# Meilisearch v1.56.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.56.0
- **Released:** Oct 26, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.56.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.56.0. Source highlight: Introduce `sampledCount` to compute the facet distribution

## New Features
- Introduce `sampledCount` to compute the facet distribution

## Improvements
- Give up indexing when the embedder can't handle the load
- An adaptive strategy for rate limiting: For small usage with few documents, we accept a slow embedder service, and for big usage with updates containing thousands of documents, Meilisearch will give up early
- A better outage handling, where Meilisearch will give up early if the embedder server is unavailable for too long
- Support the `Retry-After` header when the value is in seconds, avoiding useless retries in a short timespan
- Optimization of general search performance
- Improve code correctness by using the latest version of heed

## Bug Fixes
- Fix wrong binary quantization state after deleting embedders
- Fix empty request body section in the settings API reference