inception version history
11 releases tracked, newest first.
inception-41.1
Jul 7, 2026- Fixed error initializing assistant during startup
- Improved concept lookup in Virtuoso-backed knowledge bases
- Prevented tasks from running during application startup
- Fixed issues with remote KBs and short term searches
3 downloads
inception-41.0
Jun 23, 2026- Added keyboard-based annotation creation mode and relation support for HTML editor
- Improved document structure handling for HTML/TEI files and sidebar resizing
- Added macOS application bundle and Windows MSI installer options
- Enhanced recommender features with tagset descriptions and gazetteer validation
3 downloads
inception-40.6
Jun 9, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.6/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-41.0-beta-2
Pre-releaseMay 27, 2026## What's Changed
* #5930 - Provide tagset description to external recommender by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5931
* #5926 - Enforce certain XML/HTML elements to be atomically annotated by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5938
* #5940 - Add menu to admin settings by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5941
* #5947 - Fix additional cases in bidi rendering by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5948
* #5922 - Curation items may be shown on annotation page by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5951
* #5952 - Validate gazetteers during import by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5953
* #5956 - Show when DB document state differs from displayed document state by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5957
* #5958 - Allow downloading the log of a background task by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5959
* #5960 - Upgrade dependencies by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5961
* #5958 - Allow downloading the log of a
3 downloads
inception-40.5
May 26, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.5/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-41.0-beta-1
Pre-releaseMay 12, 2026## What's Changed
* #3411 - Resize sidebars using mouse by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/3414
* #5922 - Curation items may be shown on annotation page by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5951
* #5926 - Enforce certain XML/HTML elements to be atomically annotated by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5938
* #5926 - Enforce certain XML/HTML elements to be atomically annotated by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5971
* #5930 - Provide tagset description to external recommender by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5931
* #5940 - Add menu to admin settings by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5941
* #5947 - Fix additional cases in bidi rendering by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5948
* #5952 - Validate gazetteers during import by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5953
* #5956 - Show when DB document state differs from displayed document state by @reckart in https://github.com/inception-project/inception/pull/5957
* #5958 - Allow do
3 downloads
inception-40.4
May 12, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.4/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-40.3
Apr 28, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.3/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-40.2
Apr 14, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.2/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-40.1
Mar 31, 2026INCEpTION 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.1/docs/admin-gu
0 downloads
inception-40.0
Mar 17, 2026INCEpTION 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 feature and 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](https://inception-project.github.io/releases/40.0/d
0 downloads