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v0.2.1

18 Mar 05:53
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🚀 Zvec v0.2.1 Release Notes

A feature-rich update focused on build and CI improvements, platform expansion, performance optimization, and developer ecosystem enhancements.


📦 Core Features & Improvements

  • Added support for Jina Embeddings v5 integration (#156)
  • Added custom HTTP embedding example for LM Studio / Ollama (#149)
  • Added Python API function overloads for improved usability (#197)
  • Added support for Python 3.13 and 3.14 (#164)
  • Added support for Android cross-platform builds (#90)
  • Enabled Ice Lake optimization and L2 batch distance for int8 quantization (#213)
  • Increased index size limit for sparse vectors (#229)

⚡ Performance & Build Optimization

  • Optimized IVF implementation for better stability and performance (#169)
  • Reorganized architecture-specific -march handling for cleaner build behavior (#193)
  • Disabled RocksDB -march=native to improve build portability (#183)
  • Improved default source build behavior around -march=native (#184)
  • Automatically disabled math march optimization when CPU features cannot be detected (#220)
  • Replaced std::map with std::unordered_map for key_id_mapping (#153)
  • Accelerated third-party dependency downloads via OSS mirror support (#194)
  • Added configurable Clang stdlib support and improved default build behavior (#210)
  • Fixed subproject build issues by replacing CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR with PROJECT_ROOT_DIR (#195)

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Updated ANTLR4 CMAKE_POLICY from OLD to NEW for compatibility with CMake 3.31+ (#145)
  • Improved MSVC compatibility and stack safety by replacing VLAs with std::vector (#190)
  • Fixed uint8 conversion overflow issue (#215)
  • Fixed compilation issues in several build environments (#218)
  • Fixed crash residue cleanup logic (#208)
  • Added a new validator for cosine metric handling (#209)
  • Fixed MIPS Euclidean distance implementation (#226)
  • Replaced std::vector with std::array in distance implementation where appropriate (#201)
  • Switched to static array usage in related low-level logic (#222)
  • Fixed query filtering behavior to use per-block filter instead of per-segment filter (#223)
  • Fixed unit tests for sparse builder dump timing (#237)
  • Fixed random float behavior in unit tests (#182)
  • Fixed compilation warning in crash recovery unit tests (#217)

🔧 Developer Experience

  • Added installation instructions for the Node.js package (#103)
  • Added package repository links for easier dependency access (#104)
  • Improved README and CONTRIBUTING documentation, including repository URL, align attribute typo, Python version notes, and join-us section updates (#139, #150, #168, #231)
  • Added project badges and trend badge updates (#132, #228)
  • Added recall-related test improvements (#196)
  • Fixed minor typos in documentation and code comments (#225)

🤖 CI/CD & Tooling

  • Added macOS CI with GitHub runner support (#94)
  • Added CI workflow using GitHub-hosted runners (#171)
  • Added buildwheel support in GitHub runner workflows (#221)
  • Added continuous benchmarking support (#110)
  • Added Dependabot for automated dependency updates (#181)
  • Upgraded GitHub Actions for Node 24 compatibility and to latest versions (#129, #130)
  • Updated workflow Python version to 3.10 (#186)
  • Fixed main CI workflow to correctly trigger beyond Linux x64 only (#187)
  • Bumped GitHub Actions dependencies:
    • actions/setup-java v4 → v5 (#202)
    • actions/checkout v4 → v6 (#203)
    • actions/cache v3 → v5 (#204)
  • Improved conventional pre-commit integration and upgraded to latest version (#111)

👋 New Contributors

Thanks to all first-time contributors in this release:


Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1
Upgrade Recommendation: ✅ Recommended for all users — especially for those who need broader platform support, improved build compatibility, and CI/tooling enhancements.

v0.2.0

13 Feb 02:01
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🚀 Zvec v0.2.0 Release Notes

A major update focused on optimization, platform expansion, and developer experience improvements.


📦 Core Features & Improvements

  • Support AI extension framework for on-device embedding workflows (#88)
  • Auto-scalable segment metadata in MMap storage files (#67)
  • Unified search invocation interface in core (#15)
  • Linux ARM64 build support (#71)
  • Silent failure on repeated initialization attempts (#79)

🐞 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed delete_by_filter logic using key instead of index (#84, #87)
  • Corrected quantized int unit tests (#47)
  • Removed unnecessary column_name param from AddColumn API (#59)
  • Fixed typos in HNSW index implementation (#50)
  • Removed redundant error expectations in tests (#82)
  • Cleaned up unused ailego module (#85)

🔧 Developer Experience

  • Replaced typing_extensions with standard typing (Python ≥3.10) (#99)
  • Improved C++ error logging via LOG_ERROR instead of cerr (#80)
  • Updated docstrings and .pyi stubs for Python bindings (#41)
  • Removed obsolete IndexMeta::MetricType definition (#53)
  • Added C++ examples to macOS/Linux CI matrix (#86)

🤖 CI/CD & Tooling

  • Support CI runs for forked PRs (#52)
  • Skip CI on Markdown-only changes (#55)
  • Added issue templates for better community support (#46)
  • Updated CMake minimum version requirement (#44, #57)
  • Bench tool documentation refresh (#77)

📚 Documentation

  • Updated README badges and join-us section (#45, #54)

👋 New Contributors


Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0
Upgrade Recommendation: ✅ Recommended for all users — includes critical performance and stability improvements.

v0.1.1

27 Jan 12:22
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Breaking Changes

Rebuild Required: After updating to this version, all indexes must be rebuilt.

  • refactor: clarify HNSW 'm' as max neighbors of upper layer by @JalinWang in #12
  • refactor: set HNSW 'scaling_factor' default to 'm' instead of 50 by @iaojnh in #17
  • refactor: flat param string cleanup by @JalinWang in #28
  • fix: flat support more segments by @JalinWang in #32

What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

31 Dec 10:55
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What's Changed

  • minor: update readme by @zhourrr in #2
  • chore:add git commit msg and branch name in pre-commit and modify org by @Cuiyus in #1
  • feat(core): support cpu flag detect & dispatch by @feihongxu0824 in #3
  • chore(cmake): auto detect cpu arch flag in cmake and rm redundant option by @feihongxu0824 in #5
  • chore: release to pypi by @Cuiyus in #6
  • chore: add pypi badge by @Cuiyus in #7

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/alibaba/zvec/commits/v0.1.0