v1.19.0

New Features:

• Implement the async job framework (#1155, #1182)

  • Implement JobMixin._create_job (#1162)
  • Implement JobMixin._get_job (#1166)
  • Implement Job.update (#1174, #1184)
  • Implement JobMixin.delete_job (#1171)
  • Implement Job.retry and Job.abort (#1170)
  • Implement JobMixin._list_job (#1173)

• Implement SquashAndMerge feature by async job framework (#1134, #1179)

  • Implement SquashAndMerge.create_job (#1168)
  • Implement SquashAndMerge.delete_job (#1175)
  • Implement SquashAndMerge.get_job (#1176)
  • Implement SquashAndMerge.list_job (#1177, #1181)
  • Implement SquashAndMergeJob.result (#1178, #1183)

• Add the following open dataset loader:

  • CityscapesGTFine (#1160)
  • CityscapesGTCoarse (#1167)
  • RarePlanesReal (#1157)
  • RarePlanesSynthetic (#1158)
  • UrbanObjectDetection (#1172)

Improvements:

• Getting mask urls from OpenAPI getDataDetails to reduce the number of requests (#1114)

Documentation:

• Update the docs about "Squash And Merge" in "Features" (#1169, #1180)
• Refine the docs (#1152, #1159)
• Refine the docstring (#1130, #1154)