NOTE: This release is a pre-Eclipse era release. All versions up to and including 42.x have been prepared before joining the Eclipse Foundation. The first Eclipse INCEpTION release is planned to be 43.0 in early January 2027
INCEpTION is an extensible web-based collaborative environment for text annotation. It integrates machine-learning-based annotation support, knowledge base management and corpus building into a single comprehensive platform.
This is a bug fix release.
What's Changed
- 🦟 Issue #6355 - "Merge all" on the split curation page saves annotations it reports as failed after a feature was added to the layer by @reckart in #6356
- 🦟 Issue #6360: Record third-party licenses of project template and notebook sample data by @reckart in #6361
- 🦟 Issue #6357 - "Merge all" confirmation reveals the annotator's name when anonymous curation is enabled by @reckart in #6358
- 🦟 Issue #6363: Import and re-export types as types in inception-js-api by @reckart in #6364
- 🦟 Issue #6367: Synchronized scrolling may jump or stall when the two HTML documents' sections differ by @reckart in #6368
- ⚙️ Issue #6365: Run TypeScript tests in a real browser in the Apache Annotator editor by @reckart in #6366
Full Changelog: inception-42.2...inception-42.3
Download
The new version can be downloaded from our website [3] or is available as docker images from GitHub [8].
Important upgrade notes
Please check the upgrade notes [7]. If you upgrade from an older version, check upgrade and release notes of intermediate releases as well.
An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 42.2 to 42.3 is possible. You can usually also perform an in-place upgrade from an older version, but you should make sure that each of the intermediate releases allow an in-place upgrade to the next higher release.
Back up your data before the upgrade [4].
Publication
An overview of INCEpTION can be found in
Klie, J.-C., Bugert, M., Boullosa, B., Eckart de Castilho, R. and Gurevych, I. (2018):
The INCEpTION Platform: Machine-Assisted and Knowledge-Oriented Interactive Annotation.
In Proceedings of System Demonstrations of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
PDF and BibTeX as well as more publications on specific features are available from our website [5].
License and System requirements
INCEpTION is provided as open source software under the Apache License version 2.
Running INCEpTION requires Java version 21 or higher.
By default, INCEpTION uses an embedded database which is sufficient for testing. However, the use of a MariaDB database is recommended.
INCEpTION works best with Chrome and Safari.
-- The INCEpTION developer team
[1] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues?q=milestone%3A42.3
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/42.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/42.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/42.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception