# Meilisearch v1.24.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.24.0
- **Released:** Oct 20, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.24.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.24.0. Source highlight: This release features some improvements with the interaction of the vector store and the `searchCutoffMs` when using the `"vectorStore": "experimental"` index setting. It also introduces the metadata header `Meili-Include-Metadata` on the search request that adds a metadata field to the response. Th

## Improvements
- Improve the vector store search cutoff
- Improve compaction behaviors
- Search metadata