v0.0.18 - Update environment in publish.yml (#276)

🌟 Summary

The latest release, v0.0.18, primarily focuses on enhancing the GitHub Actions workflow for better release management and tracking, with updates to environment configurations and notification formats.

📊 Key Changes

• Environment Configuration: Introduces an environment parameter in the GitHub Actions workflow for improved documentation and tracking of releases through the GitHub Deployments tab.
• Slack Notification Enhancements: Tweaks to the format of Slack notifications to improve readability by switching quotation marks to backticks around repository variables.
• Configurable Git Commit Information: Adds new optional inputs for GitHub username and email, allowing user customization during commit operations.
• Exclusion of .lock Files: Updates the spell-check process to skip .lock files, which often contain immutable package information.
• Bump in Lycheeverse Version: Updates the lychee-action version, which helps in checking for broken links, to benefit from new features and fixes.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Enhanced Release Management: By specifying environments, developers can now track multiple versions more clearly, boosting clarity and organization within the release process. 📦
• Improved Communication: The tweaks in notification formatting make it easier for teams to understand automated messages, enhancing collaboration. 📬
• Customization and Flexibility: Allowing users to define their commit details encourages a more personalized and flexible workflow, suited to various team needs. 🔄
• Efficiency in Spell-checking: Ignoring .lock files in spell checks cuts down on false positives, streamlining the development process and allowing developers to focus on meaningful corrections. 🚀
• Robust Link Checking: Utilizing the latest version of the link checker ensures better detection and reporting of link issues, enhancing the overall robustness of the documentation and repository content. 🔗

What's Changed

• Update publish.yml by @glenn-jocher in #272
• Update action.yml by @glenn-jocher in #273
• Ignore lockfiles for spelling by @glenn-jocher in #274
• Bump lycheeverse/lychee-action from 1.10.0 to 2.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #275
• Update environment in publish.yml by @glenn-jocher in #276

Full Changelog: v0.0.17...v0.0.18

v0.0.17 - Prettier ignore npm and poetry lock files (#271)

🌟 Summary

The v0.0.17 release focuses on improving code formatting management, enhancing server efficiency, and ensuring compatibility with future Python versions.

📊 Key Changes

• Updated Prettier configuration to ignore 'lock' files during formatting.
• Introduced a new GitHub Action for disk space cleanup on servers.
• Simplified file naming for disk cleanup action for better clarity.
• Updated retry action with clearer input variable names.
• Added support for Python 3.13 compatibility.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Formatting Efficiency: By excluding lock files from Prettier formatting, this update prevents unnecessary formatting on configuration files, improving development workflow clarity. 🚫🔒
• Server Optimization: The disk space cleanup action helps free up server storage, enhancing build process efficiency and making more resources available for essential activities. 🚀
• Simplified Maintenance: Renaming actions and inputs to be more intuitive ensures the repository is developer-friendly and easy to navigate. 🧩
• Future-Ready: Adding support for Python 3.13 prepares the project for seamless transitions to newer Python versions, future-proofing the system. 🐍✨

These updates collectively aim to streamline development processes, enhance operational efficiency, and ensure long-term compatibility and clarity in the project.

What's Changed

• Disk Space Cleanup Action by @glenn-jocher in #267
• Rename Cleanup disk action by @glenn-jocher in #268
• Stop attempting to remove Android cache by @glenn-jocher in #269
• Update retry/action.yaml by @glenn-jocher in #270
• Prettier ignore npm and poetry lock files by @glenn-jocher in #271

Full Changelog: v0.0.16...v0.0.17

v0.0.16 - Fix duplicate PR summary (#266)

🌟 Summary

Version 0.0.16 brings improvements to the process of summarizing pull requests, ensuring more consistent and clear communication. 🚀

