v0.9.1rc3

This is the 3rd release candidate of v0.9.1 for vLLM Ascend. Please follow the official doc to get started.

Core

• MTP supports V1 scheduler #2371
• Add LMhead TP communication groups #1956
• Fix the bug that qwen3 moe doesn't work with aclgraph #2478
• Fix grammar_bitmask IndexError caused by outdated apply_grammar_bitmask method #2314
• Remove chunked_prefill_for_mla #2177
• Fix bugs and refactor cached mask generation logic #2326
• Fix configuration check logic about ascend scheduler #2327
• Cancel the verification between deepseek-mtp and non-ascend scheduler in disaggregated-prefill deployment #2368
• Fix issue that failed with ray distributed backend #2306
• Fix incorrect req block length in ascend scheduler #2394
• Fix header include issue in rope #2398
• Fix mtp config bug #2412
• Fix error info and adapt attn_metedata refactor #2402
• Fix torchair runtime errror caused by configuration mismtaches and .kv_cache_bytes file missing #2312
• Move with_prefill allreduce from cpu to npu #2230

Docs

• Add document for deepseek large EP #2339

Known Issues

• Full graph mode support are not yet available for some case with full_cuda_graph enable. #2182

Full Changelog: v0.9.1rc2...v0.9.1rc3