# Meilisearch v1.17.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.17.0
- **Released:** Aug 12, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.17.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.17.0. Source highlight: Want to make your search feel more natural? Try our new **chat completions** route and turn your queries into conversations. Easy to set up, works with your favorite LLMs.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- ⚠️ This fix leads to a breaking change on: `PUT` → `PATCH`. Integrations and SDKs will adapt to this change.

## Improvements
- Support Webhook API
- Optimize and stabalize performance the `STARTS_WITH` filter
- Docker image: sign container image using Cosign in keyless mode

## Bug Fixes
- Turn chat settings to `PATCH`
- Fix `snapshotCreation` task being included in snapshot
- Fix Rails CI
- Minor fix in PR template