- Adds new data types and deployment options: VARCHAR scalar, in‑memory replicas, embedded Milvus, Kafka (beta) and RESTful API (beta).
- Improves performance: search speed up to 3.2×, parallel binlog loading, ZSTD compression, and other load/search optimizations.
- Enhances security and observability: username/password/TLS authentication, safe connections to dependencies, expanded monitoring metrics and Ansible deployment support.