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Pinecone Client

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The Pinecone Python client

Latest: v8.0.010 releases2 breaking changesView on GitHub →

Release History

v8.0.0Breaking4 features
Nov 18, 2025

Version 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 features
Jun 27, 2025

This 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 features
Jun 18, 2025

This minor release introduces new RESTful methods for managing index namespaces and enables configuration of integrated embedding models for existing indexes.

v7.1.01 fix
Jun 16, 2025

This 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 feature
May 28, 2025

This release primarily addresses a Windows installation bug related to readline and corrects a packaging error for the Assistant functionality dependency.

v7.0.12 fixes
May 21, 2025

This is a small bugfix release addressing issues with autocompletion and restoring missing type information for Exception classes.

v7.0.01 fix7 features
May 20, 2025

Version 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 fix
Mar 13, 2025

This minor release addresses a specific bug related to fetching sparse vectors via gRPC.

v6.0.11 fix
Feb 21, 2025

This release fixes an incompatibility issue between `pinecone` 6.0.0 and `pinecone-plugin-assistant` by restoring necessary internal attributes.

v6.0.0Breaking4 features
Feb 7, 2025

This 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.