Meilisearch
Launch Week

Meilisearch
Launch Week

April 13th–17th, 2026

Horizontal scaling, enhanced security, developer tooling, and more.

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The schedule

Five days. Five launches.

Every day of launch week brought a major new feature to Meilisearch.

Monday, 13th AprilShipped

Sharding & Replication

What’s new: Meilisearch scales horizontally.

  • ›Sharding – distribute data across nodes
  • ›Replication – high read availability across instances
  • ›Automatic failover – keep search running, always
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Sharding and replication across primary and shard nodes
Tuesday, 14th AprilShipped

SSO/SAML + MFA

What’s new: security for each login path.

  • ›SSO/SAML – any identity provider, SAML 2.0 or OIDC
  • ›Auto-provisioning – onboarded automatically
  • ›Instant de-provisioning – access revoked via SCIM
Enable MFA freeDocs – SSOGet an SSO quote
SSO/SAML configuration screen in the Meilisearch Cloud
Wednesday, 15th AprilShipped

Chat out of the box

What’s new: easy setup in the Cloud UI.

  • ›Built-in RAG – powered by your own index
  • ›Auto-generated setup – from your data
  • ›Chat inspector – debug tool calls and raw messages
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Chat UI in Meilisearch Cloud
Thursday, 16th AprilShipped

Search performance inspector

What’s new: visibility into your search pipeline.

  • ›Query breakdown – keyword, semantic, format, and more
  • ›Engineer-level insights – pinpoint slowdowns at a glance
  • ›Cloud → Search preview → Performance trace
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Search performance inspector with query breakdown
Friday, 17th AprilBeta / experimental

Document joins + Search rules

What’s new: link data across indexes and take control of your results.

  • ›Document joins – define relationships between indexes, sync updates, and filter across them with the new _foreign syntax
  • ›Dynamic search rules – pin products to specific positions based on what users search for
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Dynamic search rules pinning results

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