From c5bd24c4713416ebc4dc5f07e34ea39ceca4da43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yunchu Lee <yunchu.lee@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:25:34 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes (#3754)

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                  | 11 ++++++++
 README.md                                     | 25 ++++---------------
 docs/source/guide/release_notes/index.rst     |  7 ++++++
 .../exportable_code/demo/requirements.txt     |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index faea611272a..d4b441be0f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## \[v1.6.3\]
+
+### Enhancements
+
+- Improve Vitens Kiemgetal OTX 1.6.x (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3671>)
+- Update dependencies (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3750>)
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- Fix rotated detection data pipeline (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3627>)
+
 ## \[v1.6.2\]
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a97f7e60436..7f49f9b276f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,26 +98,11 @@ You can find more details with examples in the [CLI command intro](https://openv
 
 ## Updates
 
-### v1.6.2 (2Q24)
-
-- Pin OTX version to requirements.txt file for the exportable package (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3555>)
-- Add augmentation details page to the docs (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3533>)
-
-### v1.6.1 (2Q24)
-
-- Replace the default model for rotated_det/ins_seg task from resnet50_maskrcnn to efficientnetb2b_maskrcnn (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3478>)
-- Update pymongo version to 4.6.3 for resolving CVE-2024-21506 (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3396>)
-- Use torchvision in MRCNN on CUDA (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3347>)
-- Update IPEX version in installation guide documentation (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3343>)
-- Update benchmark (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3338>)
-- Bump idan version to 3.7 (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3332>)
-- Support benchmark history summary (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3307>)
-- Pin pymongo version to 4.5.0 (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3316>)
-- Upgrade MAPI (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3304>)
-- Add NMS iou threshold configurable parameter (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3287>)
-- Remedy some medium/low severity bandit issues (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3208>)
-- Update documentations (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3280>)
-- Add perf benchmark test cases for action and visual prompting (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/training_extensions/pull/3292>)
+### v1.6.3 (3Q24)
+
+- Improve Vitens Kiemgetal OTX 1.6.x
+- Fix rotated detection data pipeline
+- Update dependencies to omit vulnerabilities
 
 ### Release History
 
diff --git a/docs/source/guide/release_notes/index.rst b/docs/source/guide/release_notes/index.rst
index d4517782e50..23e3cc07eb8 100644
--- a/docs/source/guide/release_notes/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guide/release_notes/index.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Releases
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+v1.6.3 (3Q24)
+-------------
+
+- Improve Vitens Kiemgetal OTX 1.6.x
+- Fix rotated detection data pipeline
+- Update dependencies to omit vulnerabilities
+
 v1.6.2 (2Q24)
 -------------
 
diff --git a/src/otx/api/usecases/exportable_code/demo/requirements.txt b/src/otx/api/usecases/exportable_code/demo/requirements.txt
index e07fefea5ff..d22fee8e308 100644
--- a/src/otx/api/usecases/exportable_code/demo/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/otx/api/usecases/exportable_code/demo/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 openvino==2023.3.0
 openvino-model-api==0.1.9.1
-otx==1.6.2
+otx==1.6.3rc0
 numpy>=1.21.0,<=1.23.5  # np.bool was removed in 1.24.0 which was used in openvino runtime