[JulienDarve]

Summary

Upgrade the CUDA runtime to vLLM 0.32.0 and vLLM-Omni 0.32.0rc1, and update the ai-dynamo[vllm] extra to core 0.32.0.

Image	Core vLLM	vLLM-Omni
CUDA	0.32.0	0.32.0rc1
CPU	0.31.0, retained from main	0.31.0rc1, retained from main
XPU	0.31.0, retained from main	0.31.0rc1, retained from main

Upstream vllm-omni#9066, aligning Omni with core 0.32.0, merged on October 19, 2026. The GitHub prerelease was published that day; the non-yanked PyPI wheel followed on October 21 at 7:19 PM PDT (October 22 at 02:19 UTC). Dynamo's package-based installer successfully installed that wheel with core 0.32.0. Package publication and the previous Transformers dependency conflict are resolved.

Details

• Keep the Transformers 5.19.0 and tokenizers 0.23.3 that vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0 ships on CUDA; Omni 0.32.0rc1 accepts them. Only the CPU and XPU images, still on Omni 0.31.0rc1, pin Transformers 5.14.1 and tokenizers 0.22.2. Regenerate the version tables.
• Route the frontend's relocated chat-helper imports through its existing compatibility module; the realtime worker imports the helper from vLLM directly.
• Pass supervisor-bound socket descriptors into embedding child processes and adopt them in the engine client. Normalize the retained address-only transport at the compatibility boundary and keep the focused process/socket handoff regression test. Remove the pre-0.28 engine-launch tuple path, which no supported image produces.
• Match vLLM 0.32's output budget: the worker computes max_tokens with vLLM's own get_max_tokens on every image and, as vLLM does, rejects max_tokens above max_model_len. The frontend metadata keeps the 0.31 rejection policy on the CPU and XPU images.
• The CUDA image now inherits NIXL 1.5.0 (previously 1.4.1) from vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0; the ai-dynamo[vllm] extra and the compatibility tables say 1.5.0 to match.
• Pin pydantic 2.13.5 and pydantic-core 2.46.5 in the CUDA runtime image. The vLLM 0.32 base bundles 2.14.1, above the range ai-dynamo-runtime declares and the test image runs.
• Disable duplicate device normalization in the encoder-only vision model; Dynamo already normalizes its input pixels.
• Merge main at 701ec657c0, preserving its other backend updates, and regenerate the release tables from the merged releases.data.ts.

Where should the reviewer start?

• container/context.yaml: upgraded and retained dependency pins.
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py: socket ownership and process cleanup.

Validation

• Passed: the repository's Omni installer on vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0 installed Omni 0.32.0rc1 and left vLLM 0.32.0, Transformers 5.19.0, and tokenizers 0.23.3 unchanged.
• Passed: Dockerfile rendering. CUDA runtime, dev, local-dev, and EFA outputs drop only the Transformers pin arguments, install step, and version check. CPU and XPU outputs differ only by a filter that keeps the CUDA-only pydantic pin out of those images. PR CI does not build the CPU or XPU images.
• Passed: the pydantic pin applied to vllm/vllm-openai:v0.32.0 installs 2.13.5 and pydantic-core 2.46.5, and vLLM's OpenAI protocol, serve utilities, and renderer parameters import with them. CI's test image already runs vLLM 0.32 with pydantic 2.13.5.
• Passed locally on the merged tree with vLLM 0.32.0, Omni 0.32.0rc1, and Dynamo bindings built from this branch: embedding worker module (14 cases, including the real subprocess/socket handoff), LoRA lifecycle (22), runtime metadata (19, including the max_tokens cap and the rejection above max_model_len), renderer API contract (16), realtime handlers (76), Omni handler (140), Omni output formatter (140), and the vLLM frontend processor (306); after restoring test_vllm_unit.py from main, all 196 of its cases pass on vLLM 0.32. mypy 1.18.2 passes on the changed realtime and embedding modules. No local serving result is claimed.
• Passed: applicable pre-commit checks on the changed files, including the marker check under Python 3.12; gen_llms_tables.py --check after regenerating the release tables; docs lint and Fern configuration and link checks from the preceding bump validation.
• Trusted CI for 0c694415b6 passed. Trusted CI for the current head 35935dc904 is pending; the copied CI branch is verified at that commit.
• Passed: external wheel dependency resolution of the vllm extra (vLLM 0.32.0, NIXL 1.5.0), excluding the pre-existing unpublished ai-dynamo-runtime==1.6.0 dependency; this does not establish a complete wheel install.
• Verified: all five uncompressed CUDA base layers match the existing baseline on amd64 and arm64; fresh baseline scans match all 117 recorded packages. Full upstream-image compliance scanning and generated manifest refresh remain incomplete. The report-only CI audit selected the prior inventory CSV, so its warning count does not establish current-image compliance.
• Omni image-generation serving remains unvalidated: its existing CI case is skipped because the model exceeds the runner's GPU capacity.

