[Skip to main content](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#__docusaurus_skipToContent_fallback)
GPU Shortage?Make the most out of your GPUs with Compute Orchestration. [Learn More](/content/ebook-clarifai-executive-guide-2025/index.html)
On this page
**Release Date:** March 5th, 2026
* * *
| New Feature | Improvement | Bug Fix | Enterprise Only |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | |
## Clarifai CLI [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#clarifai-cli "Direct link to Clarifai CLI")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Streamlined model-to-production workflow | - Introduced a streamlined 3-command workflow (`model init` → `model serve` → `model deploy`) to take models from scaffold to production in minutes. Learn how to get started quickly [here](https://docs.clarifai.com/getting-started/upload-model).
- Unified deployment into a single `model deploy` command with automatic infrastructure provisioning.
- Added structured deployment phases with progress indicators and next steps. |
| | Deployment lifecycle management | - Added `model status`, `model logs`, and `model undeploy` commands.
- Introduced direct `deployment` commands for managing deployments by ID.
- Maintained backward compatibility with legacy flags and configs. |
| | Intelligent infrastructure & instance handling | - Added GPU auto-selection based on model VRAM and toolkit requirements.
- Enabled multi-cloud instance discovery with GPU shorthands and legacy normalization.
- Added custom Docker base image support for faster toolkit builds. |
| | Enhanced local development & runners | - Enhanced `model serve` with env, Docker, and standalone gRPC modes.
- Added concurrency controls and optional Docker image retention.
- Added health-check configuration for the `clarifai model local-runner` via `--health-check-port`, `--disable-health-check`, and `--auto-find-health-check-port` flags. |
| | Authentication & context Management | - Improved authentication with interactive/non-interactive [`login`](https://docs.clarifai.com/resources/api-overview/cli#clarifai-login) and flexible [`logout`](https://docs.clarifai.com/resources/api-overview/cli#clarifai-logout) options.
- Added named CLI contexts with `--context` overrides.
- Expanded `whoami` with profile inspection, org listing, and JSON output. |
| | Model & app management enhancements | - Enhanced `model predict` with streaming auto-detection, method inference, JSON output, and deployment routing.
- Implemented early HuggingFace gated-model validation with actionable errors.
- Added full CRUD support for apps with convenient command aliases. |
| | Configuration & performance improvements | - Simplified `config.yaml` with automatic normalization and smart defaults.
- Improved CLI startup performance through lazy module loading.
- Improved output formatting with clickable URLs, structured sections, and command hints. |
## Pipelines [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#pipelines "Direct link to Pipelines")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Public Preview](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release-types#release-types) | Introduced Training on Pipelines to align training workflows with production-grade deployment and scalable infrastructure | - Introduced support for initializing pipelines using templates — including training templates — directly via the CLI.
- Launched a new UI experience for training models seamlessly within pipelines.
_**Note:** Training on Pipelines enables training of models fully compatible with the Clarifai Compute Orchestration platform. It also allows training to leverage dedicated provisioned compute resources._ |
| | Made improvements to pipeline steps | - Enhanced the `pipeline step init` command to include a `visibility` field.
- Users can now set pipeline steps to be publicly visible during initialization through both the CLI and builder APIs. By default, pipelines and pipeline step templates are created with `PRIVATE` visibility. |
## Artifacts [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#artifacts "Direct link to Artifacts")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Made improvements to provide users with full control over artifact lifecycle management | - Artifacts no longer expire automatically by default.
- Artifacts are only deleted if an `expires_at` value is explicitly set at upload time.
- The CLI now displays the `latest-version-id` alongside artifact visibility for easier version management and referencing. |
## Playground [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#playground "Direct link to Playground")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Made Playground improvements | - Enhanced the Playground with major upgrades to the Universal Search experience, including multi-panel (compare mode) support, improved workspace handling, and smarter model auto-selection.
- Model selections are now panel-aware to prevent cross-panel conflicts, workspace context is more robust and explicit, and the UI can optionally display simplified model names for a cleaner experience. |
## Deployments [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#deployments "Direct link to Deployments")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Made various improvements to deployments | - Dynamic nodepool routing now allows multiple nodepools to be attached to a single deployment, with configurable scheduling strategies.
- Deployment visibility has been improved with the introduction of status chips and enhanced list views across Deployments, Nodepools, and Clusters.
- DigitalOcean and Azure have been added as supported cloud instance providers.
- Support has been added for explicitly starting and stopping deployments, enabling users to preserve configurations without deleting and recreating deployments.
- A redesigned Deployment details page has been introduced, with expanded status visibility across tables and the Playground. |
## Platform [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#platform "Direct link to Platform")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Made various improvements to the platform | - A new Model Library UI has been launched to provide a more streamlined experience for browsing and exploring models.
- Several platform UX enhancements were introduced, including adding Universal Search to the navbar and refreshing user listing pages.
- Introduced a new account experience.
- Rolled out a new Home 3.0 interface. |
## Modules [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#modules "Direct link to Modules")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Deprecation** | Removed modules | - Modules previously extended Clarifai’s UIs and enabled customized backend processing.
- Support for Modules has now been fully dropped, and all associated module components have been removed from the platform. |
## Models [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#models "Direct link to Models")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Introduced new features and enhancements to improve model management | - Added OpenAI handler support for fetching featured models directly by model ID.
- Introduced stream cancellation support.
- Added model admission control hooks.
- Enabled graceful rollovers between model versions during deployment.
- Fixed an issue where `PatchNodepools` overwrote the maximum instance count.
- Fixed an issue where deployments reused outdated compute information.
- Updated the API to report live deployment replica counts and nodepool node counts.
- Improved error responses for clearer diagnostics.
- Delivered general performance improvements. |
## Python SDK [](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/\#python-sdk "Direct link to Python SDK")
| Status | Change | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | Improved the Python SDK
Learn more [here](https://github.com/Clarifai/clarifai-python/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) | - Prevented environment variable clobbering in tests by using `@patch.dict` and correcting patch paths after the lazy-loading refactor.
- Fixed the ModelRunner health server starting twice, which could cause “Address already in use” errors; added support to disable the health server and automatically select an available port.
- Reduced overhead in the ModelRunner admission-control polling loop to improve runner efficiency.
- Fixed a serializer regression affecting runner serialization utilities.
- Added admission-control support for model runners.
- Added `openai` as a core dependency.
- Removed the `inference_compute_info` requirement for local model runners.
- Relaxed the `clarifai-protocol` version constraint from `==0.0.35` to `>=0.0.35,<0.1.0`.
- Resolved dependency version-constraint issues.
- Fixed authentication issues in the model deployment CLI.
- Added support for passing `num_threads` from `config.yaml` into the model version protobuf.
- Switched Dockerfile templates to use `tini` as the default entrypoint to improve signal handling and zombie process reaping in runner containers.
- Refactored the Stdio Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to improve logging clarity and remove unused legacy code. |
- [Clarifai CLI](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#clarifai-cli)
- [Pipelines](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#pipelines)
- [Artifacts](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#artifacts)
- [Playground](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#playground)
- [Deployments](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#deployments)
- [Platform](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#platform)
- [Modules](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#modules)
- [Models](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#models)
- [Python SDK](https://docs.clarifai.com/product-updates/changelog/release122/#python-sdk)