In this release we focus on OS robustness and packaging, and minor runtime improvements. We fixed the DirectML acceleration on Windows. We fixed the PKGBUILD. We added a fast Kawase background blur in GPU.

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obs-backgroundremoval-0.5.18-linux-x86_64.deb: 0bbd29a6537b3e9959893fe21ea27da2a90393b07c85aa9d6dc8cc84aad6372f
obs-backgroundremoval-0.5.18-macos-universal.pkg: 2f2728b5b4e5383739ce69bb704889969afb5aab6f72dfc176584ac2743b4366
obs-backgroundremoval-0.5.18-windows-x64-Installer.exe: 1455b26b4c508c62da79df0c6f39bd7173e14288011b31b910e8b4368adc9378
obs-backgroundremoval-0.5.18-windows-x64.zip: e8ff39c4a9567fd5a93021ccdcc5cc2f9da158cb405f3c86525a6d648040a5f1

What's Changed

• Fix symbol not found Providers_GetHost by @umireon in #257
• Fix PKGBUILD by @umireon in #266
• Update DireclML to 1.10.1 by @umireon in #274
• Avoid using DML deprecated API by @umireon in #277
• Add Default settings to ORT sess by @royshil in #275
• Arch CI by @umireon in #278
• Use Kawase Blur by @umireon in #276
• Upload build artifacts by default by @umireon in #282
• Add the link to AUR by @umireon in #284
• Bump 0.5.18 by @umireon in #288
• Fix ccache by @umireon in #287
• Prebuild onnxruntime windows by @umireon in #286

Full Changelog: v0.5.17...v0.5.18

Arch users, the plugin is posted on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-backgroundremoval
Flatpak users, we are working on getting the recipe approved on flathub, here is the PR: flathub/flathub#4016