🎯 Purpose & Impact

• 🛡️ Crash-free experience on older iOS versions

  • By guarding experimentalMLE5EngineUsage behind an iOS 17+ check, apps no longer crash on iOS 16 and below due to unsupported Core ML configuration keys.
  • Impact: smoother rollouts across mixed iOS fleets without conditional code on your side.

• 📸 Better camera UX with explicit front/back selection

  • You can now control which camera starts by default:

    YOLOView(
      modelPath: 'assets/models/yolo11n.tflite',
      task: YOLOTask.detect,
      lensFacing: LensFacing.front, // 👈 start with selfie camera
    )
    

  • Impact:
    • Easier to build selfie, video-call, or front-camera–centric apps.
    • Behavior remains unchanged if you do nothing (still defaults to back camera).

• 🧩 More predictable model lifecycle & errors

  • YOLO.isInitialized and stricter loadModel() semantics give you precise control over when the model is actually ready.
  • predict() failing fast with ModelNotLoadedException makes issues easier to diagnose instead of chasing silent no-op behavior.
  • Impact: fewer runtime surprises, simpler debugging, and clearer integration flows.

• 🔄 Restored compatibility for default plugin usage

  • The channel naming fix ensures existing apps using the default YOLO instance (no custom instanceId, no useMultiInstance: true) work again without MissingPluginException.
  • Impact: safe upgrade path from v0.1.38+ for apps that previously broke on default channel changes.

• 🤝 Smoother collaboration & faster support

  • Issue templates guide users to provide complete, structured information, reducing back-and-forth.
  • Clear links to docs and community channels help users self-serve more effectively.
  • Impact: higher-quality bug reports and feature requests, and quicker resolutions.

• 🧰 More stable CI and tooling

  • Keeping workflows on supported actions (checkout v6) and pinning Python versions makes automated checks more reliable.
  • Impact: fewer CI-related interruptions and more consistent releases for the plugin.

Overall, v0.1.42 is a stability and ergonomics focused release: fewer crashes on iOS, safer model initialization, restored backward compatibility, and a more flexible camera API for real-world apps. 🌈

What's Changed

• chore: expose isInitialized by @asabri97 in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/392
• fix: missing plugin implementation by @asabri97 in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/378
• Issue templates by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/402
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 in /.github/workflows by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/407
• Param set camera direction by @asabri97 in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/406
• fix: update iOS version check for experimentalMLE5EngineUsage from 16 to 17 by @zhponng in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/408

New Contributors

• @zhponng made their first contribution in https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/pull/408

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolo-flutter-app/compare/v0.1.40...v0.1.42