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See What's new in Azure Cognitive Search for the most recent announcements.
| Month | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| November | Customer-managed key encryption (extended) | Extends customer-managed encryption over the full range of assets created and managed by a search service. Generally available. |
| September | Visual Studio Code extension for Azure Cognitive Search | Adds a workspace, navigation, intellisense, and templates for creating indexes, indexers, data sources, and skillsets. This feature is currently in public preview. |
| September | System managed service identity (indexers) | Generally available. |
| September | Outbound requests using a private link | Generally available. |
| September | Management REST API (2020-08-01) | Generally available. |
| September | Management REST API (2020-08-01-Preview) | Adds shared private link resource for Azure Functions and Azure SQL for MySQL Databases. |
| September | Management .NET SDK 4.0 | Azure SDK update for the management SDK, targeted REST API version 2020-08-01. Generally available. |
| August | double encryption | Generally available on all search services created after August 1, 2020 in these regions: West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, US Gov Arizona. |
| July | Azure.Search.Documents client library | Azure SDK for .NET, generally available. |
| July | azure.search.documents client library | Azure SDK for Python, generally available. |
| July | @azure/search-documents client library | Azure SDK for JavaScript, generally available. |
| June | Knowledge store | Generally available. |
| June | Search REST API 2020-06-30 | Generally available. |
| June | Search REST API 2020-06-30-Preview | Adds Reset Skillset to selectively reprocess skills, and incremental enrichment. |
| June | Okapi BM25 relevance algorithm | Generally available. |
| June | executionEnvironment (applies to search services using Azure Private Link.) | Generally available. |
| June | AML skill (preview) | A cognitive skill that extends AI enrichment with a custom Azure Machine Learning (AML) model. |
| May | Debug sessions (preview) | Skillset debugger in the portal. |
| May | IP rules for in-bound firewall support | Generally available. |
| May | Azure Private Link for a private search endpoint | Generally available. |
| May | Managed service identity (indexers) - (preview) | Connect to Azure data sources using a managed identity. |
| May | sessionId query parameter, scoringStatistics=global parameter | Global search statistics, useful for machine learning (LearnToRank) models for search relevance. |
| May | featuresMode relevance score expansion (preview) | |
| March | Native blob soft delete (preview) | Deletes search documents if the source blob is soft-deleted in blob storage. |
| March | Management REST API (2020-03-13) | Generally available. |
| February | PII Detection skill | A cognitive skill that extracts and masks personal information. |
| February | Custom Entity Lookup skill | A cognitive skill that finds words and phrases from a list and labels all documents with matching entities. |
| January | Customer-managed key encryption | Generally available |
| January | IP rules for in-bound firewall support | New IpRule and NetworkRuleSet properties in CreateOrUpdate API. |
| January | Create a private endpoint | Set up a Private Link for secure connections to your search service. This preview feature has a dependency Azure Private Link and Azure Virtual Network as part of the solution. |