v5.11.3

• fix: force light mode (dark mode not supported yet) #1808

Full Changelog: v5.11.2...v5.11.3

v5.11.2

Fixes

• fix: stop setting and drawing mask for non-mask shapes (#1797)

Full Changelog: v5.11.1...v5.11.2

v5.11.1

Dependencies

• Bump osam to >=0.3.1 to support imgviz>=2.0.0 (100c2a2)

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Full Changelog: v5.11.0...v5.11.1

v5.11.0

Features

• Support square drawing for "Create Rectangle" (#1748) @kancheng
• Use style "Fusion" for consistent appearance across platforms (#1751)
• Introduce SAM3 (smart) model for text-to-rectangle (#1762)
• Support "polygon" and "mask" in AI text-to-annotation (#1774)
• Add "Preferences..." menu for config file editing (#1781)

SAM3 AI text-to-annotation

FocuSee.Project.2026-01-19.7-29-43.PM.mp4

Preferences...

Bug Fixes

• Clear selectedShapes to avoid crash on loading new image (#1717)
• Import onnxruntime before PyQt5 (#1723)
• Use canCloseShape for double-click finalization (#1724)
• Fix typo in variable name in shape.py (#1733) @minewilliam
• Handle empty input in nms_bboxes (#1761)
• Load OsamSession lazily for AI-assisted shapes (#1775)
• Handle Windows-style paths in LabelFile (#1784)
• Replace np.cross with manual 2D cross product (#1785)
• Reflect file_search in config at start time (#1788)

UI Improvements

• Show model selection in AI Prompt widget (#1752)
• Disable "AI Prompt" widget when not in rectangle create mode (#1753)
• Add info button to AI-assisted annotation widget (#1764)
• Add tooltip for AI Text-to-Annotation info button (#1766)
• Disable AI-Assisted Annotation widget when not in AI modes (#1767)
• Add newline for Japanese translation of menu items (#1768)
• Allow label editing when non-edit mode only from label list (#1769)

Internationalization

• Add Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) (#1727) @kancheng
• Add French (fr_FR) (#1730) @kancheng
• Add Japanese (ja_JP) (#1732)
• Add Hungarian (hu_HU) (#1734) @kancheng
• Add German (de_DE) (#1735) @kancheng
• Add Persian (fa_IR) (#1737) @kancheng
• Add Korean (ko_KR) (#1738) @kancheng
• Add Spanish (es_ES) (#1739) @kancheng
• Add Portuguese (pt_BR) (#1749) @kancheng
• Add Dutch (nl_NL) (#1750) @kancheng
• Add Italian (it_IT) (#1776) @kancheng
• Add Vietnamese (vi_VN) (#1779) @kancheng

Build

• Drop Python 3.9 support (#1746)
• Migrate to ty for type checking (replacing mypy) (#1720)
• Use hatch dynamic versioning (#1771)

Dependencies

• Bump filelock from 3.17.0 to 3.20.3 (#1747)
• Bump urllib3 from 2.3.0 to 2.6.3 (#1756)
• Bump requests from 2.32.3 to 2.32.4 (#1757)
• Bump protobuf from 5.29.3 to 5.29.5 (#1758)
• Bump fonttools from 4.56.0 to 4.60.2 (#1759)

Refactoring

• Add OsamSession class for osam model and embedding caching (#1754, #1760)
• Extract and rename AiAssistedAnnotationWidget (#1763, #1765)
• Use importlib.metadata to get version (#1770)
• Reorganize tests into e2e and unit tests (#1786)

CI

• Check version of pylupdate5 before generating .ts files (#1731)
• Add Discord notification for merged PRs (#1755)

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Contributors

Thanks to all contributors for this release! 🎉

• @kancheng
• @minewilliam

Full Changelog: v5.10.1...v5.11.0

v5.11.0a0

Prerelease for v5.11.0

uvx --python 3.13 --prerelease=allow --from labelme==5.11.0a0 labelme

v5.10.1

Full Changelog: v5.10.0...v5.10.1

Fixes

• 9fa85b5 - fix: use canCloseShape for double-click finalization
• 97e4b4b - fix: import onnxruntime before pyqt5
• dcd8e6e - fix(canvas): clear selectedShapes to avoid crash on loading new image

v5.10.0

What's Changed

Features

• feat(app): show canvas mode in status bar in #1682
• feat(app): show create-shape tools on left side bar in #1685
• feat(app): show image index in window title in #1692
• feat(canvas): allows dragging to move around the canvas by @juliusl in #1622
• feat(canvas): prioritize to select highlighted shape's vertex in Canvas in #1691
• feat(icons): refresh icons in #1701
• feat(zoom): zoom towards canvas center unless by mouse wheel in #1704

