# New in this Release

This section describes the enhancements to the IDOL PII Package in version 12.7.

- The IDOL PII Package now includes resources for South Africa. A complete set of entities are available to extract information including addresses and postcodes, dates, driving license numbers, names, nationality, national ID numbers, passport numbers, telephone numbers, and tax identification numbers.

- The IDOL PII Package now includes resources for Taiwan. A complete set of entities are available to extract information including addresses and postcodes, dates, driving license numbers, names, nationality, national ID numbers, health numbers, passport numbers, telephone numbers, and tax identification numbers.

- A new grammar, `device_id` has been added to match various device identifiers. This grammar is available in ECR and EJR formats. For more details, see Eduction Grammar Reference.

- The address grammar now returns the `PO_BOX` component for all countries (previously, only UK and USA had this component). In addition, the following countries now detect the post office name, with the `POST_OFFICE` component: Canada, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Taiwan, and Japan.

- The address grammar has been improved to reduce false positive matches. In particular, in the recommended configuration, the grammar no longer matches an unknown street with an unknown city. Either the street name or the city must belong to one of the known lists.

- The standard PII grammars now detect additional types of spaces in input text in all the places where previously regular spaces were expected. This change adds detection for U+00A0 (no break space), U+2007 (figure space), and U+3000 (ideographic space). Where these spaces are detected in input text, they are normalized to regular spaces.

  Similarly, the PII grammars now detect and normalize additional apostrophe characters in places where a regular apostrophe was expected. This change adds detection for U+2019 (right single quote), and U+FF07 (full-width apostrophe).

- The national ID grammar now matches national IDs for Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, and Russia.

- The `name_cjkvt` grammar now has additional entities to match Latin-only and CJKVT-only versions of full names.

- The name and address grammars now have additional landmark entities for the full name or address.

- For the TIN and national ID entities, you can now enable ambiguous entity matching by setting `ambiguous_tin_id_entities=true` in the `pii_postprocessing.lua` script. This option returns multiple possible country matches. By default, post-processing returns only one country, which is more efficient.

- Synonyms have been added to street components of the address entities of many countries. In these cases, when a synonym is detected, the main headword is returned in the normalized text. For example, Oxford St normalizes to Oxford Street in address entity matches for English-speaking countries.

- The address grammar now returns additional components for county (for the UK) and province (for Canada).

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