Meilisearch March updates
Mar 12, 2026Maya Shin

Summary
This post announces the integration of replicated sharding directly into the Meilisearch engine (v1.37.0), a significant step towards distributed, resilient search. This feature is currently available under the Enterprise edition, with one-click setup in the Cloud UI planned for the future. Additionally, it mentions improvements to the HNSW-backed vector store (Hannoy) and faster embedding updates in v1.38.0, along with fixes for remote embedders and task deletion.
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