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Meilisearch April Updates

Your monthly dose of Meilisearch updates. April 2024 edition.

15 May 20242 min read
Laurent Cazanove
Laurent CazanoveDeveloper Experience Engineer@StriftCodes
Meilisearch April Updates

🪼 Announcing Meilisearch 1.8

Meilisearch 1.8 release notes

Meilisearch 1.8 brings negative keyword search, improvements to search robustness, and new embedders for AI search. It’s time to upgrade. 👇

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What's new in Meilisearch: v1.8, AI search updates, open source embedders, and more!

Join our product team as we dive into what our latest released features. You will learn more about the AI-powered search and get a sneak peek of what's coming soon. 👀

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🤝 OCTO customer story

Meilisearch is a partner of choice for OCTO Technology

This customer story discusses why OCTO Technology chose Meilisearch to answer its client's complex needs.

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💬 RFC: Query suggestions

We’re looking for feedback on our query suggestions proposal.

💡 Indexing best practicesll you need to know to speed up Meilisearch indexing.

🛍️ Adding site search to your Nuxt 3 ecommerceearn to build sorting, filtering, and faceted search in Vue & Nuxt apps.

🍿 Next.js hybrid search demo

Find where to stream movies in our hybrid search demo for Next.js.

🥰 Made with Meilisearch

Arvid Kahl is building Podscan.fm, a tool allowing users to subscribe to notifications when keywords are mentioned in podcasts. Meilisearch powers the app’s full-text search over 2.8 million episode transcripts.

Podscan.fm screenshot

We’re always looking to promote new projects from the community. Post yours in the #built-with-meilisearch Discord channel!

🏡 Life at Meili

Some Rust libraries are like oil and water, they just don't mix. Our very own @dureuill learnt that the hard way. Read on to learn about the "funny" bug he created while working on Meilisearch.

Amateur scientist creating a mess by mixing products

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Until next time!

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