[inception-users] INCEpTION 0.18.3

[Richard Eckart de Castilho]

We are pleased to announce the release of INCEpTION 0.18.3.

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 bugfix release.


### Notable changes since INCEpTION 0.18.2

* 🦟 IMPORTANT: Fixed potential reset of annotations when there is asynchronous access to annotation files e.g. by recommenders
* 🦟 Fixed ability to merge multiple relations with the same target in the curation view
* 🦟 Fixed user selection in project settings when "hide users" option is active

If you discover problems with this release, please report them to us via our issue tracker [2].

Contributors to this release since 0.18.2: @reckart, @UWinch, @jcklie

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

An in-place upgrade from INCEpTION 0.18.2 to 0.18.3 for deployment is possible.

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 11** or higher.

By default, INCEpTION uses an embedded database which is sufficient for testing. However, the use of a MySQL database is recommended.

INCEpTION works best with Chrome and Safari.

-- The INCEpTION developer team

[1] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues?q=milestone%3A0.18.3
[2] https://github.com/inception-project/inception/issues
[3] https://inception-project.github.io/downloads/
[4] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.18.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_backup_your_data
[5] https://inception-project.github.io/publications/
[6] https://inception-project.github.io/releases/0.18.3/docs/admin-guide.html#_running_the_standalone_behind_httpd