7.4.0

Features

• Support preparing remote WebDatasets and media metadata with local temporary SQLite indexes before upload (#221)
• Replace custom Fastseek video seeking with PyAV/FFmpeg index based seeking and probe fallback, including AVI support (#214)
• Add permission handling for generated local metadata files during prepare / prepare-media (#216)
• Add all install extra and document CPU torch backend installation (#210)
• Add DSS URL support, including dss://..., filesystem+dss://..., and DSS auxiliary paths (#209, #213, #226)

Fixes

• Fix detailed sample printing by rendering nested samples as YAML with improved tensor/array summaries (#235)
• Fix load_dataset() with dict configs by calling post_initialize() (#245)
• Fix GC freeze handling for CUDA, Dynamo output graphs, and distributed work objects in workers (#237)
• Fix duplicate SkipSample export/catching by using the canonical error class and deprecating the wrapper alias (#223)
• Fix stale remote local-copy cache invalidation using remote modified timestamps (#221)
• Remove redundant SQLite sample-key index while preserving duplicate-key rollback/reporting in batched index writes (#224, #225)

Other

• Batch WebDataset indexing and SQLite writes for faster prepare_dataset() on large datasets (#225)
• Update dependencies, including multi-storage-client>=0.40.0 and av>=17.0.0; remove old Fastseek-only optional dependencies (#210, #214)
• Add no-extra install smoke test and CI workflow (#204)
• Update docs for remote prepare, DSS URLs, AV decoding, and remote filesystem auxiliary data (#246)
• Add Cursor unittest workflow/rules for local development (#225)

New Contributors

• @bbuschkaemper made their first contribution in #223

Full Changelog: 7.3.2...7.4.0