September 2025 monthly summary for open-edge-platform/datumaro: Delivered major feature growth, reliability improvements, and quality investments that enhance data processing, CVAT integration, and CI resilience. Highlights: expanded annotation capabilities (instance segmentation, rotated BBoxes, polygons/mask fields, mask callables, encoded images), automatic category inference, unified labels; improved code quality (typing, formatting, cleanup) and changelog maintenance; stability fixes in dependencies and test suite; Polars optional to reduce install footprint; removal of low-level features from the compare command; Version 1.12.0 release and re-enabling of the Codecov badge.

August 2025: Implemented experimental Dataset support and API enhancements, including a new experimental Dataset class, conversions to/from the experimental format, and __delitem__ for dataset manipulation; added categories to the experimental dataset class. Stability and compatibility improvements: fixed failing PyTorch tests, applied a Polars workaround, resolved Windows path handling, and strengthened Python 3.9 compatibility (TypeGuard and union type support). Documentation and metadata maintenance: updated copyrights and changelogs to reflect current year and changes; refreshed specs.json and packaging metadata. Codebase simplification and UX cleanup: removed generate, project, and related deprecated API/CLI surface areas to simplify usage and reduce maintenance burden; adjusted pre-commit configuration to avoid false positives during rst edits.

July 2025 open-edge-platform/datumaro monthly summary focused on delivering business value through deprecation strategy, platform readiness, and packaging/API quality improvements. Key changes include a broad deprecation and deprecation-notice rollout (NDR/DSA, SAM/model transform, SAM Docker image) with CLI deprecations fixed and changelog updates; platform/CI enhancements enabling MacOS publishing, ARM64 builds, and Python 3.12 compatibility; release governance for upcoming 1.11.x and 1.11.1 with updated release notes; packaging/metadata hardening (SPDX classifier, license attribute, PyPI permissions) and NumPy scalar handling fixes; and stability/compatibility work for TensorFlow 3.13 and Windows CI. These changes reduce risk, broaden deployable environments, and improve downstream developer and user experience.

June 2025: Datumaro achieved Python 3.12 compatibility improvements by optionalizing the pyemd dependency, reducing footprint and enabling builds without pyemd. Pyemd is now exposed as an optional extra in core requirements; imports adjusted and tests adapted to operate with or without the dependency. A key import fix was implemented to support the new optional structure, and covariate shift tests were made optional to boost test stability. Changelog updated to reflect dependency changes. Overall impact: smoother deployments, improved compatibility, and clearer packaging.

March 2025 (repo: open-edge-platform/geti-sdk): Deprecated Docker support and performed documentation cleanup to remove Dockerfile and Docker usage instructions. This reduces maintenance burden, prevents confusion in CI pipelines, and accelerates releases by focusing on non-Docker workflows. Commit b15729bda802e5cec2a5d5225d5932a4e818d977 ('Remove the Dockerfile' #568) captures the change. No additional features or bug fixes were shipped this month.

January 2025 (2025-01) monthly summary for open-edge-platform/datumaro. Delivered modernization of the CI/CD pipeline and QA improvements with cross-platform enhancements and clearer documentation, focusing on reliability, reproducibility, and business value.