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What's New
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This document outlines features and improvements from each release.

v1.2.0 (March 13, 2020)
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- Supporting features released with SAS Viya 3.5
- APIs for Image embeddings
- Survival analysis support
- More example notebooks
- Various bug fixes

v1.1.2 (August 13, 2019)
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- Updating and expanding the documentation
- Various bug fixes

v1.1.1 (August 05, 2019)
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- New speech-to-text APIs that enables us doing language model post processing
- APIs for Image captioning
- More example notebooks
- Updated weights (located: http://support.sas.com/documentation/prod-p/vdmml/zip/index.html)
  supporting new version of ONNX
- Various bug fixes

v1.1.0 (July 16, 2019)
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- New layers: transpose convolution and group convolution
- New architectures: U-Net, MobileNet, and ShuffleNet
- Supporting FasterRCNN for object detection
- Supporting image segmentation
- Various bug fixes
- Improved documentation
- Improved code coverage

v1.0.2 (March 16, 2019)
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- Various bug fixes
- A new way of creating models
- Multi-step forecasting

v1.0.1 (December 04, 2018)
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- Various bug fixes
- ONNX import and export support
- Re-organization of examples

v1.0.0 (October 26, 2018)
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- Text, audio, and time series support in addition to image
- APIs for RNN based tasks: text classification, text generation, and sequence labeling
- APIs for object detection
- APIs for time series processing and modeling
- APIs for processing audio files and creating speech recognition models
- Additional pre-defined network architectures such as DenseNet, DarkNet, Inception, and Yolo
 with enhanced data visualization and metadata handling