## 🌟 Summary v0.0.4 turns the Ultralytics Rust template into a more **reliable, performance‑aware, and contributor‑friendly** project by standardizing tooling (MSRV, formatting), adding benchmark infrastructure, and improving crate discoverability. 🚀 --- ## 📊 Key Changes - 🦀 **Explicit Rust MSRV & Tooling (PR #9 – primary change)** - Added `.clippy.toml` with `msrv = "1.91"` to lock in the minimum supported Rust version. - Introduced `rustfmt.toml` with consistent, opinionated formatting (2024 edition, wrapped comments, normalized docs, grouped imports). - Updated `README.md` with an MSRV badge that links directly to `Cargo.toml`. - Bumped crate version from `0.0.3` ➜ `0.0.4`. - 🏎️ **Criterion.rs Benchmarking Support (PR #10)** - Added `criterion` as a dev dependency with HTML report support. - Registered a new `example_bench` target and implemented `benches/example_bench.rs` benchmarking the `add_numbers` function. - Created `benches/README.md` with clear instructions for running, viewing, and extending benchmarks. - Updated `.gitignore` to exclude `/target/criterion/` (benchmark output) and `.cargo-deny/`. - 🔍 **Improved Crate Metadata & Discoverability (PR #11)** - Updated `keywords` to emphasize `ultralytics`, `ml`, `ai`, and `yolo`. - Expanded `categories` to include `science` and `computer-vision` alongside `development-tools`. --- ## 🎯 Purpose & Impact - ✅ **Clear compatibility expectations** - The explicit MSRV (Rust 1.91) and badge make it easy for users and CI systems to know which Rust version is required, avoiding build surprises and version mismatches. - ✅ **Consistent, clean code for all contributors** - Project-wide `rustfmt` settings and Clippy MSRV alignment ensure everyone formats code the same way, reducing “style-only” diffs and speeding up reviews. - 📈 **Built-in performance benchmarking** - Criterion-based benchmarks let you measure how fast your code runs and how it changes over time, with HTML reports that are easy to explore. - The included `example_bench` and `benches/README.md` serve as a template so you can quickly add your own benchmarks. - 🤝 **Easier discovery in the Rust + AI ecosystem** - Improved keywords and categories help developers on crates.io quickly recognize this as an Ultralytics-style AI/ML and computer vision template, making it more likely to be found and adopted. - 🚀 **Stronger foundation for future AI/ML Rust projects** - With standard tooling, performance tracking, and clearer positioning, v0.0.4 is a more robust starting point for building production-grade Rust integrations in the Ultralytics ecosystem. ## What's Changed * Update Cargo.toml keywords and categories by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/11 * feat :🏎️ Add benchmarking support with Criterion.rs and example benchmarks by @onuralpszr in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/10 * Add MSRV badge to README and create rustfmt configuration file by @onuralpszr in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/9 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/compare/v0.0.3...v0.0.4

## 🌟 Summary v0.0.3 is a small but important housekeeping release that bumps the Rust template crate version, making it clear which iteration of the template is current and ready for use. 🚀 --- ## 📊 Key Changes - 🔢 **Version bump:** Updated the `ultralytics-template-rust` crate version in `Cargo.toml` from `0.0.2` → `0.0.3`. - 📦 **No functional changes:** All other package metadata (edition, license, description) and project structure remain the same. --- ## 🎯 Purpose & Impact - ✅ **Signals a new template iteration:** Clearly marks this as the latest published version of the Rust project template for users and downstream tooling. - 🧭 **Easier version tracking:** Helps developers distinguish projects based on v0.0.3 from those created with earlier template versions. - 🔄 **Aligned with release workflow:** Keeps crate metadata in sync with the repository’s release process and any surrounding automation (like CI, publishing, or Actions). ## What's Changed * Update Cargo.toml to v0.0.3 by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/8 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/compare/v0.0.2...v0.0.3

## What's Changed * Update template from Python to Rust by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/1 * Improve template by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/2 * Update ci.yml by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/3 * Improve publish.yml by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/4 * Update publish.yml with console logging by @glenn-jocher in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/5 ## New Contributors * @glenn-jocher made their first contribution in https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/pull/1 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/ultralytics/template-rust/commits/v0.0.1