# Meilisearch v1.6.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Meilisearch (https://meilisearch.com)
- **Version:** v1.6.0
- **Released:** Jan 15, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/meilisearch/updates/v1.6.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Meilisearch v1.6.0. Source highlight: Meilisearch v1.6 focuses on improving indexing performance. This new release also adds hybrid search and simplifies the process of generating embeddings for semantic search.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - `userProvided`: Compute embeddings manually and supply document vectors to Meilisearch. You may be familiar with this approach if you have used vector search in a previous Meilisearch release. Read further for details on breaking changes for user provided embeddings usage
- ⚠️ Vector search breaking changes If you have used vector search between v1.3.0 and v1.5.0, API usage has changed with v1.6:

## Improvements
- `huggingFace`: Meilisearch automatically downloads the specified `model` from HuggingFace and generates embeddings locally. This will use your CPU and may impact indexing performance
- `embedder` is the embedder you choose to perform the search among the ones you defined in your settings
- store and pre-compute less data than in previous versions
- re-index and delete only the necessary data when updating a document. For example, when you update one document field, Meilisearch will no longer re-index the whole document
- `byAttribute` only determines whether words are present in the same attribute. It is less accurate, but provides better performance.

## Bug Fixes
- Fix document formatting performances during search (#4313) @ManyTheFish
- The dump tasks are now cancellable (#4208) @irevoire
- Fix: the payload size limit is now also applied to all routes, not only routes to add and update documents (#4231) @Karribalu
- Fix: typo tolerance is ineffective for attributes with similar content (related issue: #4256)
- Fix: the geosort is no longer ignored after the first bucket of a preceding `sort` ranking rule (#4226)
- Fix hang on `/indexes` and `/stats` routes (#4308) @dureuill