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+# Phileas Release Notes
+
+Issues whose identifiers start with `PHL-` were previously tracked in Jira before the project's issues were managed in GitHub.
+
+## Version 2.6.0 (not yet released)
+
+* PHL-313 - Remove OWNER project fork for managing application properties
+* PHL-312 - Add death date detection similar to the birthdate detection
+* PHL-311 - Return the probabilities of sentiment and offensiveness in addition to the predicted categories
+
+## Version 2.5.0
+
+* PHL-309 - Load OpenNLP models from the classpath by default
+* PHL-308 - Add sentiment as a condition
+
+## Version 2.4.0
+
+* PHL-306 - Rename "filter profile" to "policy"
+* PHL-305 - Allow dates to be shifted by a random value
+* PHL-304 - Skip onnx runtime tests on OSX
+
+## Version 2.3.0
+No issues found  Refresh
+
+## Version 2.2.1
+
+* PHL-277 - Combine PDFs image into a new PDF
+* PHL-264 - Bring back Flair as PersonsV1 filter
+
+## Version 2.2.0
+
+* PHL-277 - Combine PDFs image into a new PDF - **05/Sep/23 12:27** - Today 1:37
+* PHL-264 - Bring back Flair as PersonsV1 filter
+
+## Version 2.1.0
+
+* PHL-261 - Incorporate a sentence detector into the NER
+* PHL-260 - Switch to Apache OpenNLP 2.0 instead of using ONNX Runtime directly
+* PHL-259 - Allow for reading encryption values from environment variables
+* PHL-258 - Implement format-preserving encryption
+
+## Version 2.0.0
+
+* PHL-254 - Remove splitting capability
+* PHL-251 - Replace phileas-ner with Java ONNX service
+
+## Version 1.12.2
+
+* PHL-249 - Upgrade log4j to 2.16.0
+
+## Version 1.12.1
+
+* PHL-249 - Upgrade log4j to 2.16.0
+
+## Version 1.12.0
+
+* PHL-248 - Upgrade log4j to 2.15.0
+* PHL-246 - Remove store from FilterService
+* PHL-245 - Add S3 key to S3FilterProfileService
+* PHL-244 - Allow user to set bounding boxes for PDF redaction
+* PHL-243 - Allow for combining filter profiles per request
+* PHL-242 - A date filter test is failing due to mid-month
+* PHL-239 - Support dates like Aug. 31, 2020
+* PHL-238 - Support ages like: 61 y/o
+* PHL-233 - Filter profiles reference environment variable values
+* PHL-227 - Support currency such as $.50
+* PHL-173 - 9 digit zip codes without a delimiter are not found - Improvement
+
+## Version 1.11.0
+
+* PHL-226 - Add currency filter
+* PHL-222 - Add bank routing number filter
+* PHL-218 - Add document analysis prior to filtering
+* PHL-211 - Encapsulate the constructor arguments to the filters
+
+## Version 1.10.1
+No issues found  Refresh
+
+## Version 1.10.0
+
+* PHL-217 - Change redisson delete to delete by index
+* PHL-216 - Update project dependencies
+* PHL-208 - Redact multiple occurrences of same span in line in PDF - Bug
+* PHL-207 - Improve date year validation
+* PHL-204 - Date "July 3, 2012" is not being identified - Bug
+* PHL-201 - Add domain property to filter profile
+* PHL-200 - Add properties to the filter profile to enable/disable post filters
+* PHL-198 - Add property to NER filter to set a confidence threshold
+* PHL-197 - Add function to return Span as a CSV
+* PHL-196 - Create spans from LAPPS JSON
+* PHL-195 - Include JPEG processing libraries for PDF extraction
+* PHL-187 - PostFilter classes with empty constructors should be singletons
+* PHL-183 - Adjust phone number confidence based on pattern
+* PHL-162 - Fix RELATIVE date filter strategy for "October 2009" date
+
+## Version 1.9.0
+
+* PHL-188 - Add street address filter
+* PHL-184 - Remove new line characters from spans
+* PHL-179 - Lowercase names in first name index
+* PHL-178 - Surname filter tests aren't finding anything
+* PHL-177 - Identify physician names
+* PHL-176 - IDENTIFIER filter is finding just capitalized words
+* PHL-175 - Add support for age format "64-year-old"
+* PHL-174 - Ages should not identify "10 years"
+* PHL-171 - Add redaction color for PDF
+* PHL-169 - Add PDF document processing
+* PHL-166 - Add redaction method to leave the last four digits
+* PHL-165 - Redact dates to just the 4 digit year
+* PHL-163 - Handle dates like 09-2021
+* PHL-161 - Fix logger class names in date filter and identifier filter
+* PHL-160 - Add optional period in ages
+* PHL-159 - Increase ner.timeout.sec to a large value
+* PHL-158 - Set -1 to split threshold to set no limit
+* PHL-157 - Resolve NPEs with dictionary filter
+* PHL-4 - Shift dates by some time period
+
+## Version 1.8.0
+
+* PHL-155 - Maintain metrics on individual filter performance times
+* PHL-148 - Read list of filter ignored terms from a file
+
+## Version 1.7.0
+
+* PHL-154 - Add Prometheus monitoring endpoint
+* PHL-152 - Add detect() method to filters
+* PHL-151 - Make filter ignore lists be not case-sensitive
+* PHL-150 - BloomDictionaryFilter needs to support phrases and not just words
+* PHL-149 - Fix IBAN code validation - Bug
+* PHL-147 - Allow for ignoring based on patterns
+* PHL-146 - Allow timeout between Philter and Philter NER to be customizable
+* PHL-145 - Split large text into multiple pieces
+* PHL-141 - Read list of globally ignored words from a file
