🌈 Enhancements

New settings indexer

The new settings indexer, a more efficient version of our internal indexer for index settings modifications, now supports filterable, sortable, facet search, and custom (asc/desc) attributes in addition to the already-supported searchable, exact, proximity precision, and embedders.

• For Meilisearch Cloud users, the new settings indexer is disabled by default and can be enabled on a case-by-case basis for scaling purposes.
• For OSS users, the new settings indexer can be disabled by setting the MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_NO_EDITION_2024_FOR_SETTINGS to true.

By @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6124

Improve facet search indexing performance

We reduced the time to generate the internal data structures for the facet search to work. We were previously doing a couple of full scans on the internal entries and replaced these with scans on specific entries, only the ones dedicated to the facet searchable fields.

By @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6325

Improve task queue compaction integration

The GET /health route now returns HTTP 500 after a successful task queue compaction, to signal that Meilisearch should be restarted so that tasks can be enqueued again.

For Meilisearch Cloud users, this ensures that compacting the task queue will automatically restart the instance after the compaction.

🦋 Fixes

Fix lexicographic filters on strings

Fixes a bug where string facet values appearing in <, <=, >, >= and IN filters were not normalized before comparison to facet values.

This would cause some values in documents (e.g. 2026-01-01T00:00:00) to appear to be higher than their filter counterpart, due to being normalized (e.g. like 2026-01-01t00:00:00).

Thanks to @njaard for reporting the issue ❤️

By @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6340

Fix typo tolerance v1.41 regression

Fixes the WordDelta::added_or_deleted_words function.

By @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6350.

Thanks to @vladradin99 and @snurfer0 for reporting the issue in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/issues/6349 and https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/issues/6324 :heart:

🔩 Miscellaneous

• Introduce a meilitool command to export an index words FST by @Kerollmops in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6332
• Add riscv64 to release binary matrix via cross-rs by @gounthar in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6296
• Fix docs related to task cancelation and deletion by @curquiza in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6353
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6303
• Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5964
• Bump thin-vec from 0.2.14 to 0.2.16 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6339
• Bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 3 to 4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6304
• Bump rustls-webpki from 0.103.10 to 0.103.13 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6347
• Bump actix-http from 3.11.2 to 3.12.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6348
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.10.0 to 4.1.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6301
• Bump supercharge/mongodb-github-action from 1.12.0 to 1.12.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6302

Thanks again @gounthar, @njaard, @vladradin99 and @snurfer0 for your contributions ❤️

Full Changelog: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/compare/v1.42.1...v1.43.0