Qdrant 1.13.0 release notes, 17 Jan 2025

Change log

Features 🎨

milestone/18 - Add GPU support for HNSW super fast indexing
milestone/3 - Add resharding in our cloud offering, change the number of shards at runtime
milestone/13 - Add strict mode to restrict certain type of operations on collections
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5303 - Add Has Vector filtering condition, check if a named vector is present on a point

Improvements 🚀

https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5783 - Switch to mmap storage for payloads by default to make it more efficient, eliminating unexpected latency spikes
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5784 - Switch to mmap storage for sparse vectors to make it more efficient, allowing better resource management
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5781 - Compress HNSW graph links
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5796 - Remove peer metadata for removed peers
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5634 - Allow to set max_optimization_threads back to automatic
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5178 - Stream snapshots in snapshot transfer, don't put snapshots on disk first

Bug fixes 💢

https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5810 - Fix incorrect validation rules on deleted threshold in gRPC API
https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/5808 - Don't allow conflicting names for dense and sparse vectors

Thanks to @gulshan-rs @ashwantmanikoth @kartik-gupta-ij @palash25 @redouan-rhazouani @weiwch @n0x29a @pedjak @agourlay @xzfc @JojiiOfficial @tellet-q @coszio @ffuugoo @KShivendu @joein @IvanPleshkov @generall @timvisee for their contributions!