Subset of Azure Cognitive Search skills are retiring on 31 August 2024

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Subset of Azure Cognitive Search skills are retiring on 31 August 2024

Deadline: Aug 31, 2024 Impacted Services:

• Azure Cognitive Services

More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/retirement-notice-select-azure-cognitive-search-skills-will-be-retired-on-31-august-2024/

Notice

The skills that are being deprecated are:

• Microsoft.Skills.Text.SentimentSkill
  • Last available API version: 2021-04-30-Preview
  • More info here)
• Microsoft.Skills.Text.EntityRecognitionSkill
  • Last available API version: 2021-04-30-Preview
  • More info here)
• Microsoft.Skills.Text.NamedEntityRecognitionSkill
  • Last available API version: 2017-11-11-Preview
  • More info here)

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Because version 3 of Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills improve accuracy and model performance, we are retiring version 2 of sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills on 31 August 2024.

We encourage you to make the switch early to benefit from the improved models.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Aug 17, 2021	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Aug 31, 2024	Invocation of skills will result in errors

Impact

Subset of Azure Cognitive Search skills are retiring on 31 August 2024 and upgrades are required as invocations of the skills will result in errors.

Required Action

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Transition to version 3 of the Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills before 31 August 2024. After 31 August 2024, the older versions of sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills will no longer be supported, and any invocation of these skills will result in errors.  When adding sentiment analysis or entity recognition skills, please use the latest version.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).
• Contact Azure support (link).

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