MAX Nightly 26.2.0.dev2026020616 Released

:astronaut: A new nightly version has been released! :astronaut:

See the quickstart guide for installation instructions: Quickstart | Modular

MAX changelog updates:

  • Remove legacy Gemma 3 multimodal implementation and the
    MODULAR_MAX_DISABLE_GEMMA3_VISION environment variable.
  • Keep a global MLIR context active and drop per-graph context plumbing so
    algebraic dims and graph/custom op construction work without an explicit
    context manager. Worker threads must still enter active_mlir_context() to
    satisfy thread-local context/GIL constraints.

Mojo changelog updates:

Raw MAX diff: https://github.com/modular/modular/compare/e85ea54b8b84b19d49a25b748fb50c5a37c98eac...49b12c5f5c872c1ab186b1b316748c4fd0c0cd70)>
Current Mojo changelog: https://github.com/modular/modular/blob/main/mojo/docs/changelog.md