💥 Editor Release Notes 13.03.2025

These release notes include editor related features released since the start of 2025.

Comments & Issues (BETA): Users can now add issues to annotation and review tasks to communicate with other users. Issues support comment threads that relate to the entire task or specific sections. A notification badge indicates unresolved issues, which can be filtered by Resolved and Unresolved. Issues can be attached to a task, a specific frame, or a precise location on the canvas. Additionally, rejection issues provide clear feedback when a reviewer rejects a task, ensuring better communication and annotation quality. This feature is in BETA. Contact the Encord team to try this feature.
Improved multi-tile review flow: Introducing read-only tiles (for example for prompts), and quick switching between focused tiles with a new hotkey.
Ontology descriptions: Add descriptions to elements in your Ontology so that they’re easily available as hints to annotators and reviewers.
Task Pre-Fetching: A new setting enables the Label Editor to pre-load the next image in the queue, significantly reducing wait times and ensuring a seamless workflow when moving between image tasks.

Complex Polygon Support: The Label Editor now supports complex polygons, improving annotation capabilities for intricate shapes such as polygons with holes in them.
Bulk Polygon Operations: Performance enhancements enable efficient handling of hundreds of polygons at once.
Polygon Subtraction & Merging: New tools allow for subtracting and merging polygons, improving shape manipulation capabilities.
Polylines with Arrows: Users can now add directional arrows to polylines, for cases where vector and direction are important.
Locking objects: In order to avoid accidentally adjusting existing objects, you can now lock them in place and make them unselectable on the canvas.
Layers and ordering upgrade: Layers are much more obvious with ordering in the left panel, and the ability to choose the exact object you want when clicking in an overlapping area.
Selection UX enhancements: When selecting objects you can see how many objects, and precisely which objects are selected using a count and a subtle enclosing box.
Square brush: Use brush tools in bitmask or polygon editing with a square brush.
Quick erase UX: Enable eraser quickly with an added hotkey within editing mode.

SAM on MPR Volumes: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) can now be used on MPR DICOM volumes, expanding AI-assisted annotation capabilities.
Improved Editor Performance for Large DICOM Volumes: Rendering optimizations ensure a smoother experience when working with large DICOM Datasets, particularly for sample perceptive data.
Scroll locking: We introduced a toggle to synchronise scrolling between series. Helpful for comparing treatment effects, or with reference studies.