# Meilisearch v1.53.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.53.0
- **Released:** Aug 10, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.53.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.53.0. Source highlight: Sharding for foreign filters

## New Features
- Adds `indexSize` and `usedIndexSize` returned by `GET /indexes/{index_uid}/stats` and in `GET /stats`

## Improvements
- Sharding for foreign filters
- The foreign filter now supports sharding by retrieving the documents through the network when evaluating the foreign filters and hydrating the documents.
- The limit of documents that a foreign filter can retrieve has been increased from 100 to 1000.

## Bug Fixes
- Fix code security issues in GitHub Actions workflows
- Bump peter-evans/repository-dispatch from 3.0.0 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6556