# Meilisearch v1.42.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.42.1
- **Released:** Apr 14, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.42.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.42.1. Source highlight: Fix issues when using the legacy settings indexer

## New Features
- Add new CI run that tests the stable settings indexer

## Bug Fixes
- When using the experimental feature "multimodal", removing a fragment would cause an internal error in subsequent search requests
- When using the experimental feature "multimodal", modifying fragments would sometimes cause an internal error at indexing time
- `regenerate: false` would be ignored when modifying embedder settings
- When a nested field was declared as searchable, it would not be indexed if its parents were not declared as searchable