# Ray 2.54.1 — Ray-2.54.1 - Product: Ray (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ray) - Vendor: Anyscale - Date: 2026-03-25 - Version: 2.54.1 - Original notes: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/releases/tag/ray-2.54.1 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ray/releases/2.54.1 What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **fixed** — Disable hanging issue detection to prevent blocking calls to the Ray State API that could cause the scheduling loop to block and severely degrade pipeline performance ##### Ray Data 🔨 Fixes - Disable hanging issue detection (#61895) — The hanging issue detector was making blocking calls to the Ray State API, which could cause the scheduling loop to block and severely degrade pipeline performance. The detector is disabled in this patch release until the blocking calls are fixed.