# Meilisearch v1.56.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.56.1
- **Released:** Nov 02, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 4/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.56.1/

## 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.

## Improvements
- 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
- 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