Releases

v0.3.0

Release date: 2026-03-15

This release covers the work shipped after v0.2.0. It turns the Gradio app into the main product surface for the repository and expands the MatAnyone export workflow into a more complete desktop-friendly UI.

Highlights

• Added a Gradio 6 WebUI that combines direct rembg export helpers with interactive MatAnyone video and image workflows.
• Added the main MatAnyone2 video flow with animated webp / gif export, preview cards, download buttons, and better status feedback.
• Added MP4 -> WebP/GIF for direct animated conversion without background removal.
• Added MatAnyone2 Tile for 2x2 and 3x3 tiled videos, including tile splitting after matting and per-tile animated webp / gif outputs.
• Added resume helpers for Tile workflows so previously generated foreground and alpha videos can be reused from dedicated Tile output folders.
• Added English and Japanese UI switching across the Gradio app.

Tooling and Delivery

• Refactored shared background-removal logic into reusable modules for the CLI and WebUI.
• Added MatAnyone runtime bridge helpers and package entry points so the WebUI can launch through the managed Python environment.
• Improved Windows launch stability and Gradio startup handling for the interactive app.
• Kept release version metadata synchronized in pyproject.toml and package fallback version code.

Docs and Assets

• Expanded the README and the VitePress guides for the new WebUI workflows.
• Added concrete Tile workflow screenshots and sample webp / gif assets to the documentation.
• Added this release summary page so GitHub releases can point to a docs-backed explanation of what shipped.

Validation

The following checks were run for this release:

• uv run --extra webui python -m unittest tests.test_webui
• uv run python -m unittest discover -s tests
• uv run --extra dev python -m build
• npm run docs:build

Related Links

• GitHub release for v0.3.0
• CHANGELOG.md
• Article: The Gradio WebUI became the main workflow