Pinecone Client
AI & LLMsThe Pinecone Python client
Release History
v8.0.0Breaking4 featuresVersion 8.x introduces dedicated read capacity configuration for serverless indexes and powerful new ways to query and update vectors using metadata filters. This release requires Python 3.10+ and introduces a breaking change regarding the default handling of the namespace parameter in GRPC methods.
v7.3.02 featuresThis minor release introduces the Admin API for managing projects and keys via REST, and adds namespace management capabilities to the gRPC client.
v7.2.01 fix2 featuresThis minor release introduces new RESTful methods for managing index namespaces and enables configuration of integrated embedding models for existing indexes.
v7.1.01 fixThis release resolves a bug where GRPC methods with `async_req=True` failed to respect user-defined timeouts, enforcing the correct timeout behavior.
v7.0.22 fixes1 featureThis release primarily addresses a Windows installation bug related to readline and corrects a packaging error for the Assistant functionality dependency.
v7.0.12 fixesThis is a small bugfix release addressing issues with autocompletion and restoring missing type information for Exception classes.
v7.0.01 fix7 featuresVersion 7.x introduces major new features like Pinecone Assistant, Inference API model discovery, Serverless Backups, and BYOC index management, alongside significant performance improvements. This release aligns with the underlying API moving to version 2025-04.
v6.0.21 fixThis minor release addresses a specific bug related to fetching sparse vectors via gRPC.
v6.0.11 fixThis release fixes an incompatibility issue between `pinecone` 6.0.0 and `pinecone-plugin-assistant` by restoring necessary internal attributes.
v6.0.0Breaking4 featuresThis release introduces major features including integrated inference indexing, direct Inference API access, and new asyncio client variants for modern asynchronous programming. Users of previous preview plugins must uninstall them.