New

• 14 new languages: Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Esperanto, Estonian, Galician, Interlingua, Marathi, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai, Uyghur, Vietnamese, and Welsh
• The JSON-v2 output version is now 2.8, specific changes are:
• Additional language pack information has been added to the RecognitionStarted websocket message. There is now more detailed information about properties of the language being used, such as writing direction and word delimiter.
• We now also record the correct attachment direction for punctuation (e.g. before or after a space) in a new attaches_to field.

Improvements

• Improved accuracy for 20 languages: Latvian (lv), Swedish (sv), Hungarian (hu), Portuguese (pt), Polish (pl), Mandarin Chinese (cmn), Arabic (ar), Dutch (nl), Slovak (sk), Bulgarian (bg), Romanian (ro), Slovenian (sl), Lithuanian (It), Croatian (hr), Malay (ms), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Greek (el), Turkish (tr)
• Improved formatting of numeric entities such as dates, currencies and large numbers for Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), and Dutch (nl).

Fixes

• Fix for accurately handling "p" as "pence" when transcribing currency in English (en).
• Fix for handling small denominator fractions in Italian (it) and not converting to similar English homonyms e.g. "un terzo" being converted to "1/3".

Known Limitations

| Issue ID | Summary | Detailed Description and Possible Workarounds |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| REQ-1409 | Proteus HCL with ### unk> causes out of memory error | A custom dictionary list that contains the word ### unk> causes the worker to crash. |
| REQ-10160 | Advanced punctuation for Spanish (es) does not contain inverted marks. | Inverted marks [ ¿ ¡ ] are not currently available for Spanish advanced punctuation. |
| REQ-10627 | Double full stops when acronym is at the end of the sentence | If there is an acronym at the end of the sentence, then a double full stop will be output, for example: "team G.B.." |
| REQ-10634 | Putting "-" as an item in additional vocab configuration will cause the container to fail | Do not enter just a "-" on its own in Custom Dictionary either as an additional vocab item or in the sounds_like property. Hyphens are still supported when entered as part of phrases or words |

Supported Platforms

Docker (17.06.0+) running on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or CentOS