📊 Key Changes

• Updated the version from 0.0.15 to 0.0.16.
• Modified the summarize_pr.py script to prepend a constant SUMMARY_START to every PR summary.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Version Upgrade: The increment in version indicates enhancements have been made, signaling ongoing improvements and maintenance of the project. 🔧
• Enhanced PR Summaries: By standardizing the start of each summary, this change aims to improve the consistency and clarity of information, making it easier for users to understand updates. 📝
• User Benefits: Users will benefit from more uniform and easy-to-digest PR summaries, without any alteration to the core functionalities they rely on. This update primarily enhances the user experience in terms of information presentation. 📈

What's Changed

• Fix duplicate PR summary by @glenn-jocher in #266

Full Changelog: v0.0.15...v0.0.16

v0.0.15 - Print Ultralytics Actions version (#265)

🌟 Summary

The v0.0.15 release primarily updates the Ultralytics Actions to include version printing, enhancing transparency and traceability for users and developers.

📊 Key Changes

• Version Display: The release now includes functionality to print the current version of Ultralytics Actions whenever information is displayed. This is visible in the information header, making it easier to identify the version being used.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Improved Clarity: By displaying the version number, users can more easily verify which version is running, aiding in troubleshooting and development.
• Enhanced Communication: Maintainers and collaborators can quickly ensure they have the latest version installed and communicate more effectively when discussing issues or updates.

What's Changed

• Print Ultralytics Actions version by @glenn-jocher in #265

Full Changelog: v0.0.14...v0.0.15

v0.0.14 - Update summarize_pr.py (#264)

🌟 Summary

The v0.0.14 release enhances the GitHub Actions used in the Ultralytics repository, focusing on improving the management and updating of pull request (PR) summaries.

📊 Key Changes

• Version Bump: The software version is updated from 0.0.13 to 0.0.14. 📈
• PR Summary Header Introduction: A new header ## 🛠️ PR Summary is introduced to help auto-detect existing summaries.
• Logic Enhancement: Implemented new logic to either replace existing summaries or append new ones if no summary is found.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Improved Documentation Clarity: By standardizing the header for PR summaries, users can more easily identify and interact with these summaries. 🛠️
• Streamlined Workflow: The enhanced logic makes the PR management process more reliable, reducing human error and improving maintenance efficiency. 🔧
• User and Developer Experience: Enhances clarity and consistency in communication within the development process, making it easier for both users and contributors to follow updates. 🗂️

What's Changed

• Update summarize_pr.py by @glenn-jocher in #264

Full Changelog: v0.0.13...v0.0.14

v0.0.13 - Fix duplicate PR summary (#263)

🌟 Summary

Version 0.0.13 enhances the process for generating and updating pull request (PR) summaries, focusing on improving functionality, clarity, and reliability.

📊 Key Changes

• Incremented the version from 0.0.12 to 0.0.13.
• Introduced the time module to handle retries more effectively.
• Simplified the logic in the generate_pr_summary function to streamline its return process.
• Improved update_pr_description to better handle cases with no existing description, incorporating retry mechanisms and clear notifications.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 📚 Enhanced Clarity: The streamlined code makes it easier for developers to understand and maintain PR summaries, minimizing confusion.
• 🚀 Increased Reliability: Adding retry logic and alerts when updating PR descriptions ensures a smoother and more consistent update process, reducing errors.
• 🎯 Simplified Maintenance: The refactor allows for easier future modifications and debugging, aiding both new and seasoned developers in code management.

What's Changed

• Fix duplicate PR summary by @glenn-jocher in #263

Full Changelog: v0.0.12...v0.0.13

v0.0.12 - Simplify PR summary update (#262)

🌟 Summary

The v0.0.12 release primarily enhances the reliability of GitHub Actions with new retry mechanisms and updates the project version.

📊 Key Changes

• 🔄 Retry Mechanism Added: A retry feature is now available in the update_pr_description function to deal with potential None values when fetching PR descriptions.
• 📈 Version Increment: Updated the version from 0.0.11 to 0.0.12.
• 🚀 Step-Level Retry Action: Introduction of a GitHub Action to retry failed steps, configurable for both Python and Bash environments with options for timeout and delay settings.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• ✅ Enhanced Stability: The retry feature in PR description updating minimizes failures by handling transient issues, ensuring smoother workflows for developers.
• 🛠️ Improved Workflow Reliability: The new Step-Level Retry Action enhances task robustness by retrying failed steps, reducing interruptions due to external or temporary issues.
• 🔧 Customizability: Developers can tailor the retry settings, including attempts, timeouts, and delays, which offers flexibility to meet diverse project needs.
• 🌐 Environment Support: With cross-environment functionality, the retry action supports multiple coding environments, catering to individual developer preferences and project setups.

