**Highlights**
We are excited to announce the release of MMEditing 1.0.0rc2. This release supports 43+ models, 170+ configs and 169+ checkpoints in MMGeneration and MMEditing. We highlight the following new features
- patch-based and slider-based image and video comparison viewer.
- image colorization.
**New Features & Improvements**
- Support qualitative comparison tools. (1303)
- Support instance aware colorization. (1370)
- Support multi-metrics with different sample-model. (1171)
- Improve the implementation
- refactoring evaluation metrics. (1164)
- Save gt images in PGGAN's `forward`. (1332)
- Improve type and change default number of `preprocess_div2k_dataset.py`. (1380)
- Support pixel value clip in visualizer. (1365)
- Support SinGAN Dataset and SinGAN demo. (1363)
- Avoid cast int and float in GenDataPreprocessor. (1385)
- Improve the documentation
- Update a menu switcher. (1162)
- Fix TTSR's README. (1325)
**Bug Fixes**
- Fix PPL bug. (1172)
- Fix RDN number of channels. (1328)
- Fix types of exceptions in demos. (1372)
- Fix realesrgan ema. (1341)
- Improve the assertion to ensuer `GenerateFacialHeatmap` as `np.float32`. (1310)
- Fix sampling behavior of `unpaired_dataset.py` and urls in cyclegan's README. (1308)
- Fix vsr models in pytorch2onnx. (1300)
- Fix incorrect settings in configs. (1167,1200,1236,1293,1302,1304,1319,1331,1336,1349,1352,1353,1358,1364,1367,1384,1386,1391,1392,1393)
**New Contributors**
- gaoyang07 made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmagic/pull/1372
**Contributors**
A total of 7 developers contributed to this release.
Thanks LeoXing1996, Z-Fran, zengyh1900, plyfager, ryanxingql, ruoningYu, gaoyang07.