v1.8.5

What's Changed

• Keep ONNX inputs float32 when HF loads leak the torch default dtype by @hansent in #3316
• fix: handle non-ASCII base64 image payloads by @Mike-Medvedev in #3312
• docs: redirect Inference homepage to Run Inference docs and remove landing page by @Erol444 in #3325
• Keep Windows readiness banner compatible with redirected consoles by @iurisilvio in #3323
• Fix embedding_model@v1 crash in remote step execution by @iurisilvio in #3317
• Add the OpenAI Decisions block by @iurisilvio in #3266
• Preserve image batches in the CLIP adapter by @mikeedi in #3252
• Add reference examples to the Gemini v6 and OpenAI v7 detection prompts by @iurisilvio in #3297
• Fix parallel Redis transport and Torch preprocessing by @MTaraszewski in #3360
• Stop the usage collector's background threads in tests by @iurisilvio in #3395
• Count only proxy requests in tests that patch requests.post by @iurisilvio in #3393
• Reduce CPU allocations in Camera Focus v2 zebra overlays by @shntu in #3391
• ci(pypi): separate SDK publication from runtime releases by @MTaraszewski in #3378
• fix(api): retry transient OCR proxy responses by @MTaraszewski in #3397
• Fuse RF-DETR ONNX attention into MultiHeadAttention on CUDA by @leeclemnet in #3384
• Add Databricks SQL Image Source workflow block by @bar-jpg in #3322
• Restrict Databricks image reads and isolate bounded execution by @dkosowski87 in #3336
• test(inference-models): guard optional attention fusion dependencies by @MTaraszewski in #3403
• Share rendered reference examples across the engines of a process by @iurisilvio in #3363
• Fast track/post v1.8.4 pt3 by @grzegorz-roboflow in #3382
• Add opt-in concurrent request limit to legacy HTTP server by @grzegorz-roboflow in #3396
• Build the CPU and GPU image on Python 3.12 by @grzegorz-roboflow in #3301
• Notify the video preview worker when a CPU release image is published by @rafel-roboflow in #3354
• feat(aliases): resolve public RF-DETR semantic segmentation aliases by @leeclemnet in #3337
• fix(docker): restore OpenCV bindings for uv-managed Python 3.12 by @MTaraszewski in #3418
• fix(preload): redact credentials from model loading errors by @imbgar-roboflow in #3305
• Skip RF-DETR semantic integration tests on the legacy backend by @MTaraszewski in #3422
• ci(pypi): publish and verify dependencies before runtime releases by @MTaraszewski in #3379
• Release v1.8.5 by @grzegorz-roboflow in #3425
• Release 1.8.5 by @grzegorz-roboflow in #3431

New Contributors

• @Mike-Medvedev made their first contribution in #3312
• @mikeedi made their first contribution in #3252
• @bar-jpg made their first contribution in #3322

Full Changelog: v1.8.4...v1.8.5