weaviate

v1.36.16 Breaking

This release includes breaking changes for platform teams planning a safe upgrade.

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Topics

approximate-nearest-neighbor-search generative-search grpc hnsw hybrid-search image-search

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information-retrieval mlops nearest-neighbor-search neural-search recommender-system search-engine semantic-search semantic-search-engine similarity-search vector-db vector-search-engine vectors weaviate

Summary

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Updates New Features none, Breaking Changes none, and fix across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Bugfix
Bugfix	High	Fix panic in HNSW findNewEntryPoint function Fix panic in HNSW findNewEntryPoint function Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-27 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Increase SSB memlimit threshold from 80% to 90% Increase SSB memlimit threshold from 80% to 90% Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-27 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Fix flaky tests TestReplicationAbort/Error and DecodeResponse Fix flaky tests TestReplicationAbort/Error and DecodeResponse Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-27 Confidence: high	—

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Breaking Changes

none

New Features

none

Fixes

Increase SSB memlimit threshold from 80% to 90% by @tsmith023 in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/10660
fix: deflake TestReplicationAbort/Error and /DecodeResponse by @moogacs in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11421
Fix/hnsw findnewentrypoint panic by @abdelr in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11151

Full Changelog: https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/compare/v1.36.15...v1.36.16

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About weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database.

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