Bump Gradio to 5.x and bind launch to

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ emoji: 🌲
 colorFrom: indigo
 colorTo: yellow
 sdk: gradio
-sdk_version: 4.44.1
+sdk_version: 5.0.1
 python_version: "3.10"
 suggested_hardware: cpu-basic
 app_file: app.py

app.py

@@ -4989,6 +4989,8 @@ def main() -> int:
     # would suppress the "Running on http://..." console banner, which
     # is useful info — leave it on.
     demo.launch(
+        server_name="0.0.0.0",
+        server_port=7860,
         allowed_paths=[str(_HERE / "assets")],
         show_api=False,
         show_error=True,

requirements.txt

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-# Gradio frontend.
-# Pin huggingface_hub<0.34 because gradio 4.44.x still imports HfFolder,
-# which was removed from huggingface_hub in 0.34. Without this pin HF's
-# Space env auto-resolves huggingface_hub to a too-new version and the
-# import in gradio/oauth.py fails on boot.
-gradio>=4.44,<6
-huggingface_hub>=0.23,<0.34
+# Gradio frontend. Pinned to 5.x — 4.44 has a Jinja2 cache-key bug
+# (TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict') that fires on every HTTP request
+# with the Jinja2 version HF Spaces installs in 2026, and also drags
+# along the HfFolder import that newer huggingface_hub removed.
+gradio>=5.0,<6
 
 # OpenAI client — used as the SDK for the Modal-hosted vLLM endpoint
 openai>=1.40