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PCDLabel EditorData ManagementCuration
  • Automatic Ground Detection: Encord can now automatically fit a mesh across the entire scene in one pass, following the natural curves and dips of real-world terrain. This also unlocks a set of smart, TPT-reducing features for 3D scenes, including 1-click cuboids, automatic cuboid tracking, and automatic detection and removal of static objects.
  • Data Explorer Split View: When exploring your data, the embeddings, analytics, and geolocation views now appear side by side with the grid view, so you can see which files belong to a given data cluster without switching between views.
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ProjectsData ManagementGeospatial
  • Project Overview: The default Project Overview tab now gives you more useful information at a glance. New users get guided setup steps to get a Project started faster, while experienced users get deeper insights into how the Project is progressing.
    • Insights: Workflow stage bar charts are replaced with a more detailed view with clickable nodes that take you straight to the queue, plus top created classes and top issue tags to help spot trends.
    • Task layout: Preview the task layout without opening the queue, and the customization option is now more prominent.
    • Setup guidance: The tab now flags when an Ontology or data is missing, lets you switch the linked Ontology if no labels exist yet, and makes it clearer that clicking a template creates a Project.
  • Project Data Management: We’ve made adding and managing data in Projects a more unified experience, available when creating a Project (Data tab), from the Project overview (Manage button on the Data card), or in the Workflow editor (start node). From there, you can search and preview folders and Datasets by thumbnail, add data at the granularity you need.
  • Geospatial Map Navigation: Exploring large geospatial datasets is now faster and easier. Clicking a cluster zooms into a tight bounding box around it, progressively narrowing until individual points resolve and can be opened directly in a preview modal. A new style picker lets you switch between Map, Satellite, and Terrain views without resetting your camera position or losing any rectangles you’ve drawn. The map also now opens in cursor mode by default (rather than draw mode), so you can pan and click straight away. Together, these let you drill from a cluster down to a single item with clicks alone, and cross-check context across map styles.
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Labeling
  • Add attributes in bulk: Set attributes on multiple selected objects at once in the Label Editor, instead of editing labels one by one.
  • Custom Layout Updates: Custom layouts now support objects natively, rendered as a table. You can also conditionally render form elements based on answers to other elements, enabling dynamic forms that adapt as users fill them in.
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Custom LayoutUser RolesData GroupsConsensus
  • Drag & drop for carousel Data Group: When working with a carousel Data Group, you can now drag items from the carousel strip directly into any mosaic tile pane, making it easy to arrange media across your multi-tile layout.
  • Peer annotation markers: In consensus Workflows, annotators can now mark sections of the timeline as valuable, pointing other annotators straight to the frames that matter and saving them from combing through the whole video. When enabled, peer annotators are also blocked from starting their subtask until the first annotator completes theirs, ensuring they can view the initial annotation before adding their own. Currently video-only.
  • Custom Layout improvements: We’ve made several improvements to the Custom Layout:
    • Edit classifications inline: You can now edit your classifications in the ontology directly from the Custom Layout page.
    • Improved drag & drop: Drag & drop is now more intuitive.
    • Easier item adding: Adding items is now much easier with a new popup menu.
    • Configurable editor deprecated: The old configurable editor is being fully deprecated. All Projects that previously used it have been migrated to the new Custom Layout.
  • New Viewer Role: We’ve introduced a new Viewer role for Projects, giving users read-only access to the queue, analytics, and editor, while still allowing them to create and comment on issues. Contact Encord support to enable this feature.
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Custom Agents
  • Custom Agent Pathways: Custom Agents can now have multiple decision pathways, allowing you to route tasks based on the agent’s response. This enables more complex workflows and decision-making processes within your Project’s Workflow.
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Annotation Instructions
  • Video annotation instructions: Annotation instructions now support video files, allowing you to provide detailed visual guidance to annotators. Video instructions can be viewed directly in the Label Editor during annotation.
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Audio
  • Audio editor improvements:
    • Multi-select and bulk actions: Select multiple segments and perform bulk actions in the audio editor.
    • Improved hotkeys, snapping, and undo/redo: Faster keyboard shortcuts, snapping controls, and more reliable undo/redo functionality.
    • Inline transcripts: Ranges now display real speaker names instead of generic Speaker (1) labels.
    • Spectrogram view: A new spectrogram view is available for finer-grained audio annotation.
    • Dynamic transcripts: Audio regions can now be added using the timeline by dragging, then adjusted or deleted as needed.
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Projects
  • New Project creation flow: Streamlined Project creation with a step-by-step wizard and more than 10 ready-to-use templates for common tasks. This simplifies the process of setting up new Projects and provides a preview of the editor layout and ontology before you start.