Fixes

• fix(app): disable editMode button onload because it's already EDIT mode in #1683
• fix(app): fix font size inconsistency in ToolBar on macOS in #1713
• fix(app): fix redundant mayContinue reusing fileSelectionChanged in #1693
• fix(app): handle high-dpi scaling issue on Qt applications in #1687
• fix(app): handle null image in paintCanvas in #1695
• fix(app): handle when file is closed and imageList is not None in #1700
• fix(app): show current index based on file list widget in #1708
• fix(app): stop focusing to ai-prompt after closing file in #1699
• fix(app): tweak epsilon for scaleFitWidth to better hide scrollbar in #1702
• fix(app): use ascii bullet in status messages to fix shifting in #1712
• fix(canvas): clear Canvas.shapes so that it won't be rendered after reset in #1690
• fix(canvas): stop caching sam by lru cache to reduce vram usage in #1715
• fix(zoom): center zoom on visible region center instead of canvas in #1705

Others

• chore(app): compact toolbar in #1684
• chore(tools): log lrelease version used & skip if lrelease is not 5.15.x in #1686
• refactor(app): refactor to use snake case and type-annotation in #1694
• refactor(app): refactor to use snake_case and type-annotation in #1697
• refactor(app): replace _adjust_scale with _set_zoom in #1703
• refactor(app): replace _noSelectionSlot with itemSelectionChanged.connect/disconnect in #1698
• refactor(app): use snake_case and type-annotate in #1696
• refactor(tests): use pathlib in labelme_tests in #1707
• test: isolate QSettings in test_app.py to prevent side effects in #1689

New Contributors

• @juliusl made their first contribution in #1622

Full Changelog: v5.9.1...v5.10.0

v5.9.1

What's Changed

Fixes

• fix(canvas): immediately affect cursor changes while avoiding flicking in #1681

Full Changelog: v5.9.0...v5.9.1

v5.9.0

What's Changed

Features

• feat: validate shape JSON objects in LabelFile in #1624
• feat: Allow spacebar for finalizing a shape by @akx in #1474
• feat: show drawing & editing status messages on status bar in #1673
• feat(canvas): show progress dialog when downloading AI model in #1677
• feat(app): add option to keep previous brightness/contrast settings in #1678
• feat(app): show download dialog for text-to-bbox model in #1679
• feat(app): add "About Labelme" menu and dialog in #1680

Fixes

• fix: Fix closure issue in brightness/contrast slider label update by @xiyaowong in #1613
• fix: don't fill linestrip internal area in #1628
• fix: fix missing fill-drawing in polygon mode in #1627
• fix: fix label list design inconsistency on Windows by using HtmlDelegate in #1646
• fix: fix cursor flickering on Windows in #1647
• fix: prevent overwriting items when dragging and dropping in label list in #1651
• fix: Fix brightness/contrast for PNG image in #1655
• fix: fix not-shown save automatically state by removing icon on Windows in #1657

Others

• chore: add startup log message for labelme version in #1615
• chore: include 16, 32, 48, 64, 128, and 256 pixel icons in icon.ico in #1619
• docs: link to new install-labelme-terminal doc (using uv) in #1623
• chore: Use standard types.SimpleNamespace instead of custom struct by @akx in #1480
• chore: Add .git-blame-ignore-revs by @akx in #1476
• ci: run lints/checks only once in #1629
• ci: fix indentation in ci.yml in #1630
• chore: remove flake8 noqa comments from init.py files in #1631
• chore: Clean up some type: ignore comments by @akx in #1626
• chore: upgrade ruff from 0.1.9 to 0.12.11; autofix by @akx in #1633
• chore: Apply and enable flynt check in #1634
• chore: Enable pyupgrade check in ruff in #1635
• ci: check translation files are up-to-date in #1636
• ci: use cache-apt-pkgs-action to speed up CI in #1637
• ci: ignore line numbers in translation file check in #1642
• refactor: make _get_default_config_and_create_labelmerc private in #1644
• chore: define default shape colors in Shape class in #1643
• build(dep): upgrade osam to 0.2.5 in #1645
• refactor: Simplify QPointF, Qt modifiers use in canvas.py in #1648
• chore: type annotate canvas functions to remove type: ignore in #1649
• chore: Remove mypy ignore for Shape._current_vertex_fill_color in #1661
• chore: Update language-updating by @akx in #1638
• chore: Clean up more "type: ignore" comments by @akx in #1632
• refactor: Move action collections out of actions namespace by @akx in #1662

New Contributors

• @xiyaowong made their first contribution in #1613
• @akx made their first contribution in #1480

Full Changelog: v5.8.3...v5.9.0

v5.8.3

Fixes

• Use shutil to load Docker by @emmanuel-ferdman in #1589
• Fix mypy error by inheriting from io.StringIO by @wkentaro in #1603
• Use QtCore.QPointF to represent points in Canvas by @wkentaro in #1606

Dependencies

• Bump osam to 0.2.4 by @wkentaro in #1604

New Contributors

• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in #1589

Full Changelog: v5.8.2...v5.8.3