<!channel> v28.0 of Typesense Server is now generally available 🎉 Some key highlights: ✅ Union feature lets you merge multi_search results ✅ Dictionary-base stemming ✅ Sort by random order, decay functions, around a pivot value ✅ Ability to set fixed bucket sizes for text_match tie breaking ✅ New Geo polygon data type for geo search ✅ Faceting performance improvements ✅ Several improvements to JOIN-related features. Here's the full changelog: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/releases/tag/v28.0 As usual, a big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas, questions, feedback and code to this release! 🙌

Awesome work guys, thanks!

very nice update! 💪

Some useful stuff in there, thanks!

can updates be down in place with no downtime?

you're great folks!, just needed some features you've added! :)

Great to hear that! 🙌

yes i have HA! thanks for clarification. i'll update now. 🙂

Do you have more details on the faceting performance improvements? On the link above it isn't more specific than that.

In some synthetic benchmarks we did, we saw a 20-25% improvement in

search_time_ms

for queries that used

facet_by

at high concurrency

In some situations we have to force exhaustive strategy (reduces query time from 5 seconds to 500 ms). Should we re-evaluate that in V28?

Exhaustive search is always going to be expensive, because it does a bunch of things that you might not necessarily need. In many cases, just increasing max_candidates to a high value solves the issue

Thanks for adding the sorting around a pivot value! This will greatly simplify the use-case we suggested it for now 😁