We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 25.3.
INCEpTION is an extensible web-based collaborative environment for text annotation. It integrates machine-learning-basyed annotation support, knowledge base management and corpus building into a single comprehensive platform.
This is a bug fix and minor feature release.
What's Changed
- 🐛 #3462 - "Required" greyed out but NOT checked for integer features by @reckart in #3499
- 🐛 #3500 - Lazy details do not show anymore in brat editor by @reckart in #3501
- 🐛 #3502 - Combo-box and auto-complete field dropdown layout is broken by @reckart in #3503
- 🐛 #3492 - Deleting a layer feature doesn't always work by @jcklie in #3505
- 🐛 #3506 - No sessions should be created when remote API is accessed by @reckart in #3507
- ⭐️ #3494 - Display of label description when hovering over the label by @reckart in #3504
- 🩹 #3496 - Update dependencies by @reckart in #3498
Full Changelog: inception-25.2...inception-25.3
Also thanks to all issue reporters, beta testers, feature suggesters, and users!
Download
The new version can be downloaded from our website [3].
Important upgrade notes
⚠️ Instances that use external pre-authentication (i.e. that run behind an authenticating reverse proxy e.g. using Shibboleth) need to perform a manual maintenance action after as part of upgrade from versions before v25 [8].
Please check the upgrade notes [8]
An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 25.2 to 25.3 is possible.
Back up your data before the upgrade [4].
If you upgrade from a version older than 24.0, please check the release notes for INCEpTION 24.0 [7].
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 11 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%3A25.3
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/25.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/25.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/releases/inception-24.0
[8] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/25.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_inception_25_0