Welcome, Gradio 5

We’ve been hard at work over the past few months, and we are excited to now announce the stable release of Gradio 5.

With Gradio 5, developers can build production-ready machine learning web applications that are performant, scalable, beautifully designed, accessible, and follow best web security practices, all in a few lines of Python.

To give Gradio 5 a spin, simply type in your terminal:

pip install --upgrade gradio

and start building your first Gradio application.

Gradio 5: production-ready machine learning apps

If you have used Gradio before, you might be wondering what’s different about Gradio 5.

Our goal with Gradio 5 was to listen to and address the most common pain points that we’ve heard from Gradio developers about building production-ready Gradio apps. For example, we’ve heard some developers tell us:

• “Gradio apps load too slowly” → Gradio 5 ships with major performance improvements, including the ability to serve Gradio apps via server-side rendering (SSR) which loads Gradio apps almost instantaneously in the browser. No more loading spinner! 🏎️💨

Gradio 5 provides all these features while maintaining Gradio’s simple and intuitive developer-facing API. Since Gradio 5 intended to be a production-ready web framework for all kinds of machine learning applications, we've also made significant improvements around web security (including getting a 3rd-party audit of Gradio) -- more about that in an upcoming post!

Breaking changes

Gradio apps that did not raise any deprecation warnings in Gradio 4.x should continue to work in Gradio 5, with a small number of exceptions. See a list of breaking changes in Gradio 5 here. 

What’s next for Gradio?

Many of the changes we’ve made in Gradio 5 are designed to enable new functionality that we will be shipping in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for:

And much more! With Gradio 5 providing a robust foundation to build web applications, we’re excited to really get started letting developers build all sorts of ML apps with Gradio.