Release Notes - v0.5.8rc1

Release Date: 2026-04-08
Changes: v0.5.8rc1 → feat/sales-benchmark-demo

Summary

Release candidate 0.5.8rc1 introduces the new Sales Benchmark Demo (preview) and a set of relevancy, ingestion, and stability improvements aimed at making memory-driven workflows easier to test and evaluate. This RC focuses on user-facing demo functionality, faster and more accurate memory retrieval, and a handful of bug fixes and internal improvements to prepare for general availability.

Highlights

• Sales Benchmark Demo (preview): an end-to-end example to evaluate Cognee's memory and retrieval on sales-related data.
• Improved memory ingestion and retrieval accuracy for more relevant results and faster query responses.
• New demo dashboard and sample prompts to accelerate onboarding and evaluation.
• Stability and performance fixes for ingestion, sync, and API responsiveness.

Breaking Changes

• No breaking changes in this release candidate. Existing integrations and APIs remain compatible. If you are using beta or internal endpoints, continue as before — no action required.

New Features

• Sales Benchmark Demo (preview) — A guided demo that shows how to ingest sales data, run benchmarking queries, and evaluate retrieval relevance. Ideal for teams who want a hands-on example of Cognee in a sales context.
• Demo dashboard and example prompts — A simple UI and ready-made prompts to help you explore the demo quickly and reproduce sample workflows without building queries from scratch.
• Benchmark ingestion pipeline — A pre-configured ingestion path that demonstrates best practices for structuring sales records and metadata to get the best retrieval results.

Improvements

• Faster and more accurate retrieval — Relevance ranking and indexing have been tuned to return more useful memory results for typical sales queries, reducing noise in answers.
• Improved ingestion robustness — Better error handling and retry behavior during bulk imports to reduce failed records and partial ingestion states.
• Long-context handling — Memory retrieval is more resilient when prompts include longer context windows, reducing truncation-related mismatches.
• Cleaner onboarding experience — Example prompts, improved demo walkthrough, and clearer UI copy to help new users get up and running faster.
• API ergonomics — Subtle improvements to response payloads and pagination to make programmatic consumption smoother.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an intermittent race condition during concurrent ingestion that could cause duplicated or missing records.
• Resolved a UI layout glitch in the demo dashboard that caused truncated text in certain browser sizes.
• Fixed pagination edge-case in the API that could return an empty page when results spanned multiple pages.
• Addressed a memory sync issue where recently added items might not be immediately available to very recent queries.

Technical Changes

• Refactored parts of the memory indexing core to simplify future feature development and improve maintainability.
• Upgraded several internal dependencies and improved test coverage around ingestion and retrieval logic.
• Internal logging and telemetry enhancements to make it easier to investigate ingestion and retrieval issues during the demo.

Generated by Cognee Release Notes Generator on 2026-04-08