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v1.37.5 Breaking

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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

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This release adds automation scripts for releases and introduces several vector‑indexing enhancements.

Why it matters: Automation scripts (create_release.sh, release.sh) streamline release workflows; vector index compression control improves storage efficiency. Severity scores: feature additions at 20–40.

Summary

AI summary

Updates New Features, chore, and feat across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Feature
Feature	Medium	Adds validation for reserved property name suffixes in schema. Adds validation for reserved property name suffixes in schema. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Supports named vectors in the default vector index. Supports named vectors in the default vector index. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Adds vector index compression allow‑lists for control over compression. Adds vector index compression allow‑lists for control over compression. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Adds create_release.sh script for release automation. Adds create_release.sh script for release automation. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Adds release.sh driver to facilitate releases. Adds release.sh driver to facilitate releases. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Low	Introduces text2vec-digitalocean module for vectorization. Introduces text2vec-digitalocean module for vectorization. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix
Bugfix	Medium	Fixes backup shardCreateLocks scope to unblock queries during snapshots. Fixes backup shardCreateLocks scope to unblock queries during snapshots. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Cherry‑picks fix to prevent backups from blocking during compactions. Cherry‑picks fix to prevent backups from blocking during compactions. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Low	Removes flakiness in bucket threshold tests for lsmkv. Removes flakiness in bucket threshold tests for lsmkv. Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Low	Removes release.sh script (now obsolete). Removes release.sh script (now obsolete). Source: llm_adapter@2026-05-26 Confidence: low	—
Bugfix	Low	Fixes trigger behavior in queue component. Fixes trigger behavior in queue component. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-05-26-audit Confidence: low	—
Bugfix	Low	Skips not found errors on AllBackups for backup-gcs. Skips not found errors on AllBackups for backup-gcs. Source: granite4.1:30b@2026-05-26-audit Confidence: low	—

Full changelog

Breaking changes

none

New Features

feat: create simple create_release.sh script by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11301
tools/dev: add release.sh release driver by @mpartipilo in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11241
feat(schema): add validation for reserved property name suffixes by @amourao in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11122
Support named vectors in default vector index by @trengrj in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11364
feat: vector index + compression allow-lists by @etiennedi in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11313
modules: new text2vec-digitalocean module by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11318

Fixes

fix(backup): narrow shardCreateLocks scope to unblock queries during snapshot (#234) by @etiennedi in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11349
fix(lsmkv): remove flakiness in bucket threshold tests via synctest by @aliszka in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11343
chore: remove release.sh script by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11367
chore: modify create_release.sh script output by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11368
chore: adjust text2vec-google batch logic by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11279
Cherry pick fix to backups blocking during compactions by @tsmith023 in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11359
release: add QA option to create_release.sh script by @antas-marcin in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11314
queue: fix trigger behavior by @asdine in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11379
fix(backup-gcs): skip not found errors on AllBackups by @gkampitakis in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11389
Backport hfresh task priorities by @asdine in https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/pull/11408

Full Changelog: https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/compare/v1.37.4...v1.37.5

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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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