Release Notes - v1.0.8

Release Date: 2026-05-06
Changes: v1.0.8 → main

Summary

Cognee v1.0.8 focuses on stability, search relevance, and user workflows for managing memories. This release adds a couple of high-value user features, several performance and UX improvements, and multiple bug fixes that reduce duplicates and crashes for large memory sets.

Highlights

• New Memory Export and Snapshot features make backups and transfers easy.
• Search accuracy and performance significantly improved for large collections.
• Important stability fixes reduce duplicate memories and resolve crashes.
• Minor breaking change for self-hosted users: a mandatory database schema migration.

Breaking Changes

• Database schema update required for self-hosted deployments: v1.0.8 includes a mandatory schema migration. Before upgrading, run the provided migration tool or follow the upgrade steps in the docs. Failure to migrate will cause the application to fail to start.
• API response shape stabilization: Some memory-related API responses have been tightened. If you maintain custom integrations or client SDKs, please test them against v1.0.8 and update clients if they rely on previously lax response formats.

New Features

• Memory Export: Export all or selected memories as JSON or CSV for easy backups, sharing, or offline analysis.
• On-demand Snapshots: Create point-in-time snapshots of your memory store to preserve state before major changes or experiments.
• Scheduled Backups (UI): Set and manage automatic backups from the web UI so you can restore previous states without manual exports.

Improvements

• Search relevance and speed: Relevance ranking and indexing have been improved for faster, more accurate search results across large memory sets.
• Sync reliability: Background sync has been hardened to reduce missed updates and conflicts when multiple devices are active.
• UI refinements: Cleaner memory list display, clearer action buttons, and improved onboarding tooltips for first-time users.
• Performance: Reduced memory usage and faster load times when viewing large notebooks or memory lists.
• SDKs & APIs: Improved error messages and more consistent response shapes to make integrations more predictable.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue causing duplicate memories to appear after imports or retries.
• Resolved several crashes that occurred when loading very large memory collections.
• Fixed incorrect timestamps on imported memories so creation/modified times are preserved correctly.
• Fixed token refresh edge cases that caused unexpected logouts in long sessions.
• Miscellaneous UI bug fixes across the dashboard and settings pages.

Technical Changes

• Indexing refactor: Internal memory indexing engine refactored for performance and maintainability.
• Dependency upgrades: Several core dependencies were updated for security and performance.
• Dropped legacy runtimes: Older Node runtimes and unsupported platform builds were removed from the build matrix.
• Internal telemetry and logging enhanced to provide better operational visibility (no user data changes).

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