Community Updates
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PyTorch moves from 1.5 to 1.8 while community contributions grow: ~6,000 issues discussed, 360+ merged PRs, and ~1,800 contributors (≈50% year over year). Forum adds 14,000 members to reach 40,000 with 58,000 posts and average first-response time dropping from 25 days to about 3 (an 88% improvement); community champions post ~15,000 times. GitHub shows ~67,000 repositories and 2,700 packages using PyTorch; ecosystem adds 27 projects including l5kit and Hugging Face transformers, plus Hummingbird, DeepSpeed and TorchDrift.
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