Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search
5 hours ago
- #Manticore Search
- #Database Release
- #Search Engine
- Manticore Search version 27.1.5 released.
- New features include built-in authentication and authorization, sharded tables, conversational search, faster HNSW builds, and improved faceting and aggregations.
- Upgrade notes: Auth changes access assumptions; replication storage layout changed; upgrade MCL library with daemon.
- Highlights: Built-in auth/authz supports users, passwords, tokens, and permissions; sharded tables ease write-heavy deployments; conversational search via CREATE CHAT MODEL and CALL CHAT.
- KNN improvements: Faster vector builds, multithreaded HNSW construction, local ONNX embeddings support.
- Faceting enhancements: facet_filter_mode for e-commerce filters, date_histogram with time_zone, percentiles, mad aggregations.
- Other improvements: searchd --check for config validation, EXIT CLUSTER for online node removal, dict=keywords_32k for long tokens, Ukrainian lemmatizer, systemd integration.
- Bug fixes: 65+ fixes, including crashes in KNN, replication, MySQL protocol compatibility, and columnar tables.