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new major release - breaks all existing versions
too extensive to document completely, but in a nutshell:
- we now have annotation functions which save image annotations (contours, drawings, data) to a dict (internally) and are saved as json
- GREATLY reduced boilerplate code allowing more flexibility when introducing new functions (for developers and contributors)
- better code annotation and more settings
- templates externalized
- all new docs!!
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