Related Issues

Closes DYN-5005

Linear: https://linear.app/nvidia/issue/DYN-5005/bump-dynamo-to-vllm-v0320-and-compatible-vllm-omni

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Embedding workers now support additional vLLM socket transport options, improving compatibility across supported vLLM versions.
• Updates
  • Updated the vLLM version to 0.32.0.
  • Updated the CUDA 13.0 runtime and its associated Transformers and tokenizers versions.
• Documentation
  • Updated compatibility and release references to reflect vLLM 0.32.0.

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Walkthrough

The changes update vLLM references to 0.32, route frontend chat utility imports through a compatibility module, and add inherited ZeroMQ listener support to embedding workers. The release page also changes one contributor entry from a profile link to plain text.

Changes

vLLM Compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
vLLM version and build configuration container/context.yaml, container/templates/args.Dockerfile, pyproject.toml, docs/fern/components/releases.data.ts, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/compatibility.mdx, docs/fern/pages/reference/general/releases-machine-readable.mdx	The vLLM pin changes to 0.32.0 in build configuration, package metadata, and release references. The CUDA 13.0 configuration adds Transformers and tokenizers pins, and Docker arguments prefer device-specific versions when configured.
Frontend helper compatibility imports components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py, components/src/dynamo/frontend/prepost.py, components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py	The protocol module imports and exports load_chat_template and make_tool_call_id from the renderer utilities when available, with a fallback to the entrypoint utilities. Frontend consumers import these helpers from the protocol module.
Embedding worker listener transport components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py, components/src/dynamo/vllm/tests/test_embedding_worker_processes.py	Embedding workers select an available transport helper and support both address results and pre-bound listener sockets. Child processes receive listener file descriptors, and client attachment and cleanup handle the sockets. The integration test checks message exchange through inherited listeners.

Release Page Contributor Entry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contributor entry text docs/fern/pages/reference/general/releases/dynamo-v1-5-0.mdx	The Intel contributor entry displays the name as plain text instead of linking it to a profile.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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Add a whole-test timeout to keep the new listener test bounded. The change is otherwise mergeable subject to the pending current-head build, runtime, and compliance checks.

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Title check		The title clearly summarizes the primary changes: upgrading vLLM core to 0.32.0 and vLLM-Omni to 0.32.0rc1.
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• components/src/dynamo/frontend/prepost.py
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• components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_protocol.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/embedding_worker_processes.py
• components/src/dynamo/vllm/realtime/factories.py
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[jthomson04]

Nothing blocking. The listener handoff matches vLLM 0.32's own RustFrontendProcessManager (supervisor binds, pass_fds, parent closes its copy after Popen, make_zmq_socket adopts via detach()), and the 5.19.0 / 0.23.2 pins sit inside vLLM 0.32's ranges. A few simplifications inline.

Optional: once new-head CI runs, set the 180 s timeout on test_embedding_child_adopts_supervisor_bound_listeners from the measured runtime.

[jthomson04]

All six earlier points are addressed. Having the realtime worker import from vLLM directly is cleaner than the shared-module follow-up. Checked against v0.32.0: the worker's get_max_tokens call matches vLLM's own serving paths, mm_device_do_normalize exists on both 0.31 and 0.32 (0.32's Qwen-VL .visual now normalizes internally), and the Omni 0.32.0rc1 output fields match the renderer test. Two optional nits inline.

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

No P0 or P1 found. This review read head b7da936a80d913aadcb74c39a84a952202ce3be9. A merge of that head with main at 6278e410d2 has no conflicts. The GPU runs used the CI images of 0c694415b6, and b7da936a80 changes only test_embedding_worker_processes.py.

Findings (each one is inline):

• [P2] components/src/dynamo/vllm/handlers.py:954: on vLLM 0.32, Dynamo accepts and caps a max_tokens above max_model_len, but vLLM 0.32.0 rejects it with 400.
• [P3] docs/fern/components/releases.data.ts:82: the main rows list NIXL 1.4.1 for vLLM, but the CUDA image now ships 1.5.0. Please also name the NIXL 1.5.0 change in the description.
• [P3] container/context.yaml:97: the runtime image ships pydantic 2.14.1, above the <=2.13.5 that ai-dynamo-runtime declares, and the pytest lanes run 2.13.5.

