diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fc135d4951..18d2e2e994 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ This repository periodically synchronizes all official Kubeflow components from
 | KServe | applications/kserve/kserve | [v0.15.2](https://github.com/kserve/kserve/releases/tag/v0.15.2/install/v0.15.2) | 600m | 1200Mi | 0GB |
 | KServe Models Web Application | applications/kserve/models-web-app | [v0.15.0](https://github.com/kserve/models-web-app/tree/v0.15.0/config) | 6m | 259Mi  | 0GB |
 | Kubeflow Pipelines | applications/pipeline/upstream | [2.15.0](https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/tree/2.15.0/manifests/kustomize) | 970m | 3552Mi | 35GB |
-| Kubeflow Model Registry | applications/model-registry/upstream | [v0.3.4](https://github.com/kubeflow/model-registry/tree/v0.3.4/manifests/kustomize) | 510m | 2112Mi | 20GB |
+| Kubeflow Model Registry | applications/model-registry/upstream | [v0.3.5](https://github.com/kubeflow/model-registry/tree/v0.3.5/manifests/kustomize) | 510m | 2112Mi | 20GB |
 | Spark Operator	|	applications/spark/spark-operator	|	[2.4.0](https://github.com/kubeflow/spark-operator/tree/v2.4.0) | 9m | 41Mi | 0GB |
 | Istio | common/istio | [1.28.0](https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/tag/1.28.0) | 750m | 2364Mi | 0GB |
 | Knative | common/knative/knative-serving <br /> common/knative/knative-eventing | [v1.20.0](https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.0) <br /> [v1.20.0](https://github.com/knative/eventing/releases/tag/knative-v1.20.0) | 1450m | 1038Mi | 0GB |
diff --git a/applications/model-registry/upstream/base/kustomization.yaml b/applications/model-registry/upstream/base/kustomization.yaml
index 9e4fdbb238..e5ca7045c1 100644
--- a/applications/model-registry/upstream/base/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/applications/model-registry/upstream/base/kustomization.yaml
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ resources:
 images:
 - name: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/server
   newName: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/server
-  newTag: v0.3.4
+  newTag: v0.3.5
diff --git a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/hf-sources-example.yaml b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/hf-sources-example.yaml
index 2a9134b469..dc3fb7af1e 100644
--- a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/hf-sources-example.yaml
+++ b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/hf-sources-example.yaml
@@ -5,22 +5,71 @@ catalogs:
     enabled: true
     properties:
       yamlCatalogPath: sample-catalog.yaml
-  - name: Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog
-    id: rhec
-    type: rhec
+  # Basic Hugging Face Hub configuration with specific models
+  - name: Hugging Face Hub - Specific Models
+    id: hf-specific
+    type: hf
     enabled: true
     properties:
-      models:
-        - repository: rhelai1/modelcar-granite-7b-starter
-  - name: HuggingFace Hub
-    id: huggingface
+      # Name of the environment variable containing the Hugging Face API key.
+      # The API key value itself should be stored in a Kubernetes Secret and
+      # exposed as an environment variable in the pod/deployment configuration.
+      # Default environment variable name is "HF_API_KEY"
+      apiKeyEnvVar: "HF_API_KEY"
+    includedModels:
+      - "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B"
+      - "microsoft/phi-2"
+      - "huggingface/CodeBERTa-small-v1"
+    excludedModels:
+      - "some-org/*"
+
+  # Example using allowedOrganization to restrict to Meta LLaMA models
+  # This automatically prefixes model patterns with "meta-llama/"
+  - name: Meta LLaMA Models Only
+    id: hf-meta-llama
     type: hf
-    enabled: true
+    enabled: false  # disabled by default
+    properties:
+      apiKeyEnvVar: "HF_API_KEY"
+      allowedOrganization: "meta-llama"
+    includedModels:
+      # These patterns will be automatically prefixed with "meta-llama/"
+      - "*"           # Expands to all models: meta-llama/*
+      - "Llama-3*"    # Expands to: meta-llama/Llama-3*
+      - "CodeLlama-*" # Expands to: meta-llama/CodeLlama-*
+    excludedModels:
+      - "*-4bit"      # Excludes: meta-llama/*-4bit
+      - "*-GGUF"      # Excludes: meta-llama/*-GGUF
+
+  # Example using wildcard patterns without organization restriction
+  - name: Microsoft Models
+    id: hf-microsoft
+    type: hf
+    enabled: false  # disabled by default
+    properties:
+      apiKeyEnvVar: "HF_API_KEY"
+    includedModels:
+      # Full wildcard patterns (organization/model)
+      - "microsoft/phi-*"         # All phi variants
+      - "microsoft/DialoGPT-*"    # All DialoGPT variants
+    excludedModels:
+      - "*-base"      # Exclude base models
+      - "*-uncensored" # Exclude uncensored variants
+
+  # Example combining specific models with wildcard patterns
+  - name: Mixed Model Selection
+    id: hf-mixed
+    type: hf
+    enabled: false  # disabled by default
     properties:
-      # HuggingFace API key - should be stored in a Kubernetes secret
-      # and referenced here, or set via environment variable
-      apiKey: "${HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY}"
-      # Optional: Custom HuggingFace URL (defaults to https://huggingface.co)
-      url: "https://huggingface.co"
-      # Optional: Limit the number of models to fetch (defaults to 100)
-      modelLimit: 200
+      apiKeyEnvVar: "HF_API_KEY"
+    includedModels:
+      # Specific models
+      - "huggingface/CodeBERTa-small-v1"
+      - "microsoft/DialoGPT-medium"
+      # Wildcard patterns
+      - "microsoft/phi-3*"        # All phi-3 variants
+      - "huggingface/CodeBERTa-*" # All CodeBERTa variants
+    excludedModels:
+      - "*-base"      # Exclude base models
+      - "*-draft"     # Exclude draft models
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diff --git a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/kustomization.yaml b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/kustomization.yaml
index 03ff29baab..f12ecd06be 100644
--- a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/catalog/base/kustomization.yaml
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ secretGenerator:
 images:
 - name: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/server
   newName: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/server
-  newTag: v0.3.4
+  newTag: v0.3.5
diff --git a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/csi/kustomization.yaml b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/csi/kustomization.yaml
index 3f46c53cda..f88f7faeab 100644
--- a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/csi/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/csi/kustomization.yaml
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ resources:
 images:
 - name: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/storage-initializer
   newName: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/storage-initializer
-  newTag: v0.3.4
+  newTag: v0.3.5
diff --git a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/ui/base/kustomization.yaml b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/ui/base/kustomization.yaml
index 9bc374d821..69ec6d0692 100644
--- a/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/ui/base/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/applications/model-registry/upstream/options/ui/base/kustomization.yaml
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ resources:
 images:
 - name: model-registry-ui
   newName: ghcr.io/kubeflow/model-registry/ui
-  newTag: v0.3.4
+  newTag: v0.3.5