Release 2.2.0

What's New

• Flexible Retention Policy (Auto-deletion):
  • Users can automatically have node removed from VDMS
• Internal Database Retry:
  • Retry query before asserting and exiting database
• Allow User-defined Operators in VCL:
  • User can define a new operator in VCL and expose it in the VDMS API. Provided a sample custom operation
• Improve Descriptor Search:
  • Fixed descriptor bug (insert multiple descriptors)
  • Added the ability to search descriptors by query blob AND constraints
• JPEG Storage Quality:
  • Image differences due to lossy compression of JPEG. Added disclaimer to user to use lossless format (PNG) for inference applications (https://github.com/IntelLabs/vdms/wiki/AddImage#inference-image-format )
• Increase Buffer Size:
  • We increased the max buffer size for database transactions to 1GB and set a default size of 32MB (previous max)
• Removed Dockerfiles:
  • Only provide base Dockerfile