Open items:

• Two threads from other reviewers are open: handlers.py:955 and embedding_worker_processes.py:36. For handlers.py:955, this review measured that the worker's own imports already load fastapi, starlette and vllm.entrypoints.serve.utils.api_utils. So the first request pays 0.0 ms for that import, and has_vllm_output_clamping() takes about 135 ns per call.
• CI: the PR run 40008665133 on this head was still queued at 19:24Z. Run 39997786673 on 0c694415b6 passed 60 jobs, and its 20 skipped jobs cover other backends and tools. The vLLM disaggregated deploy tests skipped their test ("CI cluster lacks RDMA/UCX for inter-pod KV transfer"). The 2-GPU job ran test_serve_deployment[disaggregated-3], and it passed. PR-XPU ran only its guard job, so this PR builds no XPU image.

What this review measured, with controls.

Images: this review used the CI images of 0c694415b6, …-vllm-runtime and …-vllm-runtime-test. For vLLM 0.31.0 it used the merge-base image c3b7504607…-vllm-runtime-test. All runs used one RTX 6000 Ada.

Dockerfiles. container/render.py rendered 90 vLLM combinations per tree (3 devices, 5 targets, 3 platforms, EFA on and off). 70 render in both trees, and the same 20 XPU arm64 cases fail in both. All 40 CPU and XPU outputs are byte-identical. All 30 CUDA outputs change, EFA included. They change only the runtime tag and the Omni ref, and they lose the Transformers and tokenizers pin arguments, install step and version check. After a merge with main at e2a57bf06c, the CUDA change is the same apart from the uv cache id. Since then, main changed no file under container/. No other file reads transformers_version, tokenizers_version, TRANSFORMERS_VERSION or TOKENIZERS_VERSION.

Packages, merge base to head: vLLM 0.31.0 to 0.32.0, Omni 0.31.0rc1 to 0.32.0rc1, Transformers 5.14.1 to 5.19.0, tokenizers 0.22.2 to 0.23.3, NIXL 1.4.1 to 1.5.0. torch 2.13.0+cu130, FlashInfer 0.7.0.post1 and ai-dynamo 1.6.0 do not change. The Omni install step leaves Transformers and tokenizers alone. It moves huggingface-hub from 2.2.0 to 1.33.0 and accelerate from 1.15.0 to 1.12.0, which vLLM 0.32.0 and Omni accept. The upstream base also moves grpcio and grpcio-status from 1.84.0 to 1.78.0 and adds grpcio-observability 1.78.0.

Base layers and codecs. On amd64 and arm64, the first five layers of the head image match the cuda@2ab6381d baseline, nvidia/cuda:13.0.2-base-ubuntu24.04. A different baseline does not match. The only libavcodec is the in-tree /usr/local/lib/libavcodec_dynamo.so.63.1.101, with a copy in the retained source tree. It registers 3 decoders, none of h264, hevc, aac, aac_fixed and aac_latm. compliance.scan_codecs over / reports 0 violations, 6 PyNvVideoCodec exceptions and 37 allowed paths, the same as the merge-base image. A planted libavcodec.so.99 fails it. The CI audit compared against osrb-vllm-runtime-13.0-amd64-c3b75046.csv, the merge-base inventory, as the description says.

Serving, Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B, --max-model-len 256, a 26-token prompt, temperature 0 and ignore_eos. The Dynamo columns use the frontend and one worker:

request	Dynamo, 0.31.0, base code	Dynamo, 0.31.0, head code	Dynamo, 0.32.0, head	native vllm serve 0.32.0
max_tokens 16, plain and streamed	200, length, 16	same	same	same
max_tokens 230, the remaining context	200, length, 230	same	same	same
max_tokens 231	400 context_length	400	200, length, 230	200, length, 230
max_tokens 100000, plain and streamed	400	400	200, length, 230	400
max_completion_tokens 100000	400	400	200, length, 230	400
no max_tokens, plain and streamed	200, length, 230	same	same	same
prompt longer than the context	400 context_length	400	400	400
published reject_total_overflow	true	true	false	none

Disaggregated serving with NIXL 1.5.0. A decode and a prefill worker with NixlConnector on one GPU served 3 requests with 112-token prompts (200, length). The request counter of each worker went from 0 to 3, and the decode worker logged NIXL compatibility check passed.

