🌟 Summary

The latest update in version 8.3.5 primarily improves image caching by making it more robust and efficient through disk space validation and write permissions checks.

📊 Key Changes

• ⚙️ Version updated from 8.3.4 to 8.3.5.
• 🛠️ New function for checking disk cache check_cache_disk.
• ⚠️ Caching process now includes checks for disk space and write permissions, providing improved warnings if issues are detected.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 🚀 Enhanced Reliability: By ensuring the system has adequate disk space and permissions before caching, it reduces the likelihood of failures, which allows for more stable training processes.
• 💾 Resource Efficiency: Users will experience smoother and more deterministic training runs when disk resources are managed correctly.
• 🔄 Deterministic Training: Provides options for using disk caching to maintain consistency during model training, given that the hardware resources meet the necessary prerequisites.

What's Changed

• Update Docs extra.js by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16663
• Add combined model plot to Docs by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16669
• Remove unused arguments in Ultralytics heatmaps by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16667
• Add https://youtu.be/-JXwa-WlkU8 to docs by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16685
• Clarify stream_buffer argument docs by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16686
• Fix NEW labeling for more consistency in docs by @jk4e in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16674
• Update MkDocs extra.js by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16691
• Zero mAP warning on YAML val by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16698
• Introduced BaseSolution class for Ultralytics solutions by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16671
• Fix and add missing infos about available CLI TASK commands in docs and code comments by @jk4e in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16697
• Fix validator model=None by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16699
• Update docker.yaml to notify on failure once by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16700
• Fix UINT8 overflow for >255 segmentation masks by @rajeshtims in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16690
• ultralytics 8.3.5 add cache=disk space and writable checks by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16696

New Contributors

• @rajeshtims made their first contribution in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/16690

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.4...v8.3.5