Label Studio 1.17 Introduces a New Home Page and Deep Links

We’re announcing the 1.17.0 release of Label Studio! This release includes a new home page, deep links, personal access tokens for APIs along with a number of usability updates. In this blog post, we’ll outline the new features that are introduced. To learn more about bug fixes and security updates, read the full release notes on GitHub.

New Home Page

When you open Label Studio, you will find a new Home page. Here you can find links to your most recent projects, shortcuts to common actions, and links to frequently used resources.

Personal Access Tokens

There is a new type of token available for API access. The new tokens use JWT standards.

You can enable or disable these tokens from the Organization page. Once enabled, they will be available for users to generate from their Account & Settings page. Legacy tokens can still be used unless disabled from the organization level.

Deep Link Annotations and Regions

You can now link directly to specific annotations or regions within an annotation. These actions are available from the labeling interface in the overflow menus for the annotation and the region.

Usability Improvements

Scrollbar Navigation

You can now scroll forward and backward within audio files. This can be activated using the scrolling motion on a trackpad or a mouse.

New Settings

We have introduced two new settings for audio tasks:

• Auto-Play New Regions - Automatically play a region after it has been selected.
• Loop Regions - When playing a region, loop the audio.

New Templates

There are three new templates available from the template gallery:

• Natural Language Processing > Content Moderation
• Computer Vision > Medical Imaging Classification with Bounding Boxes
• Generative AI > LLM Response Grading

Community Contributions

Today's release was made better because of the contributions of Label Studio community members in addition to members of the HumanSignal team.

To everybody who submitted a PR, reported an issue, or started a discussion, we appreciate you!

We hope you enjoy these new features and updates. Happy labeling!