🌟 Summary

The v8.3.48 release focuses on enhanced security, efficiency, and user convenience for the Ultralytics CI/CD pipelines and broader ecosystem. Key highlights include improved workflows for publishing, caching, documentation updates, and dependency handling. 🚀✨

📊 Key Changes

• Workflow Security Enhancements:
  • Split PyPI publishing into stages (check, build, publish, and notify) for better control and automation. 🛠️
  • Enabled version handling to ensure only necessary updates are pushed to PyPI. 🔄
  • Improved notification systems for success or failure reporting. 📣
• Dependency Improvements:
  • Added a --no-cache flag to ensure cleaner and more reliable Python installations during publishing workflows. 🧹
• Better Cache Management:
  • Introduced automated CI cache pruning across workflows, reclaiming gigabytes of disk space in tests and GPU CI jobs. 🧑‍💻💾
• Documentation Fixes:
  • Updated OpenVINO links to guide users toward the most recent version, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information. 🔗📄

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Stronger Security 🔒:
  • The new CI/CD structure minimizes risks by organizing tasks into stricter, separate stages and limiting unnecessary permission exposure during workflows.
• Improved CI/CD Efficiency ✅:
  • Automatic cache pruning and artifact handling enable faster builds/tests while reducing redundant storage usage.
  • The --no-cache flag ensures the freshest dependencies, reducing debugging time caused by outdated installations.
• Enhanced User Experience 🌟:
  • Developers benefit from cleaner workflows in the open-source Ultralytics ecosystem, ensuring smoother package publishing and version management.
  • Updated OpenVINO references ensure users can fully leverage recent AI acceleration tools for optimized model performance.

What's Changed

• Update publish.yml with --no-cache by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/18095
• Add CI cache pruning by @Burhan-Q in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/17664
• OpenVINO broken link fix by @RizwanMunawar in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/18107
• ultralytics 8.3.48 split PyPI publish jobs for security by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/pull/18111

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/compare/v8.3.47...v8.3.48