Summary
vLLM 0.31 introduces a weight-cache daemon and snapshot create/restore workflows for faster engine recovery. The release also expands speculative decoding, large-scale expert-parallel serving and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash optimisations.
Why it matters
Faster recovery and more efficient serving directly reduce the operational cost and downtime of production AI developer platforms.
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