We’ve been busy in 2024 so far, bringing you WebSockets, interactive commands, H100s and more. Learn about what’s new at Modal.
🐚 Interactive commands
You can use modal container exec to run interactive commands inside active
Modal containers. Inspect the filesystem of an in-progress job, monitor
processes, or debug environment issues.
🔗 WebSocket support
Modal functions now support the WebSocket protocol. This unlocks the ability to host frameworks like Streamlit and ComfyUI out of the box. Stay tuned for more native WebSocket-based Modal examples.
Read the docs 
🚀 H100 GPUs
You asked, and we delivered. H100s are now available on Modal!
Read the announcement 
👩💻 Client updates
pip install --upgrade modal to get the latest features:
- @build Decorated-based lifecycle hooks
- Volumes can now have automatic background commits.
- Volumes have more CLI commands including get, put and rm.
- Sandboxes support lookup from ID, terminate and poll.
- with image.imports() for declaring global image-specific imports
- Image.from_registry supports private Docker registry authentication.
- Dicts can now be cleared.
Want more updates? The Modal client now has a detailed changelog.
🍉 Fresh examples
- Turbo.art, a playground for creative exploration
- Embedding English Wikipedia in under 15 minutes
- How to fine-tune an LLM on Modal
- Host ComfyUI on Modal
If you’ve built anything else using Modal, share it with us on the community Slack.