+* PHL-140 - Add classification condition to IdentifierFilterStrategy
+* PHL-139 - Allow spaces in IBAN codes
+
+## Version 1.6.0
+
+* PHL-143 - Fix spans not going to the store - Bug
+* PHL-142 - Add PhileasSystemLoader to OWNER
+* PHL-137 - Create filter for mailing tracking numbers
+* PHL-136 - Replace DropWizard metrics with micrometer
+* PHL-135 - Change date parsing to use year instead of year of era - Improvement
+* PHL-134 - Fix filter type for Mac address - Bug
+* PHL-133 - Fix case sensitivity check for ignored terms - Bug
+* PHL-132 - Fix credit card validation - Bug
+* PHL-131 - Upgrade to JUnit 5
+* PHL-129 - Change "label" to "classification" - Improvement
+* PHL-128 - Fix ignore check for LuceneDictionaryFilter - Bug
+* PHL-127 - Add fuzzy property to custom dictionary filter to trigger a bloom filter
+* PHL-126 - Allow custom dictionaries to read terms from a file
+* PHL-125 - Add tests for all FilterStrategy classes
+* PHL-124 - Add condition for checking classification of a span
+* PHL-123 - Expand US passport regex to only include valid first two digits
+* PHL-122 - Fix mac address filter strategy assignment
+* PHL-121 - Add option to disable metrics printed to the console
+* PHL-120 - Set contextual words for each regex filter
+* PHL-118 - Wrap regular expression patterns into an object
+
+## Version 1.5.0
+
+* PHL-98 - Make cache generic and use cache for filter profiles
+* PHL-97 - Incorporate the S3FilterProfileService into Phileas
+* PHL-69 - Create "Section" filter that removes between start and end tags
+
+## Version 1.4.0
+
+* PHL-96 - Upgrade libphonenumber to 8.12.1
+* PHL-95 - Add token condition to NerFilterStrategy
+* PHL-93 - Presence of a confidence condition on a phone number filter strategy causes the text to not be redacted
+* PHL-92 - The token condition specifies quotes twice
+* PHL-89 - Add detection framework
+* PHL-87 - Drop ignored spans before overlapping spans
+* PHL-86 - Use "input" and "token" consistently
+* PHL-85 - StateAbbreviationFilter is making a span with the input and not the state
+* PHL-84 - Capture a span's window when creating a span
+
+## Version 1.3.1
+
+* PHL-82 - Allow client to set document ID
+* PHL-78 - Switch to Java 11
+* PHL-76 - Support credit card numbers with dashes
+* PHL-75 - Add support for TIN to SsnFilter
+* PHL-74 - Add filter for MAC addresses
+* PHL-73 - Add a redaction option for a crypto value
+* PHL-71 - Add replacement template value for the token
+* PHL-70 - Add filter condition based on context
+
+## Version 1.3.0
+
+* PHL-68 - When there are no strategies just redact
+* PHL-67 - Don't identify "may" as a date
+* PHL-66 - Check filter profile delete status
+* PHL-65 - Span text should not end with a period or a space
+* PHL-64 - Add regex for URLs containing IP addresses instead of domain name
+* PHL-62 - Add option to URL filter to require http(s) protocol or www
+* PHL-59 - Improve performance by tuning PyTorch filter client
+* PHL-58 - Generate document ID based on input hash
+* PHL-56 - Don't throw NPE when Philter-NER throws an error
+
+## Version 1.2.0
+
+* PHL-55 - Fix issue where NER conditions are not being applied to NER spans
+* PHL-54 - Add filter profile option to remove punctuation
+* PHL-53 - Release 1.2.0
+* PHL-52 - Move Status class from Phileas to Philter
+* PHL-50 - Offer encrypted connections to Redis
+* PHL-47 - Add enabled property to filter types in filter profile
+* PHL-46 - Add option to require dates to be valid dates
+* PHL-42 - Add option to find invalid credit cards
+* PHL-35 - Add ignore lists specific to individual filters
+* PHL-33 - Test multiple identifiers in a filter profile
+
+## Version 1.1.0
+
+* PHL-41 - Fix replacement checks in strategies
+* PHL-39 - Allow for the filters to be reloaded at runtime
+* PHL-38 - Don't use spring boot for dependency management
+* PHL-36 - Integrate Philter Profile Registry into Phileas
+* PHL-34 - Make store implementation for Elasticsearch
+* PHL-32 - In IdentifierFilter fix the name/label assignment
+* PHL-31 - Automatically set Lucene distance based on the string length
+* PHL-30 - Add ignore lists to filter profile schema
+* PHL-29 - Include item text in Span
+* PHL-24 - Allow for custom dictionary lookup in filters
+* PHL-23 - Get philter-ner endpoint from Philter
+* PHL-21 - Add filter profile schema
+* PHL-19 - Provide an enhanced response to describe how the spans were found/removed
+* PHL-18 - Set default values for filter profile fields
+* PHL-16 - Report metrics per individual filter type
+* PHL-15 - Add metrics prefix property
+* PHL-13 - Do not require filter profile name for StaticFilterProfileService
+* PHL-3 - Apply sensitivity level to NER entities
+
+## Version 1.0.1
+
+* PHL-11 - Fix issue where spans aren't getting applied - Bug
+* PHL-10 - Remove unneeded guava dependency
+* PHL-9 - Add license information to poms
+
+## Version 1.0.0
+
+Initial release.
+
+* PHL-7 - RedisAnonymizationCacheService needs containsValue implemented
+* PHL-5 - Allow Identifier filters to specify regex
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