* install: preserve the previous torch release across every flavor and vendor
A re-run of curl | sh over an existing install was supposed to keep the
user's validated torch release, but the pin required the old build's
local flavor tag to match the freshly chosen index leaf. That gate was
wrong in practice: a PyPI-sourced torch reports a BARE version (on Linux
the PyPI wheel IS a CUDA build), which classified as cpu and never
matched a cu leaf, so a healthy 2.10 on a cu130 host was silently moved
to 2.11 (reproduced end to end); the same happened for any flavor drift
such as cu128 to cu130 after a driver upgrade, and AMD ROCm leaves were
excluded from preservation entirely.
The rule is now release-based and flavor-agnostic: the probed previous
release is pinned whenever it sits inside the final constraint window,
and the pin installs from the freshly chosen index, so the flavor always
follows the machine (NVIDIA cu*, AMD rocm/gfx, Intel/CPU, mac) while the
release follows the user. The pin is evaluated AFTER every index and
constraint decision including the Strix reroute, so raised floors
(rocm7.2 / Strix gfx need torch 2.11 for the _grouped_mm fix) correctly
reject an older release and win. UNSLOTH_TORCH_UPGRADE=1 still opts out,
out-of-window releases are never kept, and probe noise never becomes a
pin.
The kept-release install with its range fallback (for indexes that do
not carry the exact release) is factored into
_install_torch_default_index and used by every --default-index torch
path: the default NVIDIA/CPU/mac path and all three ROCm-index
fallbacks, which previously bypassed the fallback. The Radeon-repo
direct-wheel path keeps its curated per-arch wheel set (those wheels are
already exact-pinned per rocm release).
Platform coverage: install.sh serves Linux, WSL (including the WoA
fallback), and macOS for all vendors; native Windows install.ps1 still
caps at <2.11.0 everywhere, so the silent 2.10-to-2.11 move cannot occur
there (2.11 alignment is a separate follow-up).
Verified: 35-check unit suite rewritten to the new spec (any-flavor
keep, floor rejection, noise, window edges, opt-out, wiring including
pin-after-reroute and helper coverage); end-to-end matrix against
sandboxed UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME installs on a cu130 host covering PyPI
bare, cu128 drift, cu130 same-flavor, out-of-window 2.3, the upgrade
opt-out, the hidden-GPU cpu leaf, and a fresh-install control.
* install: honor the kept torch release on the Radeon direct-wheel path
The Radeon repo path installs an explicit wheel trio selected by
_pick_radeon_wheel, bypassing --default-index, so the kept-release pin
only took effect when the listing failed and the install fell back to
the ROCm index. On a re-run over an in-window Radeon install the trio
search started at the newest common minor and silently moved the user
forward (2.9 to 2.10 whenever the repo offered both).
The trio search now starts at the kept release's minor when
_PREV_TORCH_PIN is set and the listing still offers a torch wheel for
that minor. Radeon wheels are patch-curated per rocm release, so the
minor is the unit of preservation there; the raised rocm7.2 / Strix
floors still win because the pin is window-checked against the final
constraint before this point, and gaps keep the existing downward
search / ROCm-index fallback.
Verified with a simulated listing carrying both a 2.9 and a 2.10 trio:
no pin selects the 2.10 trio, a kept 2.9 release selects the matched
2.9 / 0.24 / 2.9 trio, and an unavailable minor degrades to the newest
trio. Added a structural wiring check to test_previous_torch_pin.sh
(now 36 checks).
* install: tighten comments in the torch preservation paths
* install: exact kept release on the Radeon path, pin fallback in ROCm repairs
The minor-level clamp on the Radeon direct-wheel path still allowed
patch drift (a kept 2.10.0 could become 2.10.1 when the listing carried
both) and the downward gap search could settle below the kept minor,
both breaking the exact preservation guarantee the other vendor paths
honor. The kept release now gets an exact-first trio attempt before the
newest-trio search: pick the kept patch (else the newest patch of the
kept minor, for listings that pruned the exact patch) together with the
paired torchvision/torchaudio wheels for that minor. Any gap warns and
falls back to the unchanged newest-trio search, mirroring
_install_torch_default_index, so a rerun installs either the kept
release or the same set a fresh install would choose, never something
in between.
The two ROCm torch repair sites (torch overwritten by dependency
resolution, on the migrated and fresh paths) installed TORCH_CONSTRAINT
directly, so a pinned release missing from the generic ROCm index would
abort the rerun instead of falling back. Both now route through
_install_torch_default_index, which passes extra uv args through
(--force-reinstall) and clears the pin once the fallback fires so later
paths stay consistent.
Verified against synthetic listings: both patches listed keeps exactly
2.10.0; a kept minor missing vision/audio warns and yields the newest
complete trio rather than a silent undercut; a pruned patch stays on
the kept minor; no pin keeps the existing newest-trio behavior. Unit
suite now 39 checks, all passing.
* install: never pin nightly/dev/source torch builds on a rerun
A survey of published torch version strings (PyPI bare, +cpu, +cu116
through +cu132, +rocmX.Y and +rocmX.Y.Z, +xpu, nightly .devYYYYMMDD,
source a0+git, rc tags) showed one gap: nightly, dev, rc, and source
builds passed the loose release-shape check, producing a pin such as
torch==2.11.0.dev20250704 that no stable index carries. The range
fallback rescued the install, but it printed "keeping it" and then
burned a doomed resolve first. The base must now be a plain numeric
X.Y[.Z] release, so those builds skip the pin and go straight to the
newest supported release.
Added unit checks for +xpu and three-component +rocm7.2.1 tags (both
already preserved correctly) and for nightly, a0 source, and rc builds
(never pinned). Suite now 44 checks, all passing.
* install: pair kept-release companions, protect the flavor repair, note substitutions
Three fixes from a 12-way review pass over the preservation work:
The kept-release install left torchvision and torchaudio unconstrained
next to the exact torch pin. torchvision exact-pins its torch in wheel
metadata so it always paired correctly, but torchaudio no longer does:
a kept torch 2.9.0 on cu130 resolved torchaudio 2.11.0 (verified with
uv dry-runs). The helper now pairs both companions to the kept minor
(torchvision 0.minor+15, torchaudio 2.minor); if the index lacks the
paired set the existing range fallback fires. Verified resolving
correctly on cu130, cu126, and rocm6.4.
The wrong-flavor repair at the end of the install was the one remaining
default-index torch install outside the helper. It runs under set -e,
so a retained pin absent from the repair index (reachable when the
Radeon direct-wheel path installed the kept release and dependency
resolution later overwrote it) aborted the installer at the last step
instead of falling back. It now routes through the helper with its
reinstall flags passed through.
The Radeon kept-release path installed a same-series build silently
when the listing had pruned the exact patch; it now prints what it is
substituting.
Unit suite extended with wiring checks for all three (46 checks, all
passing).
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