⚠️ This version of spaCy requires downloading new models . You can use the spacy validate command to find out which models need updating, and print update instructions. If you've been training your own models , you'll need to retrain them with the new version. ✨ New features and improvements NEW: Pretrained core models for Norwegian (MIT) and Lithuanian (CC BY-SA). NEW: Better pre-trained Dutch NER using custom labelled UD corpus instead of WikiNER. NEW: Make spaCy roughly 5-10× smaller on disk (depending on your platform) by compressing and moving lookups to a separate package. NEW: EntityLinker and KnowledgeBase API to train and access entity linking models, plus scripts to train your own Wikidata models. NEW: 10× faster PhraseMatcher and improved phrase matching algorithm. NEW: DocBin class to efficiently serialize collections of Doc objects. NEW: Train text classification models on the command line with spacy train and get textcat results via the Scorer . NEW: debug-data command to validate your training ...