Upload speeds extremely slow / stalling since April 1st
Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial]
April 4, 2026
Possibly bug of Windows?
This likely matches huggingface_hub issue #3871 and PR #3912. It does not look like a new April 1 outage. The pattern matches a Windows multipart upload bug for files with new data over ~2 GB.
HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFERis deprecated now, so toggling it is not informative. The best workaround for now is trying the upload from WSL/Linux/macOS, and using the officialHF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1flag for a clean non-Xet test. Uploads withNew Data Uploadover 2GB get stuck in Windows 11 with Python 3.12 · Issue #3871 · huggingface/huggingface_hub · GitHub
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