Meilisearch Q4 2024 release wrap-up

We've been busy working on things you've asked for, and the team is excited to share what's new in Meilisearch this quarter.

A revamped search preview 🔍

The search preview has been one of our most-used features, but it didn't let you test everything Meilisearch can do. We've now rebuilt our search preview to make it more useful to assess test search result relevancy when you are tweaking an index's settings.

What's included:

• Show/hide the results' ranking score:

• Check and customize search options
• Configure filterable attributes as facets
• Test AI-powered searches if this functionality has been enabled for your project.

An updated preview allows you to test everything in real-time, making it easier to get your search working exactly how you want.

New index settings in the UI ⚙️

We've fixed one of your biggest frustrations - you and your team no longer need to rely on JSON input to change your index settings. Instead of typing JSON code, you'll now see straightforward controls in the UI for adjusting settings like:

• Add and delete searchable attributes:

• Change the ranks of your searchable attributes

• Reset to default

Now anyone on your team can get access to user-friendly modification of the index settings without needing to understand JSON syntax.

Speed up your search with feature opt-out 🚀

We've got some updates for those of you working with massive datasets. To reduce disk usage and speed up indexing by up to 15%, you can now optimize Meilisearch's performance:

• Choose to opt-out of prefix search and facet search features
• Reduce indexing time and save disk space

This has been one of our most requested features from users dealing with large-scale deployments, and we're excited to see how you'll use it.

What else is cooking? 🎯

New Japan region is coming in Q4! 🇯🇵

Soon, you’ll be able to host your Meilisearch projects in Japan. This means much faster searches for users in Asia-Pacific - instead of connecting to Singapore, they'll connect directly to servers in Japan. The difference? A search that used to take 80+ milliseconds will happen almost instantly.

To use it, you’ll just need to pick Japan when you create a new project in the cloud dashboard. Keep an eye on our updates to know exactly when it’s released!

We are not stopping here. Our team is already working on our early 2025 releases. Here's a quick spoiler:

• AI-powered hybrid search general availability
• New Cloud dashboard features
• Even better performance optimizations

Try it out!

Want to test these features? Sign up for Meilisearch Cloud to experience these new features firsthand.

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We built these changes based on your feedback, and we'd love to know if they help. Try them out and tell us what you think.

For a more in-depth look at these updates, visit our documentation.