August Changelog

Here's everything we shipped this month at Meilisearch.

Horizontal scaling with sharding

We introduced experimental support for sharding, enabling horizontal scaling. Read more.

SOC2 compliance

Meilisearch is now SOC2 Type II compliant. Read more.

Multi-modal search

Leverage the new fragments API to get out-of-the-box multi-modal embeddings and search. Read more.

Product updates

New search features

• Stabilize the STARTS_WITH filter with improved performance
• Allow using the EXIST filter on _vectors fields

DX improvements

• Allow sorting on the documents API
• Allow renaming indexes via the index update and index swap APIs
• Search API responses can now include query and documents vectors
• New webhooks API to trigger workflows after task processing
• Transfer documents between instances with the export API
• Improved hybrid search performance when using filters

Dashboard improvements

• Login: multiple OAuth providers can now be linked to the same account
• Tasks: allow tasks cancellation from the UI

In the news

• Introducing Meilisearch Enterprise Edition
  Meilisearch is moving to a dual licensing model to serve both our community and enterprise users better.

• What is RAG and how does it work?
  Our complete guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

• Meilisearch voice search demo
  Search for electronic products using your voice.

• _geoPolygon filter prototype
  Check out this map of Paris construction sites built using the upcoming geo filter.

• Flexible infrastructure pricing
  Customize the infrastructure for your Meilisearch deployment.

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Contributors shout-out

Thanks to @curquiza, @dureuill, @irevoire, @Kerollmops @LeSuisse, @ManyTheFish, @martin-g, @Mubelotix, and @qdequele for their contribution to Meilisearch 🙌

We’re hiring

Check out our open position:

• Senior Software Engineer

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