Roboflow Changelog: October 2021

Our emphasis this month was on "code tentacles," or improving the ways that Roboflow integrates with your codebase. Below is a recap of what we launched and improved. Rewind to last month's (September 2021) changelog for a recap of earlier releases.

Roboflow Organize

• Released our REST API (opens in a new tab) with the aim of eventually allowing you to perform any action you can currently do in Roboflow's web UI with code.
• Launched our PIP package (opens in a new tab) which makes it dead simple to use Roboflow's APIs in your Python scripts or Jupyter notebooks.
• Added a new streamlined pathway for custom notebook users.
• Improved the team invitation flow.

Roboflow Train and Deploy

• Added stats and health routes to the edge inference server (opens in a new tab).
• Updated Zero Shot Object Tracking (opens in a new tab) with YOLOv4 support (opens in a new tab).
• Backend work to support upcoming OCR and CLIP tie-ins.
• Prep work for a new deployment target launching soon.

Roboflow Universe (opens in a new tab)

• Launched on Product Hunt (opens in a new tab).
• Added backend tools to make it easier to find and highlight projects.
• Launched creator profile pages.
• Added serverside rendering for pretty share links.
• Featured 7 new projects (opens in a new tab).

Other

• Announced our Series-A fundraise.
• Partnered with Ultralytics on YOLOv5.
• Opened several new job listings (come help us democratize computer vision!)
• 18 bug fixes
• 13 blog posts
• 8 YouTube videos (opens in a new tab)
• Presentations: Streamlit logo detection webinar (opens in a new tab), OpenCV active learning webinar (opens in a new tab)
• Featured in/at: VentureBeat (opens in a new tab), Hackaday (opens in a new tab), Scott Belsky Newsletter (opens in a new tab), Axios (opens in a new tab), Craft (opens in a new tab), Clay and Milk (opens in a new tab), BBC.co.uk (opens in a new tab), Callin (opens in a new tab), OAK-D-Lite Kickstarter (opens in a new tab), TAI (opens in a new tab)
• User projects: water bottle fill level (opens in a new tab), self driving racecar (opens in a new tab), satellite component recognition (opens in a new tab), weed killing flamethrower robot (opens in a new tab), shellfish behavior monitoring (opens in a new tab), autonomous vehicle competition (opens in a new tab), smart fridge (opens in a new tab), robot identification (opens in a new tab), dog detection (opens in a new tab), blackjack strategy (opens in a new tab)