Embedding pool, Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, --embedding-worker-processes 2, 0.32.0. 32 requests returned 200, and each process served 16 (status ports 8081 and 8082). The parent holds only its own two listeners and the child holds its own two. EngineCore holds none. After SIGTERM the parent exited 0 in 16 s, and no worker process, listener or RPC folder stayed. In vLLM 0.32.0, ZmqListener.cleanup() closes through the Python socket object. So after the parent's listener.close(), a later cleanup() did not close the reused descriptor numbers 3 and 4, and a raw os.close control did. A child that exits at startup with status 3 makes the monitor send SIGTERM to the parent. The parent finishes startup, shuts down and exits 0, and nothing stays behind. That shutdown path is unchanged code. On 0.31.0 with the head code, the same pool served 32 requests, 16 per process, and stopped cleanly.

Encode worker, Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct, with the encode and PD workers on one GPU and a generated image of a red circle and a blue square:

mm_device_do_normalize	answer
False, as in this head	"A red circle and a blue square."
True, the 0.32.0 default for this model	"The image contains a black circle and a black square."

vLLM 0.31.0 EngineArgs also has mm_device_do_normalize, so the CPU and XPU images accept the argument.

Imports. prepost.py, vllm_processor.py, vllm_protocol.py and the realtime factory import on 0.32.0 from vllm.renderers.chat_utils. On 0.31.0 with the head files, they import from vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils.

Tests. In the head test image, the vLLM and frontend unit tests (vllm and (gpu_0 or gpu_1) and not e2e) gave 2864 passed. The merge-base image gave 2865 passed. Both failed the same 10 tests, whose models are not in the offline cache. The vLLM case of tests/serve/test_token_budget_parity.py passed. On 0.31.0, vllm and xpu_1 and not e2e gave the same result with the head code and with the base code (990 passed). No changed test carries xpu_1. Three changed tests fail on 0.31.0 with the head code: two in test_runtime_metadata.py, and test_engine_core_struct_contract, because Omni 0.31.0rc1 has no is_coalesced. No CI lane runs them on 0.31.0.

At b7da936a80, test_embedding_worker_processes.py passed (14 tests). Four breaks each made its listener test fail. The breaks removed pass_fds, swapped the two child descriptors, removed the call to _run_listener_child(), or removed the echo in the child.

Deliberate breaks of the new code, run against the changed test files (664 pass without a break):

break	failing tests
has_vllm_output_clamping() returns False	test_vllm_token_budget_matches_rejection_policy, test_build_sampling_params_caps_oversized_max_tokens
the 0.32 branch of build_sampling_params removed	test_build_sampling_params_caps_oversized_max_tokens
reject_total_overflow=True on 0.32	test_vllm_token_budget_matches_rejection_policy
mm_device_do_normalize removed	test_vllm_encoder_settings_from_environment
pass_fds removed, or the two child descriptors swapped	test_embedding_child_adopts_supervisor_bound_listeners
the realtime factory imports only vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils	4 tests in test_realtime_handler.py
vllm_protocol.py imports only vllm.entrypoints.chat_utils	collection errors in 2 files
the parent passes listeners=()	none, and a real pool still served all 32 requests
the parent keeps the child's listener copies	none

[dmitry-tokarev-nv]

No P0 or P1 found at head b7da936a80d913aadcb74c39a84a952202ce3be9. One P2 and two P3 items stay open in the COMMENT review: max_tokens above max_model_len on vLLM 0.32, the NIXL version in the main rows of the compatibility tables, and the pydantic version above the ai-dynamo-runtime ceiling.

This review rendered every vLLM Dockerfile target at the merge base and at this head. It tested the CI images of 0c694415b6 and of the merge base on one GPU. b7da936a80 changes only test_embedding_worker_processes.py, and that file passed at b7da936a80. The tests covered:

• Serving with oversized and missing max_tokens, against native vllm serve 0.32.0.
• The two-process embedding pool and its shutdown.
• The encode worker with Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.
• A NIXL 1.5.0 prefill and decode pair.
• Imports on vLLM 0.31.0 and 0.32.0.
• The vLLM unit tests and deliberate breaks of the new code.

CI run 39997786673 passed on 0c694415b6. The PR run 40008665133 on this head was still queued at 19:24Z. Open items: two threads from other reviewers. Not tested: the CPU and XPU images, Omni image generation, and a pip install of ai-dynamo[vllm].