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.
⚠️ This version now requires Java 21 or higher
(Applies to users deploying the INCEpTION JAR file on their personal devices or on servers. Does not apply to users running INCEpTION via Docker as the Docker image already includes a suitable Java Runtime.)
⚠️ Important upgrade note for administrators):
(Does not apply to users running INCEpTION via Docker and most users using INCEpTION on their personal devices.)
If you deployed INCEpTION as a systemd service, you need to make an update to your inception.service file:
[Unit]
Description=INCEpTION
[Service]
User=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/srv/inception
EnvironmentFile=/srv/inception/inception.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -jar /srv/inception/inception.jar
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
For more details, please refer to the upgrade notes.
What's Changed
- 🦟 #6030 - Annotation directly end-adjacent to protected element is wrongly expanded to include protected element by @reckart in #6031
- 🦟 #6032 - Scrolling to annotation no longer works by @reckart in #6033
- 🦟 #6038 - Managers cannot reopen finished annotation documents of other users on annotation page by @reckart in #6039
- 🦟 #6042 - Remove dialect setting from docker compose file by @reckart in #6043
- 🦟 #6046 - Removing additional language from knowledge base does not work by @reckart in #6047
- 🦟 #6048 - Potential error after closing a file during curation and then re-opening it by @reckart in #6049
- 🦟 #6052 - Queued tasks can race a running matching task during promotion by @reckart in #6053
- 🦟 #6054 - Annotation counts may be double the expected count by @reckart in #6055, #6059, #6063
- 🦟 #6056 - Opening project progress chart on fresh project generates error by @reckart in #6057
- ⚙️ #6050 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #6051
- ⭐️ #6064 - Show Lucene version of KB full-text index and offer one-click upgrade by @reckart in #6065, #6068
Full Changelog: inception-40.4...inception-40.5
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 40.4 to 40.5 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%3A40.5
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.5/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception