Merge pull request #231637 from laujan/70324-custom-translator-announcement

publish announcement

Author: Stacyrch140

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/custom-translator/platform-upgrade.md

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+---
+title: "Platform upgrade - Custom Translator"
+titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
+description: Custom Translator v1.0 upgrade
+author: laujan
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: cognitive-services
+ms.subservice: translator-text
+ms.date: 03/30/2023
+ms.author: lajanuar
+ms.topic: reference
+---
+# Custom Translator platform upgrade
+
+> [!CAUTION]
+>
+> On June 02, 2023, Microsoft will retire the Custom Translator v1.0 model platform. Existing v1.0 models must migrate to the v2.0 platform for continued processing and support.
+
+Following measured and consistent high-quality results using models trained on the Custom Translator v2.0 platform, the v1.0 platform will be retired. Custom Translator v2.0 delivers significant improvements in many domains compared to both standard and Custom v1.0 platform translations. Migrate your v1.0 models to the v2.0 platform by June 02, 2023.
+
+## Custom Translator v1.0 upgrade timeline
+
+* **May 01, 2023** → Custom Translator v1.0 model publishing ends. There's no downtime during the v1.0 model migration. All model publishing and in-flight translation requests will continue without disruption until June 02, 2023.
+
+* **May 01, 2023 through June 02, 2023** → Customers voluntarily migrate to v2.0 models.
+
+* **June 08, 2023** → Remaining v1.0 published models migrate automatically and are published by the Custom Translator team.
+
+## Upgrade to v2.0
+
+* **Check to see if you have published v1.0 models**. After signing in to the Custom Translator portal, you'll see a message indicating that you have v1.0 models to upgrade. You can also check to see if a current workspace has v1.0 models by selecting **Workspace settings** and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
+
+* **Use the upgrade wizard**. Follow the steps listed in **Upgrade to the latest version** wizard. Depending on your training data size, it may take from a few hours to a full day to upgrade your models to the v2.0 platform.
+
+## Unpublished and opt-out published models
+
+* For unpublished models, save the model data (training, testing, dictionary) and delete the project.
+
+* For published models that you don't want to upgrade, save your model data (training, testing, dictionary), unpublish the model, and delete the project.
+
+## Next steps
+
+For more support, visit [Azure Cognitive Services support and help options](../../cognitive-services-support-options.md).

articles/cognitive-services/Translator/toc.yml

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     items:
     - name: Release notes
       href: custom-translator/release-notes.md
+    - name: Platform upgrade
+      href: custom-translator/platform-upgrade.md
   - name: Custom Translator FAQ
     href: custom-translator/faq.md
 - name: Resources