# Meilisearch v1.13.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.13.0
- **Released:** Feb 17, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.13.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.13.0. Source highlight: Meilisearch v1.13 stabilizes AI-powered search integration! 🎉 This release also introduces two new experimental features: upgrading to new Meilisearch releases without generating a dump and making federated requests across multiple Meilisearch instances.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- Breaking Changes * `vectorStore` is no longer an accepted value for the `/experimental-features` route

## New Features
- `vectorStore` is no longer an accepted value for the `/experimental-features` route
- Add Prometheus metrics to measure task queue latency
- Add support for `GITHUB_TOKEN` authentication in installation script
- Introduce a compaction subcommand in meilitool

## Improvements
- Improve task auto-batching by exposing a way to limit the total size of a batch
- Speed up the request to list indexes
- Expose a new `usedDatabaseSize` field on the `/stats` route
- Expose embeddings info on the `/stats` route
- Improve test performance of get_index.rs
- Improve unexpected panic message

## Bug Fixes
- Improve error message when an attribute is not filterable
- Make sure indexing embeddings is using the right number of threads
- Dumpless upgrade will no longer corrupt the database in case of early stop
- Fix export/import dump that contains batches data
- Make sure indexing geo points works with PUT requests
- Add back semantic search timeout from v1.11.3