BentoML OSS Status

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Hello,

For the past few months I’ve been regularly checking on the state of the BentoML OSS project, but can’t seem to find anything fresh on the matter.

The main repository hasn’t seen a release since early May, I know a few commits went through the past few days, but apart from that everything has been stagnant for months now.

Is something planned for BentoML OSS? Or should we consider it to be on its last leg?
Is there another communication channel than this place? These forums look nice but, coming from the fairly active BentoML Slack workspace ; in comparison this has a grand total of 10 messages since the beginning of the year, including this one.

So any insight on this would be nice! Because at this stage we’re pondering our options for a migration away from BentoML for our tech stack.

Thanks in advance for your help !

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Hi Pierre, thank you for raising this!

You’re right that we’ve been slow on releases, and Issues/PRs on GitHub haven’t gotten the attention they should have over the past few months. That’s on us. BentoML the company went through a merger and a lot of team transition this year, and OSS responsiveness took the hit. We’re working through the backlog now, and that’s not the standard we intend to hold going forward.

To answer your main question: BentoML OSS is not on its last leg. Here’s where our effort is actually going:

  1. Agentic coding support. We’re prioritizing making BentoML work well with coding agents - both so your agents can build and deploy services on the framework, and so contributors can land features and bug fixes more easily. The work is still in progress, but you can see where it’s heading from some early work here: Agent skills - BentoML

  2. A lightweight open-source alternative to BentoCloud. Separately, we’re phasing out BentoCloud and building a light-weight OSS deployment tool. Agent skills will play a big role there too.

On the community side: this forum will be the main (and only) place we recommend going forward. We know a lot of the community members missed the move from Slack, and your post is a good reminder that we need to make that transition more visible. If you’re seeing gaps, have feature requests, or want to contribute, this is the place and we’d love to see more of it!

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