 2025.0.0
- More GenAI coverage and framework integrations to minimize code
changes
* New models supported: Qwen 2.5, Deepseek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B,
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B, and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B,
FLUX.1 Schnell and FLUX.1 Dev
* Whisper Model: Improved performance on CPUs, built-in GPUs,
and discrete GPUs with GenAI API.
* Preview: Introducing NPU support for torch.compile, giving
developers the ability to use the OpenVINO backend to run the
PyTorch API on NPUs. 300+ deep learning models enabled from
the TorchVision, Timm, and TorchBench repositories..
- Broader Large Language Model (LLM) support and more model
compression techniques.
* Preview: Addition of Prompt Lookup to GenAI API improves 2nd
token latency for LLMs by effectively utilizing predefined
prompts that match the intended use case.
* Preview: The GenAI API now offers image-to-image inpainting
functionality. This feature enables models to generate
realistic content by inpainting specified modifications and
seamlessly integrating them with the original image.
* Asymmetric KV Cache compression is now enabled for INT8 on
CPUs, resulting in lower memory consumption and improved 2nd
token latency, especially when dealing with long prompts that
require significant memory. The option should be explicitly
specified by the user.
- More portability and performance to run AI at the edge, in the
cloud, or locally.
* Support for the latest Intel® Core™ Ultra 200H series
processors (formerly codenamed Arrow Lake-H)
* Integration of the OpenVINO ™ backend with the Triton
Inference Server allows developers to utilize the Triton
server for enhanced model serving performance when deploying
on Intel CPUs.
* Preview: A new OpenVINO ™ backend integration allows
developers to leverage OpenVINO performance optimizations
directly within Keras 3 workflows for faster AI inference on
CPUs, built-in GPUs, discrete GPUs, and NPUs. This feature is
available with the latest Keras 3.8 release.
* The OpenVINO Model Server now supports native Windows Server
deployments, allowing developers to leverage better
performance by eliminating container overhead and simplifying
GPU deployment.
- Support Change and Deprecation Notices
* Now deprecated:
+ Legacy prefixes l_, w_, and m_ have been removed from
OpenVINO archive names.
+ The runtime namespace for Python API has been marked as
deprecated and designated to be removed for 2026.0. The
new namespace structure has been delivered, and migration
is possible immediately. Details will be communicated
through warnings andvia documentation.
+ NNCF create_compressed_model() method is deprecated.
nncf.quantize() method is now recommended for
Quantization-Aware Training of PyTorch and
TensorFlow models.