Our Launch Week just wrapped up đŸ”„ See the full release

Go to homeMeilisearch's logo
Back to articles

Meilisearch February updates

28 Feb 20242 min read
Laurent Cazanove
Laurent CazanoveDeveloper Experience Engineer@StriftCodes
Meilisearch February updates

đŸ„ł Join our launch event

Meilisearch product update: AI-powered hybrid search, monitoring, and more. Thursday, March 7th 4PM CET | 3PM GMT | 10AM EST

Join us on March 7th to discuss our recent releases and get a sneak peak of what’s coming on Meilisearch Cloud. Spoilers—hybrid search, new embedding models, GPU support, and more. đŸ€«

Register

đŸ€” Vector embeddings, explained

Vector embeddings

Wondering what are vector embeddings? What is the semantic space? How is it relevant for search? Our very own @CarolainFG dug deep into the matter to create this high-level educational piece.

Read blog post

🚀 Upgrade to 1.6

Meilisearch 1.6 release notes

We released Meilisearch 1.6 in January. Upgrade to benefit from hybrid search, indexing speed improvements, and further customization of proximity ranking rule. It’s time to upgrade. 👇

[Read release notes](/blog/meilisearch-1-6/utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=february-updates-24


💡 Indexing best practices

All our tips to index data efficiently and speed up the indexing process.

🔄 Syncing with your Postgres database

Learn how to keep your Meilisearch in sync with a Postgres database.

🐬 Add search to your Appwrite application

Learn how to add a search function to your Appwrite application.

🐇 Meilisearch v1.7 release candidate

Get a preview of what’s coming next (and give your feedback!)

🟧 Laravel Scout guide

Learn how to use Meilisearch in your Laravel 10 application.


đŸ„° Made with Meilisearch

Rerun.io added a search bar to allow users to search through all their documentation and SDKs API references. The site is built with React and uses Analytics to allow them to improve the docs content.

rerun.io search interface

rerun.io

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

đŸ€“ Life at Meili

Our engineer @dureuill wrote about how dynamic management of virtual memory enabled us to remove limitations in Meilisearch indexing policy. Attention, this one is technical.

Squeezing millions of documents in only 128 TB of virtual memory

Read blog post

🩾 We're hiring!

See our open positions:

Launch Week wrap-up: everything that shipped in five days, April 2026

Launch Week wrap-up: everything that shipped in five days, April 2026

Everything from Meilisearch Launch Week, in one place. Five days, every release, who it's for.

Maya Shin
Maya Shin20 Apr 2026
Conversational search, out of the box: Meilisearch Chat in Cloud UI

Conversational search, out of the box: Meilisearch Chat in Cloud UI

Meilisearch Cloud now ships a built-in chat UI. Select an index, get an auto-generated system prompt, guardrails, and an inspector tab to debug - no separate AI pipeline required.

Maya Shin
Maya Shin15 Apr 2026
Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud

Scale without limits: introducing sharding & replication in Meilisearch Cloud

Meilisearch Cloud now supports sharding and replication - letting your search infrastructure scale horizontally, stay available during updates, and serve users from the nearest node. Here is what that means and who it is for.

Maya Shin
Maya Shin13 Apr 2026