Dark Mode is Here in Label Studio 1.18

Release notes May 14, 2025

The 1.18.0 release of Label Studio is out now! This release includes the much anticipated Dark Mode setting and the new ability to export polygons in COCO format. There are also a bunch of usability improvements for annotators along with new features for the API, SDK, and CLI. You can read the full release notes with bug fixes and security updates on GitHub.

Dark Mode is here 🌘

Make Label Studio easier on your eyes with new Dark Mode! Toggle the settings to dark mode, light mode, or to match your system preferences. This feature is available in Beta now.

Export polygons created with BrushLabels to COCO format

You can now export polygons and rectangles created using the BrushLabels tag to COCO format. This allows you to use brush segmentation data in data pipelines that require COCO-formatted annotations.

Click & drag adjustments

Now annotators can click and drag to adjust video timeline segments or text regions.

Across the Label Studio application, you can now type to search and filter for values. You no longer need to scroll for days to find the right option in a list.

Rotate your personal access tokens

Hit the new JWT endpoint to refresh your personal access tokens and block previous ones. Reference the API docs.

NumPy 2.0 support in the Label Studio SDK

Label Studio does not yet support NumPy but if you’re using the SDK or integrating the SDK into your tools, you can now use NumPy up to the latest version.

Label Studio Converter CLI

If you’re using the Label Studio SDK and related CLI, the command `label-studio-converter`is now supported. You can run this to export your labels into formats like COCO, Pascal VOC, YOLO, CSV/TSV, CONLL, and so on.

Thank you to our community contributors

So many Label Studio community members contributed to this release, either by submitting issues, placing feature requests, or submitting PRs! We want to give a special shout out to the following folks:

Head over to GitHub and download the latest release 1.18.0 today!