Diffusers 0.41.0 adds a Qwen-Image 2.1 pipeline and deprecates ONNX support

On October 6, 2026 Hugging Face published Diffusers 0.41.0 on GitHub. The release notes say it adds Qwen-Image 2.1, with text-to-image generation, image editing, native transparency, and LoRA training, and introduces tensor-parallel checkpoint loading in which each rank reads its own slice of sharded weights. The notes deprecate ONNX support in favor of Optimum and remove previously deprecated APIs, including the LuminaText2ImgPipeline and Lumina2Text2ImgPipeline aliases. They also say minor releases will now be coordinated around new model integrations, as in Transformers. Qwen-Image 2.1 is a third-party model and is not a catalog entry; the notes do not state its license.1

USASI. (2026, October 8). Diffusers 0.41.0 adds a Qwen-Image 2.1 pipeline and deprecates ONNX support. United States of America Superintelligence. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/diffusers-0-41-0-released/

@misc{usasi_news_diffusers_0_41_0_released,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Diffusers 0.41.0 adds a Qwen-Image 2.1 pipeline and deprecates ONNX support},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/diffusers-0-41-0-released/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-08}
}