# New Release: Ultralytics v8.3.248

**URL:** <https://community.ultralytics.com/t/new-release-ultralytics-v8-3-248/1727>\
**Category:** Discussion\
**Tags:** releases, announcements, ultralytics-official\
**Created:** [January 5, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.ultralytics.com/t/new-release-ultralytics-v8-3-248/1727 "2026-01-05T13:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![glenn-jocher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.ultralytics.com/glenn-jocher/32/83_2.png) [@glenn-jocher](https://community.ultralytics.com/u/glenn-jocher)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.ultralytics.com/t/new-release-ultralytics-v8-3-248/1727/1 "2026-01-05T13:17:57Z")

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## 🚀 Ultralytics v8.3.248 is out! 🧰✅

**TL;DR:** `v8.3.248` makes auto-installation _much_ more reliable by ensuring `uv pip install` targets the **currently running Python interpreter** (plus a few small quality-of-life improvements). 🎯

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## 🌟 New Features / Key Changes

### 🧪🎯 Auto-install now targets the active interpreter explicitly

`check_requirements()` now runs `uv pip install` with `--python {sys.executable}` so packages install into the **right environment** (venv/conda/system), even in tricky setups (e.g., CI or missing `VIRTUAL_ENV`).

This change comes from PR [#23118](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/23118) by [@glenn-jocher](https://github.com/glenn-jocher).

**Also removed:** the previous fallback retry using `uv pip install --system`, which could accidentally install into system Python.

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## 🚀 Improvements

### 🔍📦 IMX export: more robust `imxconv-pt` discovery

The IMX export workflow now looks for `imxconv-pt` in the **current Python environment’s `bin/` directory first** (venv-friendly), then falls back to `PATH`.

If it’s missing, it fails fast with a clear hint: `pip install imx500-converter[pt]`.

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## 🐛 Bug Fixes / Cleanup

### 🧹 Cleaner plotting code comment

Removed an incorrect TODO in `plot_images` that implied a required box-format conversion might be unnecessary—less confusion for contributors.

From PR [#23114](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/23114) by [@raimbekovm](https://github.com/raimbekovm).

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## 🐳 Docker Quality-of-Life

### 🔇 Quieter container logs

Docker images now set `TORCH_CPP_LOG_LEVEL=ERROR` to suppress noisy PyTorch NNPACK warnings in containers.

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## 📦 Upgrade / Try it now

```bash
pip install -U ultralytics

```

Then run a quick sanity check:

```python
from ultralytics import YOLO

model = YOLO("yolo11n.pt")
model.predict("https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg")

```

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## 🔎 Release links

You can review the full release details in the [Ultralytics v8.3.248 release page](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/releases/tag/v8.3.248), and explore everything that changed in the [full changelog comparison](https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.247...v8.3.248).

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## 💬 Feedback welcome!

If you hit anything unexpected (especially around auto-installs in venv/conda/CI), please drop details here or open an issue in the repo—repro steps + your environment info help a lot. 🙏