💥 We'd love to hear more about your experience with spaCy! Take our survey here. ✨ New features and improvements NEW: spancat_singlelabel pipeline component for multi-class and non-overlapping span classification. The spancat_singlelabel component predicts at most one label for each suggested span and adds a new setting allow_overlap to restrict the output to non-overlapping spans (#11365). Extend to mypy v1.0 (#12245). Use transformer + CNN for efficient GPU textcat with spacy init config (#11900). Support trainable lemmatizer in spacy debug data (#11419). Add new operators to dependency matcher for left/right immediate child/parent nodes (>+, >-, <+, <-) (#12334). Add spacy.PlainTextCorpusReader.v1 for plain text input (#12122). Add alignment_mode and span_id to Span.char_span() (#12145, #12196). Use string formatting types in logging calls (#12215). 🔴 Bug fixes #12017: Improve speed for top_k>1 in trainable lemmatizer. #12048: Make test_cli_find_threshold() test more robust. #12227: Fix return type of registry.find(). #12272: Fix speed regression for Matcher patterns with extension attributes. #12287: Add grc to languages with lexeme norms in spacy-lookups-data. #12320: Make generation of empty KnowledgeBase instances configurable. #12343: Fix error message for displacy auto_select_port. #12347: Fix length check for knowledge base in entity linker, add InMemoryLookupKB.is_empty. #12365: Fix types for Lexeme.orth and Lexeme.lower. #12366: Raise error for non-default vectors with PretrainVectors. #12368: Partially address pending deprecation of pkg_resources. Various improvements and fixes for the test suite (#12148, #12157, #12210, #12303, #12372). 📖 Documentation and examples Many website updates to improve accessibility. Various documentation corrections and updates. New projects: Span labeling datasets Comparing embedding layers in spaCy from the technical report Multi hash embeddings in spaCy 👥 Contributors @adrianeboyd, @andyjessen, @danieldk, @essenmitsosse, @honnibal, @ines, @itssimon, @kadarakos, @kwhumphreys, @ljvmiranda921, @pmbaumgartner, @polm, @richardpaulhudson, @rmitsch, @shadeMe, @svlandeg, @tanloong, @thomashacker, @victorialslocum