Announcing Ultralytics YOLO v8.2.69!
Hello Ultralytics community!
We are thrilled to announce the release of Ultralytics YOLO v8.2.69! This update brings a host of improvements and new features designed to enhance your experience and streamline your workflows. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:
Key Features and Improvements
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Issue Templates Updates:
- Standardized language in bug report and question templates to consistently reference “Ultralytics YOLO”. This helps in providing more consistent and comprehensive bug reports and questions, facilitating faster and more accurate triaging.
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Documentation Enhancements:
- Added detailed guides on integrating IBM Watsonx and JupyterLab for model training. These guides enable users to expand their training environments, offering more flexibility and productivity in model training and experimentation.
- Minor formatting and structural enhancements in various dataset and integration documentation.
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FastSAM Enhancements:
- Merged all prompting functionalities directly into the
FastSAMclass, removing the need forFastSAMPrompt. This simplifies usage, making it easier for users to apply multiple prompt types (bounding boxes, points, texts) in a single call and improving model inference performance.
- Merged all prompting functionalities directly into the
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Bug Fixes:
- Fixed class imbalance augmentation issue in the data augmentation script, ensuring more reliable and balanced training data generation.
- Formatting corrections in Google Cloud region latency output, aiding in the easier identification of the best regions for deployment.
Purpose & Impact
These updates focus on enhancing user experience, expanding documentation, and improving model functionalities for more efficient and effective workflows. Whether you’re integrating new tools, refining your training data, or optimizing your deployment, this release has something for you.
What’s Changed
- Add JupyterLab Integrations Docs Page by @abirami-vina in #14755
- Fixed typo and formatting OpenVINO integration by @ambitious-octopus in #14773
- Add IBM Watsonx Integrations Docs Page by @abirami-vina in #14785
- Update Ultralytics issue templates by @ambitious-octopus in #14718
- Eliminate
set()to avoidset()+list()op by @QinghongLin in #14745 ultralytics 8.2.69FastSAM prompt inference refactor by @Laughing-q in #14724
New Contributors
- @QinghongLin made their first contribution in #14745
Full Changelog
For a detailed list of all changes, check out the full changelog.
We encourage you to try out the new release and share your feedback. Your insights are invaluable in helping us improve and evolve Ultralytics YOLO. Thank you for being a part of our community!
Happy coding! 