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+---
+title: Previous language service updates
+titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
+description: An archive of previous Azure Cognitive Service for Language updates.
+services: cognitive-services
+author: aahill
+manager: nitinme
+ms.service: cognitive-services
+ms.subservice: language-service
+ms.topic: conceptual
+ms.date: 06/23/2022
+ms.author: aahi
+ROBOTS: NOINDEX
+---
+
+# Previous updates for Azure Cognitive Service for Language
+
+This article contains a list of previously recorded updates for Azure Cognitive Service for Language. For more current service updates, see [What's new](../whats-new.md).
+
+## October 2021
+
+* Quality improvements for the extractive summarization feature in model-version `2021-08-01`.
+
+## September 2021
+
+* Starting with version `3.0.017010001-onprem-amd64` The text analytics for health container can now be called using the client library.
+
+## July 2021
+
+* General availability for text analytics for health containers and API.
+* General availability for opinion mining.
+* General availability for PII extraction and redaction.
+* General availability for asynchronous operation.
+
+## June 2021
+
+### General API updates
+
+* New model-version `2021-06-01` for key phrase extraction based on transformers. It provides:
+  * Support for 10 languages (Latin and CJK). 
+  * Improved key phrase extraction.
+* The `2021-06-01` model version for Named Entity Recognition (NER) which provides 
+  * Improved AI quality and expanded language support for the *Skill* entity category. 
+  * Added Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese language support for the *Skill* entity category
+
+### Text Analytics for health updates
+
+* A new model version `2021-05-15` for the `/health` endpoint and on-premise container which provides
+    * 5 new entity types: `ALLERGEN`, `CONDITION_SCALE`, `COURSE`, `EXPRESSION` and `MUTATION_TYPE`,
+    * 14 new relation types,
+    * Assertion detection expanded for new entity types and
+    * Linking support for `ALLERGEN` entity type
+* A new image for the Text Analytics for health container with tag `3.0.016230002-onprem-amd64` and model version `2021-05-15`. This container is available for download from Microsoft Container Registry.
+ 
+## May 2021
+
+* Custom question answering (previously QnA maker) can now be accessed using a Text Analytics resource. 
+* Preview API release, including: 
+  * Asynchronous API now supports sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
+  * A new query parameter, `LoggingOptOut`, is now available for customers who wish to opt out of logging input text for incident reports.
+* Text analytics for health and asynchronous operations are now available in all regions.
+
+## March 2021
+
+* Changes in the opinion mining JSON response body: 
+    * `aspects` is now `targets` and `opinions` is now `assessments`. 
+* Changes in the JSON response body of the hosted web API of text analytics for health: 
+    * The `isNegated` boolean name of a detected entity object for negation is deprecated and replaced by assertion detection.
+    * A new property called `role` is now part of the extracted relation between an attribute and an entity as well as the relation between entities.  This adds specificity to the detected relation type.
+* Entity linking is now available as an asynchronous task.
+* A new `pii-categories` parameter for the PII feature.
+    * This parameter lets you specify select PII entities, as well as those not supported by default for the input language.
+* Updated client libraries, which include asynchronous and text analytics for health operations.
+
+* A new model version `2021-03-01` for text analytics for health API and on-premise container which provides:
+    * A rename of the `Gene` entity type to `GeneOrProtein`.
+    * A new `Date` entity type.
+    * Assertion detection which replaces negation detection.
+    * A new preferred `name` property for linked entities that is normalized from various ontologies and coding systems. 
+* A new text analytics for health container image with tag `3.0.015490002-onprem-amd64` and the new model-version `2021-03-01` has been released to the container preview repository. 
+    * This container image will no longer be available for download from `containerpreview.azurecr.io` after April 26th, 2021.
+* **Processed Text Records** is now available as a metric in the **Monitoring** section for your text analytics resource in the Azure portal.  
+
+## February 2021
+
+* The `2021-01-15` model version for the PII feature, which provides:
+  * Expanded support for 9 new languages
+  * Improved AI quality
+* The S0 through S4 pricing tiers are being retired on March 8th, 2021.
+* The language detection container is now generally available.
+
+## January 2021
+
+* The `2021-01-15` model version for Named Entity Recognition (NER), which provides 
+  * Expanded language support. 
+  * Improved AI quality of general entity categories for all supported languages. 
+* The `2021-01-05` model version for language detection, which provides additional language support.
+
+## November 2020
+
+* Portuguese (Brazil) `pt-BR` is now supported in sentiment analysis, starting with model version `2020-04-01`. It adds to the existing `pt-PT` support for Portuguese.
+* Updated client libraries, which include asynchronous and text analytics for health operations.
+
+## October 2020
+
+* Hindi support for sentiment analysis, starting with model version `2020-04-01`. 
