# Meilisearch v1.38.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.38.0
- **Released:** Mar 09, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.38.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.38.0. Source highlight: Meilisearch v1.38 drastically improves indexing performance for embeddings, cleans up the task queue of orphan tasks and batches, ensures they are correctly deleted now, fixes issues users may encounter with OpenAI or VoyageAI when generating embeddings, and improves the tooling for generating route

## New Features
- Add guide to CONTRIBUTING.md to test doc locally

## Improvements
- Embeddings: Use the latest version of hannoy with improved performances
- Docs: improve documentation of the parameters of the search route

## Bug Fixes
- Tasks: Optimize and fix task deletion by @Mubelotix and @kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5828
- Embedders: Fix the intermittent `connection reset by peer` errors when embedding documents or search queries using a remote embedder.  By @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6191
- Chore: remove verbose debug log on list documents