- Added mmap support for HNSW graph storage and enabled gRPC compression, reducing RAM usage and network overhead.
- Introduced probabilistic search sampling and cache‑friendly HNSW link storage, improving search speed, memory usage and startup time; also sped up cluster info API response.
- Fixed multiple stability issues including consensus thread deadlock, incorrect shard activation during snapshot recovery, proxy segment panic, shutdown on removing failed collections, and snapshot creation blocking.