New Release: Ultralytics v8.3.8

[glenn-jocher]

Announcing Ultralytics v8.3.8 Release!

Summary

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Ultralytics v8.3.8! This update brings significant performance optimizations, improved exception handling, and enhanced compatibility across platforms. Dive into the details below and see how these changes can benefit your projects.

Key Changes

New Features

• Exception Handling Update: We’ve replaced contextlib.suppress with try-except blocks, resulting in up to 4x faster exception handling. This change boosts overall application performance.

Improvements

• Queue Management: Our queue management solution is now more streamlined and user-friendly, enhancing workflows, especially in object tracking and counting scenarios.
• Environment Compatibility: Improved image display logic for Colab and Kaggle ensures a smoother experience in Jupyter-based notebooks.
• Documentation: We’ve refined our integration docs with Weights & Biases for better clarity and correctness.

Bug Fixes

• Synthetic COCO Labels: Fixed missing labels in synthetic COCO datasets. PR by @glenn-jocher
• YOLO Checks: Added package name to YOLO checks errors for better debugging. PR by @glenn-jocher
• Final Validation: Prevented final validation if val=False. PR by @glenn-jocher
• Jupyter Notebooks: Fixed results.show() for better compatibility. PR by @glenn-jocher
• W&B Docs: Corrected display of admonitions. PR by @jk4e

Purpose & Impact

• Performance: Faster exception handling enhances application speed.
• Code Maintenance: Clearer exception handling improves code readability and eases maintenance.
• User Experience: Enhanced queue management logic ensures smoother workflows.
• Cross-Platform Usability: Improved image display boosts usability on cloud platforms like Colab and Kaggle.

What’s Changed

• Fix synthetic COCO for missing labels by @glenn-jocher
• Add package name to YOLO checks errors by @glenn-jocher
• Prevent final val if val=False by @glenn-jocher
• Fix results.show() for Jupyter notebooks by @glenn-jocher
• Fix display of admonition in W&B docs by @jk4e
• Update queue-management solution by @RizwanMunawar
• Update usage for custom Predictor by @Laughing-q
• Respect ENV value for OMP_NUM_THREADS if set by @Burhan-Q
• Replace contextlib with try for speed by @glenn-jocher

Full Changelog: v8.3.7…v8.3.8

Try It Now!

We invite you to explore the new features and improvements in v8.3.8. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so please share your thoughts and experiences.

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