Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024

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](https://aka.ms/azs-deprecated-skills) early to benefit from the improved models. **Required action** Transition to version 3 of the [Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition](https://aka.ms/azs-deprecated-skills) 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. **Help and support** If you have questions, get answers from community experts in [Microsoft Q&A](https://aka.ms/qna-azure-cognitive-search-v2). If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a [support request](https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft%5FAzure%5FSupport/HelpAndSupportBlade/newsupportrequest). * Azure Cognitive Search * Retirements * [ Azure Cognitive Search](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/search/)