INCEpTION 27.0-rc-1

⚠️ This is a pre-release version. Use for testing only. ⚠️

The new version includes a bunch of exciting new features including but not limited to:

• the ability to resize span annotations with the mouse
• a much improved annotation overview sidebar on the left side of the annotation page
• ability to sort projects by date in the projects overview
• undo/redo for document metadata annotations
• a new "lookup" feature type to be configured on annotation layers which can provide
  auto-completion by querying an external service using HTTP
• support for SAML-based authentication

What's Changed

Projects

• ⭐️ #3511 - Add empty project template by @reckart in #3693
• ⭐️ #3783 - Ability to sort projects by created date by @reckart in #3828
• 🦟 #3474 - Tagset export dropdown disappears when selecting format by @reckart in #3620
• 🦟 #3729 - Project permissions for project-bound users of foreign project might be created by @reckart in #3730
• 🦟 #3836 - Keyboard shortcuts on dashboard should not trigger when editing project title by @reckart in #3837

Annotation

• ⭐️ #283 - Resize span by @reckart in #3663, #3678, #3692, #3720
• ⭐️ #3728 - Allow opening URL feature values in new browser window by @reckart in #3764
• ⭐️ #3817 - Support undo/redo for document metadata annotations by @reckart in #3819
• ⭐️ #3598 - Remote lookup feature by @reckart in #3599
• ⭐️ #3587 - Click on annotation sidebar text to jump by @reckart in #3694
• 🦟 #1535 - Keyboard shortcuts do not work when focus is in certain editors by @reckart in #3674
• 🦟 #3703 - Concept feature editor tooltips no longer work by @reckart in #3727
• 🦟 #3737 - Lazy detail lookup error if value is not in tagset by @reckart in #3738
• 🦟 #3742 - Feature editors do show multi value lists in locked documents for multilabel String features which looks bad by @reckart in #3744
• 🦟 #3752 - Section headers in annotation sidebar are above modal backdrop by @reckart in #3753
• 🦟 #3743 - Labels in feature editors look bold by @reckart in #3798

Annotation Sidebar on Annotation Page

• ⭐️ #3701 - Improve grouped-by-label visuals by @reckart in #3702
• ⭐️ #3747 - Tooltip with longer text on annotations truncated in sidebar by @reckart in #3748
• ⭐️ #3749 - Delete annotation from annotation sidebar by @reckart in #3754, #3761
• ⭐️ #3758 - Display suggestion score in annotation sidebar by @reckart in #3760, #3763
• ⭐️ #3734 - Better visual representation of suggestions in the annotation sidebar by @reckart in #3759, #3735
• ⭐️ #3762 - Ability to sort annotation sidebar by recommender scores by @reckart in #3770, #3835

Curation on Annotation Page (experimental)

• ⭐️ #3793 - Ability to trigger sidebar curation mode via URL parameter by @reckart in #3820
• 🦟 #3786 - Annotation sidebar does not show annotations from other users in curation mode by @reckart in #3791
• 🦟 #3788 - Jumping to a curation item via sidebar does not work by @reckart in #3789
• 🦟 #3795 - Document state toggle tooltip does not change depending on document state by @reckart in #3796
• 🦟 #3437 - Access to annotation page for curators by @reckart in #3808
• 🦟 #3716 - Workflow broken when curating to curation user using curation sidebar by @reckart in #3717

Curation on Curation Page

• 🦟 #3718 - Lazy values no longer work in lower part of curation page by @reckart in #3719
• 🦟 #3809 - Unable to curate documents marked as broken by annotators by @reckart in #3810

PDF editor

• ⭐️ #3745 - Highlight scrolling target after jump in PDF editor by @reckart in #3746

JavaScript Annotation Editor API

• ⚙️ #3658 - Move commonly used JS editor code to the JS API by @reckart in #3659
• ⭐️ #3660 - Option to disable span clipping by @reckart in #3661
• ⭐️ #3739 - Support comments in JS API by @reckart in #3740
• ⭐️ #3765 - Support for namespaces in SanitizingContentHandler by @reckart in #3766
• ⭐️ #3773 - Support loading resources from documents that are actually archives by @reckart in #3774, #3804

Recommenders

• ⚙️ #3750 - Cannot create zero-width recommendations by @reckart in #3751

For admins

• ⭐️ #3606 - Support for SAML2 IdPs by @reckart in #3607
• ⭐️ #3790 - Feature toggles for more sidebars by @reckart in #3794
• ⭐️ #3831 - Better support a direct-access workflow by @reckart in #3832
• ⭐️ #2677 - Make it possible to hide the editor preference menu in the editor by @reckart in #3834
• 📘 #3838 - Better upgrade documentation by @reckart in #3839
• ⚙️ #3602 - Enable Spring MVC CSP by @reckart in #3697, @reckart in #3604

Knowledge bases

• 🦟 #3712 - Cannot edit knowledge base by @reckart in #3713
• 🦟 #3822 - Order of matches found in knowledge base search is not correct by @reckart in #3824

Misc

• ⚙️ #3732 - Improve confirmation dialogs by @reckart in #3733
• 🩹 #3571 - Update dependencies by @reckart in #3580, #3672, #3685, #3711, #3829, #3830, #3833
• 🩹 #3616 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in #3621, #3637, #3778, #3803, #3812
• 🩹 #3826 - Update dependencies by @reckart in #3827

Removals

• 💀 #3625 - Remove DiamDebugEditor by @reckart in #3626
• 💀 #3627 - Remove LoggedEventFooter by @reckart in #3628
• 💀 #3668 - Disable tutorial for now by @reckart in #3669
• 💀 #3670 - Remove LIF support by @reckart in #3671

Full Changelog: inception-26.8...inception-27.0-rc-1