[ops] Improve efficiency of the box_area and box_iou functions by eliminating the intermediate to "xyxy" conversion (#8992)
[ops] Update box operations to support arbitrary batch dimensions (#9058)
[utils] Add control for the background color of label text boxes (#9204)
[transforms] Add support for uint8 image format to the GaussianNoise transform (#9169)
[transforms] Accelerate the resize transform on machines with AVX512 (#9190)
[transforms] Better error handling in RandomApply for empty list of transforms (#9130)
[documentation] New tutorial for KeyPoints transforms (#9209)
[documentation] Various documentation improvements (#9186, #9180, #9172)
[code quality] Various code quality improvements (#9193, #9161, #9201, #9218, #9160)
[transforms] Fix output of some geometric transforms for rotated boxes (#9181, #9175)
[transforms] Fix clamping for key points and add sanitization feature (#9236, #9235)
[datasets] Update download links to official repo for the Caltech-101 & 256 datasets (#9205)
[ops] Raise error in drop_block[2,3]d by enforcing odd-sized block sizes (#9157)
[io] Removed deprecated video_reader video decoding backend. (#9208)
š We're grateful for our community, which helps us improve Torchvision by submitting issues and PRs, and providing feedback and suggestions. The following persons have contributed patches for this release: @alperenunlu, @AndreiMoraru123, @atalman, @AntoineSimoulin, @5had3z, @dcasbol, @GdoongMathew, @hrsvrn, @JonasKlotz, @zklaus, @NicolasHug, @rdong8, @scotts, @get9, @diaz-esparza, @ZainRizvi, @Callidior, and @pytorch/xla-devs