Change log

Features 🍹

#1724, #1757, #1835, #1816, #1836 - support for optional vectors.
- This feature allows to create points with only some of the vectors defined. Allows more granular control over data.
- Introduced two new API for managing vectors independently from payload. [Docs]
#1745 - Built-in API key authentication support. [Docs]
#1755, #1777 - Recovery mode for better handling Out-of-Disk and Out-of-Memory errors. [Docs]
#1774 - Cluster management API in gRPC.
#1808 - Add support for TLS certificate rotation
#1838 - Dynamic mmap vector storage. Allows to store vectors in mmap files right from the start, avoiding optimization step. [Docs]
#1602 - Nested object filter. Allows to filter by individual objects inside payload array. [Docs]
#1615 - Enables Product Quantization (PQ) for vectors. [Docs]
#1768 - Add Group-By API, allowing to group results by payload field. Useful for retrieving top results per group. [Docs]

#1677 - Memory optimization for full-text index
#1709 - Increase consensus ping timeout to prevent false positive channel drops
#1706 - Remove redundant telemetry values
#1696 - Improve error logging for gRPC endpoints
#1702, #1824 - Improve semantic for indexing_threshold in collection config
#1767 - Release binaries for different platforms along with docker images
#1776 - Embed default config file at compile time. Allows to run qdrant without an explicit config file
#1813 - Limit random ids generator to 53 bits to accommodate JS users
#1881 - Improve API validation
#1926 - Remove unused keep_alive_while_idle