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@InfantLab InfantLab released this 04 Mar 15:00
v1.4.2
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This release accompanies the submission of VideoAnnotator to the Journal of Open Source Software. A parallel submission is being made for the companion project Video Annotation Viewer.

Below is a summary of all changes across the v1.4.x release series (v1.4.0 -- v1.4.2).

Added (v1.4.0)

  • Flexible storage: New artifact download capabilities, including source video retrieval.
  • Database-backed authentication: Migrated from file-based to database-backed auth for improved security and scalability.
  • Artifacts API: New endpoint GET /api/v1/jobs/{id}/artifacts to download job results as a ZIP archive.
  • Container tooling: Baked hadolint into Docker images and devcontainer; added git-lfs to CPU/GPU Dockerfiles.

Changed

  • CLIP migration (v1.4.2): Migrated scene-classification pipeline from clip to open_clip, using the LAION-2B pretrained ViT-B-32 model for improved availability and reproducibility.
  • HuggingFace auth (v1.4.2): Updated diarization and Whisper pipelines to use the current token parameter instead of the deprecated use_auth_token.
  • JOSS manuscript (v1.4.1): Consolidated the paper into paper/paper.md and replaced docs/joss.md with a pointer to avoid divergence.
  • Repository hygiene (v1.4.1): Moved top-level helper scripts into organized subfolders under scripts/; updated imports to the videoannotator.* namespace.
  • Entrypoints (v1.4.1): api_server.py now acts as a compatibility wrapper; documentation recommends the videoannotator CLI.
  • README (v1.4.1): Rationalized setup/install instructions, fixed broken links, replaced hard-coded test/coverage claims with CI status badges.
  • Devcontainer (v1.4.2): Simplified forwarded-port list to the single default API port (18011).

Fixed

  • Artifact downloads (v1.4.0): Ensured source video files are included in the downloaded artifact ZIP.
  • Database GUID handling (v1.4.2): Added defensive error handling in the GUID type decorator for malformed UUID values.
  • Diarization init (v1.4.2): Wrapped model loading in explicit error handling with a clear log message on failure.
  • Docs (v1.4.1): Standardized examples on canonical API port 18011 and corrected Docker run port mappings.
  • Docs (v1.4.1): Replaced placeholder docs/usage/accessing_results.md with a real results retrieval guide.

Removed (v1.4.2)

  • Voice emotion baseline: Removed voice_emotion_baseline pipeline metadata and associated tests (superseded by LAION EmoNet voice pipeline).

Documentation (v1.4.2)

  • Added JOSS cover letter (paper/cover_letter.md).
  • Updated paper bibliography and CITATION.cff to v1.4.2.

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.2

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