[inception-users] INCEpTION 41.3

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

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

• 🦟 #6172 - Documents can get stuck in curation with no finished annotations by @reckart in #6191
• 🦟 #6206 - Project export hangs and fails for documents whose initial CAS has not yet been created by @reckart in #6207
• 🦟 #6204 - Documents with a pre-CASMetadata initial CAS cannot be opened, checked, or repaired by @reckart in #6205
• 🦟 #6183 - Read-only annotation page may cause exceptions after change to the layer configuration by @reckart in #6190
• 🦟 #6182 - Additional x per full text index rebuild by @reckart in #6184
• 🦟 #6185 - Docker Compose commands in the administrator guide use the obsolete docker-compose spelling by @reckart in #6188
• 🦟 #6186 - Version placeholder revnumber shown instead of the actual version in guides and downloadable example scripts by @reckart in #6187
• ⚙️ #6194 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #6195
• ⚙️ #6198 - Startup warnings about Vector API and restricted Linker method when running the standalone JAR by @reckart in #6199

Full Changelog: inception-41.2...inception-41.3

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 41.2 to 41.3 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%3A41.3
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_behind_a_reverse_proxy_jar
[7] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/41.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_upgrade_notes
[8] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pkgs/container/inception