CVAT Digest, July 2025: CVAT Academy, SAM2 Tracking via AI Agents, and More

Summer is in full bloom, yet we haven’t slowed down. Here’s a quick roundup of our team’s July deliveries across CVAT Online, Enterprise, and Community platforms, and more.

CVAT Academy

After months of preparation, we’re excited to launch CVAT Academy!

CVAT Academy is a hands-on online course to help you and your team master key annotation tools and techniques in CVAT, from your first bounding box to advanced workflows.

We’ve published the first module on core CVAT annotation tools like bounding boxes, polygons, and AI tools. You can watch them on the CVAT Academy page or YouTube and leave your likes and comments. Your feedback is valued, and we’ve already made some tweaks based on user input.

The best part: after talking to our customers and soon-to-be annotators, we decided to make this course completely free! So, whether you want to improve your annotation skills or onboard new members faster, you can do it at no cost with CVAT Academy.

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New features (Releases 2.41 + 2.42)

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SAM2 Object Tracking via AI Agents (CVAT Online)

CVAT Online users can now automatically track shapes across video frames with SAM2 or any other tracking model, custom or pre-trained, using AI agents.

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Improved Navigation on Listing Pages (All Platforms)

On listing pages like Tasks, Jobs, Projects, and Models, users can choose how many items to display per page: 10, 20, 50, or 100, and quickly jump to a specific page by entering its number. These updates enhance browsing large datasets and make navigation more efficient.

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Quick Edit from List Views (All Platforms)

We’ve added a dynamic Edit option for Task, Job, and Project list pages. Users can now update key fields directly from the list view without opening each item:

• Assignee can be changed for tasks, jobs, and projects.
• State and Stage can be updated for jobs.

This simplifies routine updates and reduces extra clicks.

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Other changes and fixes (All Platforms)

• Enabled multi-threaded image downloading from cloud storage when preparing chunks, enhancing performance.
• Resolved COCO keypoints export issues with absent keypoints.
• Updated the organization Actions menu to match the style of other menus.
• Enabled shortcuts configuration in tag annotation mode.
• Ensured “Automatically go to the next frame” setting applies correctly when adding the first tag in the tag annotation workspace.
• Improved performance of GET /api/jobs/<id>/annotations and GET /api/tasks/<id>/annotations with many tracks containing mutable attributes.
• Enforced email verification when using Basic HTTP authentication, if ACCOUNT_EMAIL_VERIFICATION is set to mandatory, preventing unverified access.
• Updated Python runtime for the Segment Anything Nuclio function from 3.8 to 3.10 to ensure compatibility and support.
• API:
  • Deprecated legacy token authentication. Updated API token and session/CSRF token auth schemas for simplified and more secure access.
  • The PATCH and PUT endpoints at /api/tasks/<id>/annotations and /api/jobs/<id>/annotations now enforce that annotation IDs are present when updating and absent when creating. This improves consistency and prevents mismatched operations.
  • Updated API schema for session authentication.

To get into all the nitty-gritty details, visit our GitHub changelog.