NEW Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit 2021.4.2 Long-Term Support (LTS) RELEASE

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Update to the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) release (recommended for developers taking solutions into production)

• 2021.4.2 Long-Term Support (LTS) Release provides bug fixes and minor capability changes for the previous 2021.4.1 LTS release, two years of support and maintenance ensuring application stability while reducing the risks and costs associated with more frequent version upgrades.
• Support for the 12th generation Intel® Core™ processor family that is built on the Intel 7 process with new performance hybrid architecture that delivers enhancements in multithreaded performance to handle compute-intensive workloads. More Information
• Specific fixes, capability improvements, and support updates to known issues with:
  • Model Optimizer - fixed issues causing accuracy regression
  • Inference Engine (plug-ins for Inference Engine Python* API, C API, GPU, Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ VPU, HDDL, and Intel® Gaussian & Neural Accelerator)
    • Support for 12th generation Intel® Core™ processor family which enables GNA3.0 and GNA Generation with native 2D convolutions
    • Functional Performance improvements to testing and accuracy, fixes to bugs that caused performance degradation for several models, fixed heap-use-after-free and memory leaks
  • Minor capability changes and bug fixes to the Open Model Zoo, specifically issues that affected Accuracy Checker in Deep Learning Workbench
• New Jupyter* Notebook tutorials to help simplify getting started:
  • Run an object detection and human pose estimation demo using your laptop and webcam
  • Optimize your Keras/TensorFlow or PyTorch models by 8-bit quantization with Neural Network Compression Framework
  • Learn how-to optimize, quantize a segmentation model and show live inference
  • Tutorials are now available in the documentation

RESOURCES

• LTS Release Notes
• Long-Term Support (LTS) Policy
• Get Started
• Tutorials
• Documentation
• Learning Resources