Ultralytics v8.3.151 Release Announcement
Summary
We’re excited to announce the release of Ultralytics v8.3.151! This update delivers cleaner, more customizable metric reporting across all tasks, significant efficiency improvements for video processing, enhanced object tracking, and expanded documentation. Whether you’re new to Ultralytics or a seasoned pro, you’ll enjoy a more polished, robust, and user-friendly experience. 
New Features & Major Improvements
Customizable and Consistent Metric Reporting
- Added
decimalsandnormalizeoptions to all metric summary methods. Now, you can control the precision and format of your evaluation results—making metric summaries clearer, more flexible, and ready for any presentation or analysis. - Unified metric summaries for detection, segmentation, pose, classification, and OBB tasks for a smoother and more consistent experience.
Documentation and Onboarding Enhancements
- Expanded and clarified documentation for metric reporting with new usage examples.
- Updated the Google Cloud quickstart guide to direct users to the best, most up-to-date resource.
Video Processing & Object Tracking Optimizations
- Improved efficiency in the TrackZone solution by reusing region masks rather than recalculating each frame—for faster, more scalable video analysis.
- Enhanced object tracking reliability by ensuring the tracklet “age” counter increases even with no detections, which helps maintain smoother and more reliable tracking, even in challenging scenarios.
Testing and Stability
- Continuous integration (CI) improvements: Now runs comprehensive tests across all features (including the solutions package) for higher code quality and reliability.
Purpose & Impact
- Sharper Results: Generate metric reports with the precision and format you prefer.
- Consistent Experience: Unified outputs and improved docs make it even easier to interpret and share evaluation results.
- Efficiency Boost: Faster video and real-time processing thanks to smarter mask handling.
- Robust Tracking: Smoother, more reliable object tracking—even when detections are missed.
- Stability: Broader test coverage means more robust and reliable releases.
- Onboarding: Updated cloud docs help new and existing users get started faster.
New Contributors
Big welcome and thanks to @jens-siebert for their first contribution in PR #20945!
Full Changelog & Release Links
- See all the latest improvements in v8.3.151 Full Changelog
- Official release notes: Ultralytics v8.3.151 Release Page
Try It Out and Share Your Feedback!
Ready to take this new release for a spin? Upgrade today and let us know what you think—your feedback helps make Ultralytics even better for everyone. As always, contributions from the amazing YOLO community and Ultralytics team drive these advancements. Happy experimenting, and don’t hesitate to start or join a discussion if you have questions or suggestions!
— The Ultralytics Team