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Meilisearch August updates

Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. August 2023 edition.

17 Aug 20232 min read
Laurent Cazanove
Laurent CazanoveDeveloper Experience Engineer@StriftCodes
Meilisearch August updates
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Hey there, here's your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. Let's dive in!

🚀 Releasing Meilisearch v1.3

What's new? v1.3

We released v1.3 which introduces vector search, ranking score details, search for facet values, and dynamic searchable fields.

Read the release blog🔢 Vector search is coming to Meilisearch*

Empowering search through AI: vector storage is coming to Meilisearch

Vector search is our first step towards semantic search. It is an important step toward our long-term goal of providing hybrid search: combining the benefits of full-text and semantic search.

Read the announcement🤝 Qogita customer story*

Qogita success story: simplifying B2B trade with Meilisearch Cloud

With Meilisearch Cloud, Qogita can ensure high seller exposure and increased relevancy, resulting in an excellent buyer-seller interaction.

Read the success story📰 In the news*

🦜🔗 Meilisearch LangChain integration guide

Learn how to integrate the Meilisearch vector store in LangChain.

🏀 From ranking to scoringead about our engineers journey to add relevancy scores to search results.

🎮 Meilisearch SaaS demo

We’ve released a new demo feature using multi-search, multi-tenancy, filtering, and sorting using Laravel.

⚡️ Blazing fast async data loading in Meilisearch using Python

Read this community article how to use Meilisearch with Pydantic.

🍿 Meilisearch, the open-source search engine with a UX focus

Watch this talk explaining how to use Meilisearch (in French, subtitles available.)

🤗 Made with Meilisearch

Our featured project of the month is pbvault.com. Paintball Vault is a marketplace where you can easily buy, sell, and trade both your used and new paintball gear.

The main navigation search bar and all the product grids throughout the site and app use Meilisearch to make browsing intuitive and easy.

Screenshot of pbvault.com

Buy, sell, and trade paintball gear on pbvault.com

We’re always looking to promote new projects from the community. Post yours in the #built-with-meilisearch Discord channel!

🏡 Life at Meili

Remote work is the future of work: find out how we aim to improve inclusivity and work-life balance through remote-working.

A forest

Read the blog post🦸‍♀️ We’re hiring!*

See our open positions:


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For more things Meilisearch, join our developers community on Discord. You can learn more about the product by checking out the roadmap and participating in product discussions.

Until next time.

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