# Meilisearch v1.41.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.41.0
- **Released:** Mar 30, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.41.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.41.0. Source highlight: **Support dynamic search rules with pinning**

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This release contains [**breaking changes**](#search-requests-breaking-changes) for users of the `network` experimental feature.
- Breaking changes When `network.leader` is set in the instance, `useNetwork` now defaults to `true` in search requests when omitted.

## Improvements
- **Support dynamic search rules with pinning**
- **Default to `useNetwork: true` in sharded instances by** @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6278

## Bug Fixes
- Handle empty VERSION file as missing