What's new in QnA Maker
Learn what's new in the service. These items may release notes, videos, blog posts, and other types of information. Bookmark this page to keep up-to-date with the service.
Note
A newer version of the question and answering capability is now available as part of Azure Cognitive Service for Language. For more information see Azure Cognitive Service for Language Documentation. For question answering capabilities within the Language Service, see question answering. For information on migrating existing knowledge bases consult the migration guide.
Release notes
Learn what's new with QnA Maker.
May 2021
- QnA Maker managed has been re-introduced as Custom question answering feature in Text Analytics resource.
- Custom question answering supports unstructured documents.
- Prebuilt API has been introduced to generate answers for user queries from document text passed via the API.
November 2020
- New version of QnA Maker launched in free Public Preview. Read more here.
- Simplified resource creation
- End to End region support
- Deep learnt ranking model
- Machine Reading Comprehension for precise answers
July 2020
- Metadata:
ORlogical combination of multiple metadata pairs - Steps to configure Cognitive Search endpoints to be private, but still accessible to QnA Maker.
- Free Cognitive Search resources are removed after 90 days of inactivity.
June 2020
- Updated Power Virtual Agent tutorial for faster and easier steps
May 2020
March 2020
- TLS 1.2 is now enforced for all HTTP requests to this service. For more information, see Azure Cognitive Services security.
February 2020
- NPM package with GenerateAnswer API
November 2019
- US Government cloud support for QnA Maker
- Multi-turn feature in GA
- Chit-chat support available in tier-1 languages
October 2019
- Explicitly setting the language for all knowledge bases in the QnA Maker service.
September 2019
- Import and export with XLS file format.
June 2019
- Improved ranker model for French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese
April 2019
- Support website content extraction
- SharePoint document support from authenticated access
March 2019
- Active learning provides suggestions for new question alternatives based on real user questions
- Improved natural language processing (NLP) ranker model for English