- Universal query API adds hybrid search, multi‑stage queries, multivector and float16/uint8 support for dense and sparse vectors, plus IDF handling for sparse vectors.
- New S3‑compatible snapshot storage, default collection parameter presets, per‑collection optimizer overrides, and issue‑reporting diagnostics for performance problems.
- Improvements such as compression and delta‑encoding for sparse vectors, reduced response payloads, plus bug fixes for discovery‑API id exclusion and storage corruption on hard shutdown.