diff --git a/src/autotrain/__init__.py b/src/autotrain/__init__.py
index c3d92de4d9..0f5d0ea224 100644
--- a/src/autotrain/__init__.py
+++ b/src/autotrain/__init__.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=UserWarning, module="huggingface_hub")
 
 logger = Logger().get_logger()
-__version__ = "0.8.24.dev0"
+__version__ = "0.8.24"
 
 
 def is_colab():
diff --git a/src/autotrain/app/ui_routes.py b/src/autotrain/app/ui_routes.py
index fcd861d754..ee1ebbf80a 100644
--- a/src/autotrain/app/ui_routes.py
+++ b/src/autotrain/app/ui_routes.py
@@ -284,6 +284,11 @@
         "type": "number",
         "label": "Max doc stride",
     },
+    "distributed_backend": {
+        "type": "dropdown",
+        "label": "Distributed backend",
+        "options": ["ddp", "deepspeed"],
+    },
 }