Meilisearch January updates
Jan 22, 2026Maya Shin
Summary
Introduced dynamic shard addition for horizontal scaling and flexibility in splitting indices across multiple instances. This allows scaling without re-architecting and maintains fast speeds via federated search. Also noted that replicated sharding is coming soon.
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