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Label Editor
  • Custom Layouts: Design your own annotation editor layouts with drag-and-drop functionality. Arrange media players, classification fields, and input controls exactly how your annotators need them through an intuitive visual interface with no code required.
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LabelsExport
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ProjectsData Management
  • We’ve redesigned the Encord platform around two clear concepts: Data and Projects. Data is where you manage, curate and explore all your data across all your folders and Datasets in one place. Projects is where your annotation and eval workflows live.
    • Data: Manage and explore all your data in one place
    • Projects: Label exploration (formerly Active) is now in one place with annotation workflows, accessible on the Project page under Explorer
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IndexData Management
  • Add data from Index to Projects directly: Users can now select data within Index and add it directly to a Dataset or Project. This streamlines Dataset and Project creation and dramatically improves performance when adding millions of items.
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Analytics
  • Consensus Agreement Tables: You can now track annotator agreement and reviewer alignment directly in the Analytics for Review and Refine Consensus Projects.
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Data Management
  • Continuous data flow: Connect a cloud storage folder directly to your Project and keep it automatically in sync. New files are added as they arrive. Filters can be used to control exactly which files land in your Project.
  • Issues filtering: Reviewers can now filter Issues by object class and comment keyword, making it significantly easier to triage and action feedback on tasks with large volumes of detailed issue threads.
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Consensus ReviewEditor Settings
  • Hide annotator usernames in Consensus Review: Admins can now toggle a Project setting to hide annotator usernames during consensus review tasks, making it impossible to identify who created each label or correspond labels to the same annotator within a task thereby preventing reviewer bias.
  • Scrollable data group grids: Large Data Groups no longer force tiles to shrink to an unusable size. Use the new Data group scrollable tile threshold Editor setting to activate scrolling automatically. Grids below the threshold stay fixed, while larger ones become scrollable with a persistent scrollbar. Also enables scrolling within individual tiles, such as long text files.
  • Hide all approved labels: Reviewers can now instantly hide all approved labels with a single toggle, making it easier to focus on pending work without distraction.
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Data Management
  • Auto Data Groups: Now generally available to all customers. Simply select a source folder and Encord analyzes the files, suggest grouping rules, and automatically creates Data Groups without requiring SDK scripts or manual intervention.
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WorkflowsAgentsWebhooks
  • Agents in Workflows: Agents from the Agents Catalog can now be added as nodes in your Workflows and run directly from the Project Queue. Previously, agents could only be triggered manually from the Editor or required extensive custom setup.
  • Webhook Signature Verification: Every webhook request from Encord now includes signature headers so you can verify that requests genuinely originated from Encord and have not been tampered with. Verification is optional but recommended for production integrations.
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Label EditorMetadata

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Metadata Panel for Taskers

  • View Metadata: Users can view task metadata directly within the Label Editor using a new metadata panel. You can now:
    • Toggle the panel on or off using the new button
    • Copy data directly from the panel
    • Click URLs to open them in a new tab
    • Panel content updates automatically based on the active tile in a Data Group
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IndexCuration
  • Labels in Index (General Release): Now available to all Index customers, enabling label-based exploration and filtering across entire Datasets. View and compare ground truth labels and model predictions with visual previews of bounding boxes, polygons, and other label types.
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Consensus
  • Improved review UX for consensus classifications:
    • Easier label selection; clear visibility of annotator agreements
    • Toggle between “By annotator” and “By label” modes
    • Expand/collapse functionality for efficient classification review.
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Data Groups
  • Data Groups (General Release): You can now create, manage, and label multiple files as a single task with Encord’s Data Groups. This release introduces instant interactions across tiles, cross-tile instances for consistent object labeling, global classifications, and flexible tile management. Data Groups is a powerful and intuitive way to build complex labeling tasks with different types of media.
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AgentsAutomated Labeling
  • Agents Catalog: You can now browse, configure, and deploy pre-built agents directly in Encord with zero code required. The Agents Catalog makes automation accessible with no engineering resources, self-hosted services or custom API integrations needed. Custom agents remain fully supported alongside the new catalog.
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SAM 3
  • SAM 3 (General Release): SAM 3 has now graduated from early access and is available to all customers with SAM access.
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SAM 3
  • SAM 3 (Early Access): You can now detect and label all similar objects based on an existing label. This works for unusual or highly specific items that SAM 3 may not recognize by name. Detected objects are first created in a preview state and are only recorded as label creation events when you confirm, keeping analytics clean if you start over or discard the results.
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Data Management
  • Auto-Refresh Cloud Sync Folders: Cloud-synced folders now refresh automatically once per day, so new files in connected S3 and GCS buckets appear in Encord without manual refreshes or custom automation.