1.8.0

Change log

Features 📅

• Add ability to order Scroll API results by payload value - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3493, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3533, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3562, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3540, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3589, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3726
• Add date time payload index to efficiently filter by date time ranges - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3395, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3516, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3549, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3578, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3622, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3729, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3730
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3472 - Add API to check if a collection exists
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3466 - Allow specifying a minimum number of conditions to match in payload filters
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3548 - Improve set_payload API, adds ability to modify nested fields

Improvements 🏎️

• Sparse vector search performance improvements, making it 16x faster - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3464, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3275, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3327, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3348, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3347, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3368, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3393, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3413, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3424, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3527, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3560, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3609, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3619, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3605
• Improve CPU saturation, greatly speeding up indexing on high CPU systems - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3364, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3115
• Improve various payload indices
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3497 - Reduce memory usage for the text index
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3297 - Reduce memory usage for geo index
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3625 - Improve loading time for test field index
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3563 - Compress text index, greatly improving tail latencies and memory usage
• Add new release artifacts to support more platforms
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3342 - MUSL binaries for x86_64 and AArch64
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3343 - Portable AppImage binary
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3344 - Debian package with *.deb archive
• Avoid re-indexing point if fields without an index are updated - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3611
• Refactor payload key parsing - https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3674, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3697, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3709
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3367 - Ensure consistency when an update request is dropped in the middle
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3525 - Optimize MatchAny performance with a large number of values
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3629, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3633, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3641 - Performance optimizations for empty payloads
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/2840, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3381 - Add a checksum for snapshot files
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3374 - Improve "loss" function for discovery search
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3255 - Add config property to set default shard transfer method
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3380 - Add ability to selectively disable the range or lookup index for integer payloads to save memory
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3555 - Report progress of ongoing shard transfers
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3311 - Also report collection recovery progress in non-interactive terminals
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3235 - Set custom thread priorities on Linux for better scheduling
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3257, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3313 - Avoid logging of health and metrics APIs in access log
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3418 - Report the timestamp of last seen error in cluster, helpful for debugging
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3419 - Expose the git commit hash of the build at the root endpoint
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3498 - Allow loading of segments to be stopped in the middle if cancelled
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3552 - Expose request timing histogram for Prometheus in metrics endpoint
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3581 - Report version in logs on startup

Bug fixes 🔂

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3386 - Fix multiple vector updates on same point in batch not working
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3512 - Expose discover endpoint statistics in the metrics
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3544 - Fix some REST endpoints not being usable with read-only API key
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3592 - Fix internal proxy always forwarding successful requests three times
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3423 - Return better suited status codes in the gRPC API
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3387 - Disable large limit optimization for plain indices
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3557, https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3565 - Properly configure RocksDB options on all column families, reducing memory usage
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3580 - Fix reading vector data out of bounds
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3608 - Fix a potential zero division error in geo filter queries
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/3623 - Security patch for snapshot upload file name

Dashboard 🍱

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-web-ui/pull/153 - Add snapshots for demo collections
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-web-ui/pull/156 - Auto-complete required fields when inserting commands
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-web-ui/pull/155 - Add button to delete points
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-web-ui/pull/134 - Visualize discovery scores
• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-web-ui/pull/160 - Fix vector visualisation with optional named vectors
• Other changes

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