# hydra-core

> A framework for elegantly configuring complex applications

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/hydra-core
- **Author**: Omry Yadan
- **Category**: Frameworks
- **Latest version**: `1.3.2` (2026-04-21)
- **License**: MIT
- **Source**: https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra
- **Language**: Python
- **GitHub**: 10,328 stars, 826 forks
- **Registry**: pypi (`hydra-core`)
- **Tags**: `command-line`, `configuration`, `pypi`, `tab-completion`, `yaml`

## Description

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    <i>A framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.</i>
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### Releases

#### Stable

**Hydra 1.3** is the stable version of Hydra.
- [Documentation](https://hydra.cc/docs/1.3/intro/)
- Installation : `pip install hydra-core --upgrade`

See the [NEWS.md](NEWS.md) file for a summary of recent changes to Hydra.

### License
Hydra is licensed under [MIT License](LICENSE).

## Hydra Ecosystem

#### Check out these third-party libraries that build on Hydra's functionality:
* [hydra-zen](https://github.com/mit-ll-responsible-ai/hydra-zen): Pythonic utilities for working with Hydra. Dynamic config generation capabilities, enhanced config store features, a Python API for launching Hydra jobs, and more.
* [lightning-hydra-template](https://github.com/ashleve/lightning-hydra-template): user-friendly template combining Hydra with [Pytorch-Lightning](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning) for ML experimentation.
* [hydra-torch](https://github.com/pytorch/hydra-torch): [configen](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/tree/main/tools/configen)-generated configuration classes enabling type-safe PyTorch configuration for Hydra apps.
* NVIDIA's DeepLearningExamples repository contains a Hydra Launcher plugin, the [distributed_launcher](https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples/tree/9c34e35c218514b8607d7cf381d8a982a01175e9/Tools/PyTorch/TimeSeriesPredictionPlatform/distributed_launcher), which makes use of the pytorch [distributed.launch](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.html#launch-utility) API.

#### Ask questions in Github Discussions or StackOverflow (Use the tag #fb-hydra or #omegaconf):
* [Github Discussions](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/discussions)
* [StackOverflow](https://stackexchange.com/filters/391828/hydra-questions)
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Hydra_Framework)

Check out the Meta AI [blog post](https://ai.facebook.com/blog/reengineering-facebook-ais-deep-learning-platforms-for-interoperability/) to learn about how Hydra fits into Meta's efforts to reengineer deep learning platforms for interoperability.

### Citing Hydra
If you use Hydra in your research please use the following BibTeX entry:
```BibTeX
@Misc{Yadan2019Hydra,
  author =       {Omry Yadan},
  title =        {Hydra - A framework for elegantly configuring complex applications},
  howpublished = {Github},
  year =         {2019},
  url =          {https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra}
}
```

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `1.3.2` | 2026-04-21 | Low | Imported from PyPI (1.3.2) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |
| `v1.3.2` | 2023-02-23 | Low | 1.3.2 (2023-02-22) ==================  ### Features  - Add a `hydra.utils.get_object` function that gives users access to Hydra's dotpath-lookup machinery. ([#2139](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2139)) - Allow config_path to specify a non-relative module path, by starting with `pkg://` ([#2564](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2564))  ### Maintenance Changes  - Drop support for python3.6 ([#2304](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra/issues/2304)) |

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