+* Model version `2020-09-01` for language detection, which adds additional language support and accuracy improvements.
+
+## September 2020
+
+* PII now includes the new `redactedText` property in the response JSON where detected PII entities in the input text are replaced by an `*` for each character of those entities.
+* Entity linking endpoint now includes the `bingID` property in the response JSON for linked entities.
+* The following updates are specific to the September release of the text analytics for health container only.
+    * A new container image with tag `1.1.013530001-amd64-preview` with the new model-version `2020-09-03` has been released to the container preview repository. 
+    * This model version provides improvements in entity recognition, abbreviation detection, and latency enhancements.
+
+## August 2020
+
+* Model version `2020-07-01` for key phrase extraction, PII detection, and language detection. This update adds:
+    * Additional government and country specific entity categories for Named Entity Recognition.
+    * Norwegian and Turkish support in Sentiment Analysis.
+* An HTTP 400 error will now be returned for API requests that exceed the published data limits. 
+* Endpoints that return an offset now support the optional `stringIndexType` parameter, which adjusts the returned `offset` and `length` values to match a supported string index scheme.
+
+The following updates are specific to the August release of the Text Analytics for health container only.
+
+* New model-version for Text Analytics for health: `2020-07-24`
+    
+The following properties in the JSON response have changed:
+
+* `type` has been renamed to `category` 
+* `score` has been renamed to `confidenceScore`
+* Entities in the `category` field of the JSON output are now in pascal case. The following entities have been renamed:
+    * `EXAMINATION_RELATION` has been renamed to `RelationalOperator`.
+    * `EXAMINATION_UNIT` has been renamed to `MeasurementUnit`.
+    * `EXAMINATION_VALUE` has been renamed to `MeasurementValue`.
+    * `ROUTE_OR_MODE` has been renamed `MedicationRoute`.
+    * The relational entity `ROUTE_OR_MODE_OF_MEDICATION` has been renamed to `RouteOfMedication`.
+
+The following entities have been added:
+
+* Named Entity Recognition
+    * `AdministrativeEvent`
+    * `CareEnvironment`
+    * `HealthcareProfession`
+    * `MedicationForm` 
+
+* Relation extraction
+    * `DirectionOfCondition`
+    * `DirectionOfExamination`
+    * `DirectionOfTreatment`
+    
+## May 2020
+
+* Model version `2020-04-01`:
+    * Updated language support for sentiment analysis
+    * New "Address" entity category in Named Entity Recognition (NER)
+    * New subcategories in NER:
+       * Location - Geographical
+       * Location - Structural
+       * Organization - Stock Exchange
+       * Organization - Medical
+       * Organization - Sports
+       * Event - Cultural
+       * Event - Natural
+       * Event - Sports
+
+* The following properties in the JSON response have been added:
+   * `SentenceText` in sentiment analysis
+   * `Warnings` for each document 
+
+* The names of the following properties in the JSON response have been changed, where applicable:
+
+* `score` has been renamed to `confidenceScore`
+    * `confidenceScore` has two decimal points of precision. 
+* `type` has been renamed to `category`
+* `subtype` has been renamed to `subcategory`
+
+* New sentiment analysis feature - opinion mining
+* New personal (`PII`) domain filter for protected health information (`PHI`).
+
+## February 2020
+
+Additional entity types are now available in the Named Entity Recognition (NER). This update introduces model version `2020-02-01`, which includes:
+
+* Recognition of the following general entity types (English only):
+    * PersonType
+    * Product
+    * Event
+    * Geopolitical Entity (GPE) as a subtype under Location
+    * Skill
+
+* Recognition of the following personal information entity types (English only):
+    * Person
+    * Organization
+    * Age as a subtype under Quantity
+    * Date as a subtype under DateTime
+    * Email 
+    * Phone Number (US only)
+    * URL
+    * IP Address
+
+### October 2019
+
+* Introduction of PII feature
+* Model version `2019-10-01`, which includes:
+    * Named entity recognition:
+        * Expanded detection and categorization of entities found in text. 
+        * Recognition of the following new entity types:
+            * Phone number
+            * IP address
+    * Sentiment analysis:
+        * Significant improvements in the accuracy and detail of the API's text categorization and scoring.
+        * Automatic labeling for different sentiments in text.
+        * Sentiment analysis and output on a document and sentence level. 
+
+    This model version supports: English (`en`), Japanese (`ja`), Chinese Simplified (`zh-Hans`),  Chinese Traditional (`zh-Hant`), French (`fr`), Italian (`it`), Spanish (`es`), Dutch (`nl`), Portuguese (`pt`), and German (`de`). 
+
+## Next steps
+
+See [What's new](../whats-new.md) for current service updates. 

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+    - name: Previous service updates
+      href: concepts/previous-updates.md
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articles/cognitive-services/language-service/whats-new.md

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 ## Next steps
 
-* [What is Azure Cognitive Service for Language?](overview.md)
+* See the [previous updates](./concepts/previous-updates.md) article for service updates not listed here.