Issues

• [BUG] Placement deadlocks ~1 in 15 times: runner stuck in mx.distributed.init, status never reaches the master, node wedged until restart

  exo-explore/exo#2464 · Filter by author thenaithan opened on Oct 23, 2026

• Docker Setup Script

  exo-explore/exo#2446 · Filter by author vshl3 opened on Oct 22, 2026

• [BUG] Tensor parallel placement ignores per-device memory; model that fits in combined RAM is placed, then the smaller node's runner aborts (SIGABRT) in a loop

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2430 · Filter by author alexyak opened on Oct 13, 2026

• [BUG] model load fail when it's downloading from Hugging face

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2428 · Filter by author andrewPillai opened on Oct 12, 2026

• [BUG] 32 threads, 1 core working: Linux CPU inference is pinned to a single thread (after 5 broken install steps just to get there)

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2382 · Filter by author DevLenn opened on Oct 2, 2026
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• [BUG] exo polls Hugging Face every ~60 s for mlx-community/GLM-4.7-8bit-gs32 (never requested) — auth error each time

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2376 · Filter by author t1m3band1t opened on Oct 1, 2026

• [BUG] EXO.app sits at ~105–110% CPU after first launch following a cold boot (one node only); one stop/start usually clears it; relaunching EXO.app alone always has

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2375 · Filter by author t1m3band1t opened on Oct 1, 2026
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• [BUG] Long prompt (~19k tokens) aborts the runner (SIGABRT on Metal completion queue) at the default GPU wired limit; succeeds with iogpu.wired_limit_mb raised

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2374 · Filter by author t1m3band1t opened on Oct 1, 2026

• Field report: running a 4-Mac home cluster daily on exo 1.0.71 — five one-click Dock buttons that work around the open issues we kept hitting

  exo-explore/exo#2373 · Filter by author t1m3band1t opened on Oct 1, 2026

• [BUG] [Linux] mlx-cpu extra: ImportError undefined symbol (ThreadLocalStream) on import mlx.core – fork mlx wheel incompatible with PyPI mlx-cpu libmlx.so

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2359 · Filter by author DevLenn opened on Sep 30, 2026
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• Deprecate dashboard allowMemoryOverride legacy boolean

  exo-explore/exo#2315 · Filter by author cdvankammen opened on Sep 18, 2026

• Deprecate Ollama /ollama/api/api/* typo-alias routes

  exo-explore/exo#2314 · Filter by author cdvankammen opened on Sep 18, 2026

• Track WarnExtraModel forbid follow-up: flip extra=ignore to extra=forbid after deprecation notice

  exo-explore/exo#2313 · Filter by author cdvankammen opened on Sep 18, 2026

• [BUG] - MLX ring fails when master and workers disagree on the master's ring IP (directed-only edge lookup), and placement always selects the smallest cycle so multi-node clusters never form (pipeline stays world_size=1)

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2310 · Filter by author tcorsi-git opened on Sep 13, 2026

• [Bug] MLX Ring fails on 2-node Thunderbolt cluster — master and worker pick different IPs for the master (Ethernet vs Thunderbolt)

  exo-explore/exo#2309 · Filter by author tcorsi-git opened on Sep 13, 2026

• [BUG] Qwen3.8-27B Q8/BF16 processor initialization and sustained-decoding failures

  exo-explore/exo#2302 · Filter by author marksmeltzer opened on Sep 10, 2026

• Support for shared storage backend

  enhancement
  exo-explore/exo#2299 · Filter by author Data-Hoarderr opened on Sep 8, 2026
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• MlxRing hostfile uses the nodes' LAN addresses even when a Thunderbolt link is available (pipeline over Wi-Fi: 8.7 vs 25.4 tok/s)

  exo-explore/exo#2295 · Filter by author zhast opened on Sep 2, 2026
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• Project maintenance status and roadmap?

  exo-explore/exo#2292 · Filter by author algethamy opened on Sep 2, 2026
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• Election restarts every ~5 s on an idle libp2p cluster and pauses the API for each campaign (~3 s stall on most requests)

  exo-explore/exo#2288 · Filter by author zhast opened on Sep 2, 2026

• [BUG] Support Qwen 3.8 Flash next (qwen4_exp)

  bug
  exo-explore/exo#2285 · Filter by author hajajmaor opened on Sep 1, 2026

• Kimi K2 tool-call parsing fails when the model emits functions_<name>_<n> ids; failure surfaces as an error chunk containing the raw tool-call markup

  exo-explore/exo#2281 · Filter by author Bdwg222 opened on Aug 31, 2026

• [BUG] KV prefix cache replays a previous image's features for token-identical vision requests (different images → identical answers)

  exo-explore/exo#2272 · Filter by author emilio-melroseinc opened on Aug 21, 2026

• Two Ubuntu nodes on same LAN fail to discover each other — no errors, network confirmed working

  exo-explore/exo#2271 · Filter by author FranckRICHARD01 opened on Aug 20, 2026
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• Tensor-parallel (MlxJaccl) output corrupts on prompts >~4k tokens — 2× M3 Ultra 512GB, EXO 1.0.71. Is there a newer build with the JACCL/prefill fixes?

  exo-explore/exo#2270 · Filter by author nachogala opened on Aug 18, 2026
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