Meilisearch Files

Build compatibility note

The git binary must now be present at build time to populate the commitSha1 field of the /version field.

This change was made for build performance reasons.

by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6030

🌈 Improvements

Another piece of the settings indexer is available: searchable and exact attributes

The new settings indexer scales better, supports near-instant cancellations and displays the progress of the indexing operation.

Previously, the new settings indexer was enabled only if the only changes in a settings batch were to embedder settings. In Meilisearch v1.29.0, the new settings indexer will be enabled if the change is any combination of: - searchableAttributes - exactAttributes - proximityPrecision - embedders (as before)

Any other change to settings appearing in a batch will cause the batch to use the legacy settings indexer. Additionally, the new settings indexer is currently disabled by default for Cloud users.

OSS users who would like to disable the new settings indexer should pass the MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_NO_EDITION_2024_FOR_SETTINGS environment variable to true.

by @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5983

Enable the new vector store by default for new indexes

Meilisearch v1.21.0 introduced a new vector store backend providing better performance and relevancy.

Starting with v1.29.0, any newly created index will default to the new backend. Existing indexes will be left unchanged.

It is still possible to explicitly choose the vector store backend, please refer to the relevant experimental feature discussion page.

by @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6004

Support more models for huggingFace embedder

You can now select models with the XLM Roberta architecture when generating embeddings locally on CPU or GPU with the huggingFace embedder.

by @qdequele in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6018

🦋 Bug fixes

• Fix rare internal error in the experimental vector store by @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6032

🔧 Maintenance and Misc.

Last week was a Quality of Life week, and while we still had improvements in the pipe, the bulk of our work was dedicated to maintenance tasks.

Most notably, the CI is now faster, going from over one hour to less than 30 minutes, and also more reliable as it automatically tests the dumpless upgrade.

• New workload to run declarative tests. This is, in particular, very useful to automatically test the dumpless upgrade. By @Mubelotix in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5861
• The code that applies the dumpless upgrade migrations was rewritten to make it easier to maintain. By @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6029
• We no longer run macOS and Windows tests at PR time. These CI jobs were very slow and given their limited impact they will only be run on the nightly builds. Ny @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6021
• Send notifications for Kubernetes integration when releasing by @curquiza in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6023
• Introduce xtask sub-command to generate prototype tag names with the expected nomenclature by @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6022
• Fix misc. CI issues by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6026

Asset availability note

⚠️ The Meilisearch binary is not available for meilisearch-enterprise-macos-amd64 and meilisearch-macos-amd64 due to a compilation oversight. https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6037 aims at fixing this for future releases.

The more recent meilisearch-enterprise-macos-apple-silicon and meilisearch-macos-apple-silicon are fine.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/compare/v1.28.2...v1.29.0