v1.38.6

📅 Jul 21, 2026📦 weaviateView on GitHub →

✨ 4 features🐛 23 fixes🔧 37 symbols

Summary

This release introduces a new REST near-text search endpoint and improves search response envelopes. It also includes numerous performance enhancements and bug fixes across various modules, including replication, reindexing, and LSM KV storage.

✨ New Features

Envelope search response with {id, properties, references, metadata}.
REST near-text search endpoint POST /v1/search/{collection}/near-text.
Hybrid Diversity & MMR.
Unified background-process activity + duration metrics.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fold <=cutoff changes into the async-checkpoint bounded hashtree.
Do not load all lazy shards for property add.
Concurrent writes during migration converge into the new bucket.
Abort in-flight usage scan when its collection is dropped.
Do not load lazy loaded shards on backup restore.
Fail/retry reindex task on OnTaskCompleted schema-flip failure.
Mirror co-located props on batch-ref and delta writes.
Stop commit log churn flaking vector storage size test.
Backport to v1.36: fix flaky TestMakeUnboundedChannel_CapShrink.
REST search: camelCase payload fields; nested reserved rerank object.
Backport: fix(memberlist): retry on join with deadline.
Capture values in keyOnly map cursor so keys aren't dropped.
Don't fail startup when a single node can't join (self-heal).
Fix race in backup namespace test.
Join usage poll goroutines so they cannot assert after test completion.
Gate scheduler close tests on dispatch round-trips, not channel-buffer sampling.
ABBA deadlock between updateReplicationConfig and lazy shard load wedges RAFT FSM.
Namespace suspend RAFT states.
Fix stable/v1.37 build broken by the v1.36 merge (blockenc.PackedDecode).
Key the auth singleflight on the key, not just the user.
Fix RBAC regexp.
Namespace suspend: Check namespace status for DB Users.
HaltForTransfer overlap during concurrent COPY ops.

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