- Added new capabilities including MinIO TLS support, AutoIndex for scalar fields, hybrid search refactoring, bitset‑based filtering acceleration, and enhanced import task handling with waiting and size limits.
- Improved observability with multiple new metrics (QueryCoord lag, DB label, entity counts) and performed extensive code and interface simplifications.
- Breaking changes: discontinued grouping search on binary vectors and with hybrid search, and removed HNSW index support for binary vectors; includes numerous bug fixes and a security update for the NATS server.