2021 Archive for "What's New in Cognitive Search"
See What's new in Azure Cognitive Search for the most recent announcements.
| Month | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| December | Enhanced configuration for semantic search | This configuration is a new addition to the 2021-04-30-Preview API, and is now required for semantic queries and Azure portal. |
| November | Azure Files indexer (preview) | Public preview in the portal and preview REST APIs. |
| July | Search REST API 2021-04-30-Preview | Public preview announcement. |
| July | Role-based access control for data plane (preview) | Public preview announcement. |
| July | Management REST API 2021-04-01-Preview | Modifies Create or Update Service to support new DataPlaneAuthOptions. Public preview announcement. |
| May | Power Query connector support (preview) | Public preview announcement. |
| May | Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 indexer | Generally available, using REST api-version=2020-06-30 and Azure portal. |
| May | Azure MySQL indexer (preview) | Public preview, REST api-version=2020-06-30-Preview, .NET SDK 11.2.1, and Azure portal. |
| May | More queryLanguages for spell check and semantic results | See Announcement (techcommunity blog). Public preview. Use Search Documents (REST) api-version=2020-06-30-Preview, Azure.Search.Documents 11.3.0-beta.2, or Search explorer in Azure portal. |
| May | Full support for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption | Generally available in all regions, subject to service creation dates. |
| April | Azure Cosmos DB for Apache Gremlin support (preview) | Public preview (by request), using api-version=2020-06-30-Preview. |
| March | Semantic search (preview) | Search results relevance scoring based on semantic models. Public preview. Use Search Documents (REST) api-version=2020-06-30-Preview or Search explorer in Azure portal. Region and tier restrictions apply. |
| March | Spell check query terms (preview) | The speller option works with any query type (simple, full, or semantic). Public preview, REST only, api-version=2020-06-30-Preview |
| March | SharePoint indexer (preview) | Public preview, REST only, api-version=2020-06-30-Preview |
| March | Normalizers (preview) | Public preview, REST only, api-version=2020-06-30-Preview |
| March | Custom Entity Lookup skill | Scans for strings specified in a custom, user-defined list of words and phrases. Generally available. |
| February | Reset Documents (preview) | Available in the Search REST API 2020-06-30-Preview. |
| February | Availability Zones | Search services with two or more replicas in certain regions gain resiliency by having replicas in two or more distinct physical locations. The region and date of search service creation determine availability. |
| February | Azure CLI Azure PowerShell |
New revisions now provide the full range of operations in the Management REST API 2020-08-01, including support for IP firewall rules and private endpoint. Generally available. |
| January | Solution accelerator for Azure Cognitive Search and QnA Maker | Pulls questions and answers out of the document and suggest the most relevant answers. A live demo app can be found at https://aka.ms/qnaWithAzureSearchDemo. This feature is an open-source project (no SLA). |