What's new in Language Understanding

Important

LUIS will be retired on October 1st 2025 and starting April 1st 2023 you will not be able to create new LUIS resources. We recommend migrating your LUIS applications to conversational language understanding to benefit from continued product support and multilingual capabilities.

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Release notes

January 2022

November 2021

December 2020

  • All LUIS users are required to migrate to a LUIS authoring resource.
  • New evaluation endpoints that allow you to submit batch tests using the REST API, and get accuracy results for your intents and entities. Available starting with the v3.0-preview LUIS Endpoint.

June 2020

May 2020 - //Build

March 2020

  • TLS 1.2 is now enforced for all HTTP requests to this service. For more information, see Azure AI services security.

November 4, 2019 - Ignite

  • Improved developer productivity

    • General availability of our prediction endpoint V3.
    • Ability to import and export apps with .lu (LUDown) format. This paves the way for an effective CI/CD process.
  • Language expansion

  • Prebuilt models

  • Advance language understanding capabilities - building sophisticated language models with less effort.

  • New, expanded limits - higher maximum for phrase lists and total phrases, new model as a feature limits

  • Extract information from text in the format of deep hierarchy structure, making conversation applications more powerful.

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September 3, 2019

  • Azure authoring resource - migrate now.
    • 500 apps per Azure resource
    • 100 versions per app
  • Turkish support for prebuilt entities
  • Italian support for datetimeV2

July 23, 2019

  • Update the Recognizers-Text to 1.2.3
    • Age, Temperature, Dimension, and Currency recognizers in Italian.
    • Improvement in Holiday recognition in English to correctly calculate Thanksgiving-based dates.
    • Improvements in French DateTime to reduce false positives of non-Date and non-Time entities.
    • Support for calendar/school/fiscal year and acronyms in English DateRange.
    • Improved PhoneNumber recognition in Chinese and Japanese.
    • Improved support for NumberRange in English.
    • Performance improvements.

June 24, 2019

May 6, 2019 - //Build Conference

The following features were released at the Build 2019 Conference:

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