[SDK Release] (Python) CQA inference 2025-05-15-preview

.vscode/cspell.json

@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@
     },
     {
       "filename": "sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/**",
-      "words": [ "qnas", "qnamaker", "ADTO" ],
+      "words": [ "qnas", "qnamaker", "ADTO", "tfidf", "ngram" ],
       "caseSensitive": false
     },
     {

sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Release History
 
+## 2.0.0b1 (Unreleased)
+
+### Breaking Changes
+* Authoring functionality (project creation, knowledge source management, deployment operations) has been removed from this package and moved to a separate dedicated authoring package / namespace. All references to `AuthoringClient`, `QuestionAnsweringProjectsClient`, and related authoring operations have been eliminated from the runtime client distribution.
+* Dropped support for Python versions earlier than 3.9 (aligns with Azure SDK Python support policy going forward).
+
+### Features Added
+* Documentation improvements: expanded README with authentication guidance, AAD usage, async examples, and troubleshooting section.
+
+### Other Changes
+* Internal refactoring and dependency grooming in preparation for the authoring/runtime split.
+* Changed samples and README examples to use explicit `AnswersOptions` / `AnswersFromTextOptions` objects as the first argument when calling `get_answers` and `get_answers_from_text`.
+
 ## 1.1.1 (Unreleased)
 
 ### Features Added
@@ -102,4 +115,4 @@
 ## 1.0.0b1 (2021-07-27)
 
 ### Features Added
-* Initial release - supports querying from text records and knowledge bases.
+* Initial release - supports querying from text records and knowledge bases.

sdk/cognitivelanguage/azure-ai-language-questionanswering/MANIFEST.in

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 include *.md
 include LICENSE
+include azure/ai/language/questionanswering/py.typed
+recursive-include tests *.py
+recursive-include samples *.py *.md
 include azure/__init__.py
 include azure/ai/__init__.py
 include azure/ai/language/__init__.py
-recursive-include tests *.py
-recursive-include samples *.py *.md
-include azure/ai/language/questionanswering/py.typed