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Meilisearch v1.56.1stable Released Nov 02, 2026
Impact Score: 4/10

Meilisearch: v1.56.1 🐫

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⚡ Improvements 3 🔧 Bug Fixes 2
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Meilisearch v1.56.1 delivers key security and stability fixes, addressing high memory usage during long filter execution and rustls dependencies. It also resolves runtime panics associated with modifying searchable attributes after updating nested document fields.

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Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

💻 Software Engineers & Devs

Developers using nested attributes or complex filtering logic should upgrade to avoid engine panics and invalid ranking scores greater than 1.

📊 Product & Engineering Leads

This patch stability release maintains service reliability without changing customer-facing features or query APIs.

⚙️ DevOps & Security

DevOps engineers managing Meilisearch instances, especially v1.56.0, should schedule a routine deployment to apply security and memory usage fixes.

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (3)

  • Reduced memory consumption and execution runtime for long filters
  • Clamped map_size to page size when removing tasks during snapshot creation
  • Updated rustls dependency from 0.23.45 to 0.23.46

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)

  • Fixed an issue resulting in ranking scores greater than 1
  • Fixed a panic triggered when modifying searchable attributes after adding new nested fields to an existing document
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
Meilisearch v1.56.1 introduces important security fixes. Updating from v1.56.0 is recommended for all users. # 🦋 Fixes * Fix issue with ranking scores greater than 1 by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6703 * Make sure that all nested fields are inserted in field id map by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6700 - Fixes a panic when modifying the list of searchable attributes after an existing document has been updated to insert new nested fields. - Existing databases encountering this issue can be fixed by adding a new document containing the new nested fields. - Fixes #6636 and fixes #6657 # 🔒 Security - Fix the memory consumption and runtime of long filters by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6695 - Bump rustls from 0.23.45 to 0.23.46 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6706 # 🔩 Miscellaneous - Clamp map_size to page size when removing tasks during snapshot creation by @mavrodikomsd-eng in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6699 - Reduce the number of cargo flaky iterations to 60 by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6689 - Fix Debian CI by @curquiza in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6698 - Bump mislav/bump-homebrew-formula-action from 3.6 to 4.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6567 - Bump actions/setup-node from 6.5.0 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6569 - Bump actions/setup-python from 6.3.0 to 7.1.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6570 * Bump actions/checkout from 5.1.0 to 7.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6568 ## New Contributors * @mavrodikomsd-eng made their first contribution in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6699 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/compare/v1.56.0...v1.56.1
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