These updates collectively contribute to more dependably automated processes, ensuring that developers experience fewer disruptions and enhance their productivity with more reliable integrations.

What's Changed

• New Retry Action by @glenn-jocher in #261
• Simplify PR summary update by @glenn-jocher in #262

Full Changelog: v0.0.11...v0.0.12

v0.0.11 - Update common_utils.py (#260)

🌟 Summary

The latest release, v0.0.11, includes a minor update to enhance URL handling and avoids unnecessary automated header requests to certain websites.

📊 Key Changes

• Version Update: Bumped the software version to 0.0.11 for better tracking of changes.
• URL Ignore List Update: Added "reddit.com" to the list of URLs that bypass automated header requests.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Keeping Current: The version update signals new enhancements, providing users with the most recent features and fixes. 🆕
• Enhanced Reliability: By ignoring Reddit in automated requests, the software reduces the risk of encountering issues related to URL requests, ensuring smoother operation when users work with web links in their scripts. 🛠️

What's Changed

• Update common_utils.py by @glenn-jocher in #260

Full Changelog: v0.0.10...v0.0.11

v0.0.10 - Updated URL checks (#259)

🌟 Summary

Version 0.0.10 brings improved URL handling and recognition capabilities within the Ultralytics utilities, focusing on compatibility and functionality. 🌐

📊 Key Changes

• Version Update: Transition from v0.0.9 to v0.0.10.
• Enhanced URL Handling:
  • Improved recognition of Kaggle URLs to prevent automated headers.
  • Updated User-Agent string to a more universal browser identity.
• GitHub URL Exception: Adjusted URL validation to skip over GitHub links, similar to how private repositories are handled.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Enhanced Accuracy: By effectively recognizing and managing more types of URLs, the tools become more reliable, particularly with platforms like Kaggle.
• Improved Compatibility: With the updated User-Agent string, server interaction is less likely to be rejected, facilitating smoother workflows. ✅
• Streamlined Operations: Ignoring GitHub URLs reduces validation noise, thus enhancing efficiency for developers working with multiple repositories. 🚀

What's Changed

• Ignore github URLs in broken link checks by @glenn-jocher in #258
• Updated URL checks by @glenn-jocher in #259

Full Changelog: v0.0.9...v0.0.10

v0.0.9 - Update to v0.0.9 (#257)

🌟 Summary

Release v0.0.9 introduces important improvements in handling GitHub Actions environment variables for increased consistency and clarity.

📊 Key Changes

• Environment Variable Standardization: Replaced REPO_NAME with GITHUB_REPOSITORY across action scripts.
• Conditional Installation of Packages: Adjusted package installs to conditionally include codespell and tomli based on user input.
• Refactoring: Streamlined code to reduce redundancy, making it easier to manage.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Enhanced Consistency & Clarity: By aligning with standard GitHub environment variables, the code becomes more intuitive and easier for future developers to understand.
• Improved Maintainability: More streamlined code means it's easier and less error-prone to update and maintain.
• Unchanged Functionality for Users: There are no direct changes to how the features function for end users. However, developers will notice more consistent and simplified code, which could lead to fewer bugs and faster development cycles in the future.

Overall, this release focuses on refining the internal structure of the code to adhere to standards and simplify future development and maintenance tasks, leading to a more robust and scalable project. 🌟🛠️

What's Changed

• Simplify Actions by @glenn-jocher in #253
• Fix missing ultralytics-actions install for issues and discussions by @glenn-jocher in #254
• Update summarize_pr.py by @glenn-jocher in #256
• Update to v0.0.9 by @glenn-jocher in #257

Full Changelog: v0.0.8...v0.0.9