🌟 Summary

The v8.3.23 release of Ultralytics YOLO introduces stability improvements by fixing a bug in the data conversion process, updating versioning, and refining user settings and documentation.

📊 Key Changes

• Version Update: The software version is updated from 8.3.22 to 8.3.23.
• Bug Fix in Data Conversion: Ensures yolo_bbox2segment skips generating empty segment lists, preventing potential errors.
• Reduced Python Warnings: Edited Python version check to minimize console spam.
• Documentation Update: Corrected export format examples for INT8 quantization, aligning with TensorRT capabilities.
• W&B Logger Default: Weights & Biases logging is now disabled by default.
• Environment Detection: Enhanced accuracy for identifying Jupyter environments.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 🚀 Improved Stability: Fixing the bug in data conversion leads to more reliable performance during bounding box to segment transformations.
• 📉 Cleaner Console: Less console clutter from Python checks makes for a smoother user experience.
• 📝 Clearer Documentation: Updated docs guide users on proper export procedures, easing model deployment tasks.
• 📈 Optimized Resource Use: Disabling Weights & Biases by default reduces unnecessary compute and network usage unless needed.
• 🧠 Reliable Environment Behavior: Accurate environment detection prevents misidentification in diverse setups, adapting better to where the software runs.

What's Changed

• Fix Python warning spam by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/17162
• Fix inaccurate example in Export docs by @Y-T-G in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/17161
• Default W&B setting False by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/17164
• ultralytics 8.3.23 fix bbox2segment when no segments generated by @Laughing-q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/17157

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.22...v8.3.23