Launch Week wrap-up: everything that shipped in five days, April 2026
Everything from Meilisearch Launch Week, in one place. Five days, every release, who it's for.
Maya Shin
Conversational search, out of the box: Meilisearch Chat in Cloud UI
Meilisearch Cloud now ships a built-in chat UI. Select an index, get an auto-generated system prompt, guardrails, and an inspector tab to debug - no separate AI pipeline required.
Maya Shin
Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud
Meilisearch Cloud now supports sharding and replication - letting your search infrastructure scale horizontally, stay available during updates, and serve users from the nearest node. Here is what that means and who it is for.
Maya Shin
Roadmap roundup: where Meilisearch is heading
Where Meilisearch is heading next: serverless indexes, an AI gateway with our own models, a richer Cloud dashboard, and a more capable chat engine — all converging into one information retrieval platform.
Quentin de Quelen
Security update: Meilisearch v1.34.1 fixes an SSRF vulnerability
Meilisearch v1.34.1 patches a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting self-hosted instances v1.8–v1.34.0. Meilisearch Cloud customers are unaffected; we recommend self-hosted users upgrade immediately.
Louis Dureuil
Meilisearch January updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. January 2026 edition.
Maya Shin
Meilisearch October updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. October 2025 edition.
Maya Shin
That's a wrap: Meilisearch Launch Week, October 13-17th 2025
New in Meilisearch: Conversational AI, search personalization, multimodal, and more
Maya Shin
Scale with confidence: Introducing resource‑based pricing
Introducing resource-based pricing for Meilisearch: Choose your CPU and RAM, pay for what you provision, and scale with confidence.
Quentin de Quelen
Introducing Meilisearch Chat: conversational search for your data
Introducing Meilisearch Chat: turn your Meilisearch index into a conversational AI with a single /chat endpoint. Faster launches, lower costs, and direct answers your users actually want.
Maya Shin
Meilisearch September Updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. September 2025 edition.
Ali Imran
Meilisearch is now SOC2 Type II compliant: A big step for trust and security
We are bringing even stronger data security and trust to your search experience. Learn what this means for you.
Clémentine Urquizar
Introducing the Meilisearch Enterprise Edition license
Introducing the Meilisearch Enterprise Edition license
Quentin de Quelen
Meilisearch July updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. July 2025 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch June updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. June 2025 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Meilisearch May updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. May 2025 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch April updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. April 2025 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch March updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. March 2025 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch AI launch week recap
Meilisearch AI launch recap: Transforming search with AI and personalization
Maya Shin
Building the future of search with Meilisearch AI
We're transforming how developers build search with Meilisearch AI. No more complex infrastructure – just powerful, intelligent search that works out of the box.
Quentin de Quelen
Introducing Meilisearch's next-generation indexer: 4x faster updates, 30% less storage
Indexer edition 2024 revolutionizes search performance with parallel processing, optimized RAM usage, and enhanced observability. See what's new in our latest release.
Louis Dureuil
Meilisearch January Updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. January 2025 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch December updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. December 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch November updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. November 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch Q4 2024 release wrap-up
Meilisearch Q4 release includes faster search, more control over settings in UI and a new region.
Maya Shin
Meilisearch October updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. October 2024 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Meilisearch September updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. September 2024 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Meilisearch August updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. August 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch July updates
Your monthly recap of everything Meilisearch. July 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch April Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. April 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch March Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. March 2024 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Introducing hybrid search: combining full-text and semantic search for optimal balance
Meilisearch's AI journey began last summer with vector search and storage. Today, we unveil hybrid search with autogenerated embedders, advancing our AI capabilities.
Maya Shin
Meilisearch February updates
February 2024 updates from Meilisearch: upcoming launch event, vector embeddings explained, v1.6 upgrade, and new AI search features.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch January Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. Januar 2024 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch December Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. December 2023 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Meilisearch November Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. November 2023 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch October updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. October 2023 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Meilisearch September Updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. September 2023 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Introducing Meilisearch's vector search and vector database to navigate the future of search
This release introduces semantic and hybrid search capabilities to further enhance the search experience.
Maya Shin
Meilisearch August updates
Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. August 2023 edition.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch July updates
Your bi-monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. July 2023 edition.
Carolina Ferreira
Vector storage is coming to Meilisearch to empower search through AI
We're thrilled to release vector storage for Meilisearch to bring fast, relevant search to AI-powered applications.
Laurent Cazanove
Meilisearch 1.0: the next stage in search
Meilisearch launches the first completely stable, forward-compatible, and enterprise-ready version of its highly performant open-source search engine.
Clémentine Urquizar
Meilisearch in 2022
The CEO of Meilisearch reflects on the challenges and achievements of the past year.
Quentin de Quelen
Meilisearch raises a $15M Series A to offer enterprise-focused products and services
Meilisearch will use this fresh round of capital to expand its marketing and sales teams, transitioning to an enterprise-focused strategy while doubling down on its product-led growth.
Quentin de Quelen
How open source drives our strategy
The CEO of Meilisearch explains why open source was the only choice for achieving his company’s goals.
Quentin de Quelen
Our first SaaS product: the history behind Meilisearch Cloud
It's time to unveil what we've been working on over the past few months: Meilisearch Cloud, our Software-as-a-Service offering.
Thomas Payet
Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search
Find out how this new fundraising will help us build the search of tomorrow.
Quentin de Quelen
Meili raises 1.5M€ for open source search in Rust
Meili raised 1.5M euros from LocalGlobe, Seedcamp, Kima, and Tiny.vc to build a community around its open-source search engine.
Thomas Payet
Value in Open #1 - PostHog
The first episode of the Value in Open podcast, featuring PostHog founder James Hawkins on building a sustainable open-source business.
Erlend Sogge
Meilisearch Values v0.1: Tech is political
Meilisearch shares its core company values and explains why the team believes technology is inherently political.
Erlend Sogge
Meilisearch - Open business plan v0.1
Meilisearch publishes its open business plan, detailing how the company plans to build a sustainable open-source search engine business.
Erlend Sogge
To open source, and beyond!
Meilisearch shares its 2020 vision: fully committing to open source and becoming the go-to search engine for developers.
Quentin de Quelen
Meilisearch: Beta release!
Meilisearch announces its first beta release: an open-source, instant, typo-tolerant search engine built to make great search accessible to all.
Thomas Payet
Open source or not?
We want to share our thoughts about open source and how we should license our code. At Meili, we are building an instant search engine, in Rust 🦀, and we want to open source it.
Thomas Payet
Starting our blog
The very first Meilisearch blog post, introducing the team and their mission to build an open-source alternative to Algolia.
Thomas Payet