vLLM releases its V1 engine in alpha
V1 engine alpha — scheduler, KV manager and workers fully rewritten
Why it matters
Made prefix caching the default; up to 1.7× faster than V0
Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”
Officialvllm.aihttps://vllm.ai/blog/2025-01-27-v1-alpha-releaseAdded in Week 35, 2026 · See that week