PyMilvus 2.5.0 Release Notes

New features:

• Report cost in the dml and dql request by @SimFG in #2055
• feat: Support major compaction in ManualCompaction by @wayblink in #2015
• Support Milvus Lite by @junjiejiangjjj in #2073
• Enable set_properties and describe_database api by @weiliu1031 in #2082
• Allowing search iterator on sparse float vector field by @zhengbuqian in #2104
• Accept list of single row scipy.sparse object as input for insert/search by @zhengbuqian in #2111
• Support float16/bfloat16/sparse vector for bulkwriter by @yhmo in #2127
• Support group_size parameter for search_group_by by @MrPresent-Han in #2130
• Upsert support autoid by @smellthemoon in #2173
• Expose reduce_stop_for_best to users(#2181) by @MrPresent-Han in #2183
• Bulkinsert supports importing binlog by @yhmo in #2222
• Add page_retain_order param during search with offset by @PwzXxm in #2229
• Support load with Field Partial load by @congqixia in #2228
• Support null and default value by @smellthemoon in #2234
• Support the mmap_enable param in the field schema by @SimFG in #2238
• Add strict_group_size and rank_group_scorer for hybrid_search(#2253) by @MrPresent-Han in #2254
• Load configuration without altering the environment by @laipz8200 in #2192
• Update proto to get is_sorted field for GetQuerySegmentInfo by @xiaocai2333 in #2280
• Support mvcc and break-down-continue for iterator(#2278) by @MrPresent-Han in #2279
• Support new Function feature by @zhengbuqian in #2257
• Supports filling elements through templates for expression by @xiaocai2333 in #2317
• Add compact, get_server_version and flush api by @czs007 in #2326

Enhancements

• Upgrade the bulkWriter cloud API call from v1 to v2 by @lentitude2tk in #2245
• enhance: tidy dependencies in tests by @XuanYang-cn in #1996
• Update sparse+dense hybrid search example by @zhengbuqian in #2005
• Support UDS by @junjiejiangjjj in #2023
• enhance: Update hello_hybrid_sparse_dense.py example to include BGE reranker by @zhengbuqian in #2028
• enhance: add resource group declarative api by @chyezh in #2002
• enhance: Make bulk_writer's requirments optional by @XuanYang-cn in #2086
• Added grpc as a valid protocol for uri by @brunocfnba in #2090
• enhance: print search result more elegantly by @longjiquan in #2123
• enhance: Check PyMilvus on Windows platform by @XuanYang-cn in #2136
• Export indexed rows for describe_index by @xiaocai2333 in #2148
• Add database operations to MilvusClient by @ashkrisk in #2152
• enhance: enable setting properties during create database by @weiliu1031 in #2168
• enhance: hide zero values when printing by @SimFG in #2200
• enhance: use info level for retry message by @XuanYang-cn in #2212
• enhance: Make load parameter naming normal by @congqixia in #2243
• enhance: add bitmap index example by @zhagnlu in #2376

Bug fixes

• fix: Remove np.view for floatvector by @XuanYang-cn in #2048
• fix: pass offset parameter for hybrid search to server by @czs007 in #2051
• Change sparse related errors to ParamError by @zhengbuqian in #2066
• modified example_tls1.py through MilvusClient by @nish112022 in #2065
• remove scipy dependency for sparse while still supporting scipy sparse matrix by @zhengbuqian in #2074
• modified example_tls2.py through MilvusClient by @nish112022 in #2077
• fix sparse: accpet int/float wrapped in string by @zhengbuqian in #2094
• enhance: Expand grpcio version to latest by @XuanYang-cn in #2093
• fix the str function of the extra list by @SimFG in #2099
• fix: wrong expr handling due to and/or priorities(#2113) by @MrPresent-Han in #2114
• fix: use the existed index_name by @smellthemoon in #2107
• change the load status check interval to 0.2s by @SimFG in #2121
• Fix a bug of bulkwriter by @yhmo in #2133
• feat: disable installation of milvus-lite on windows platform (#2131) by @Raysilience in #2134
• enhance: update milvus-proto and correct index.drop() by @XuanYang-cn in #2142
• enhance: Update readme to the latest by @XuanYang-cn in #2146
• Refine the error message for type mismatches during data insertion by @xiaocai2333 in #2156
• fix: Coding style by latest ruff by @XuanYang-cn in #2159
• enhance: Remove the logic to set replica_number=1 by default by @weiliu1031 in #2163
• fix: Edit setuptools upper version for py380 by @XuanYang-cn in #2182
• Fix comment in iterator implementation by @ashkrisk in #2187
• Don't export rows info in index params by @xiaocai2333 in #2190
• fix: remove limitation clustering key can not be primary key by @wayblink in #2194
• fix: unclear error msg for varchar field by @XuanYang-cn in #2208
• Limit milvus-lite files to end with .db by @junjiejiangjjj in #2214
• fix: select a single column consisting of a list of column names by @smellthemoon in #2210
• Rename is_major to is_clustering by @wayblink in #2219
• fix: move page_retain_order to the same level as radius by @PwzXxm in #2249
• fix: not report error when setting default_value=None by @smellthemoon in #2251
• enhance: Bulkinsert support csv by @OxalisCu in #2247
• add hybrid_search for MilvusClient by @czs007 in #2258
• feat: support keyword text match by @longjiquan in #2256
• enhance: support print iterator info(#2261) by @MrPresent-Han in #2262
• fix: not put 'default_value' in dict by @smellthemoon in #2272
• fix not check None Type in json and support no need to pass in None when insert row by @smellthemoon in #2275
• remove analyzer_params, added enable_tokenizer and tokenizer_params by @zhengbuqian in #2273
• fix: upsert rows when set autoid==true fail by @smellthemoon in #2286
• feat: allow empty sparse row by @zhengbuqian in #2291
• fix: reset offset to zero after seek(#2292) by @MrPresent-Han in #2293
• fix: remove duplicate field name check in pymilvus by @zhengbuqian in #2294
• enhance: enable compatible for iterator(#2278) by @MrPresent-Han in #2297
• enhance: Enable bulkwriter to support import v2 by @bigsheeper in #2295
• fix: row based insert/upsert when there is Function in schema by @zhengbuqian in #2298
• Improve embedding retrieval performance by @yhmo in #2300
• fix: add BM25 to supported metric type of search iterator by @zhengbuqian in #2301
• fix: simplified the logic to check if the insert/request data matches the schema by @zhengbuqian in #2303
• fix: Passing messages to code in ParamError by @XuanYang-cn in #2304
• fix: Fix the f16 and bf16 dump error & add all type test for csv & csv supports null by @OxalisCu in #2281
• enhance: handling cp file for query iterator(#2306) by @MrPresent-Han in #2307
• enhance: handling abormal iterator cp file(#2306) by @MrPresent-Han in #2310
• fix: entity_is_sparse_matrix: each row should be dict or list by @zhengbuqian in #2309
• Fixed typo in comment of step 1 by @Armaggheddon in #2302
• fix: bulkwriter to skip function output fields by @zhengbuqian in #2319
• enhance: Rename tokenizer_params to analyzer_params by @aoiasd in #2323
• Corrected grammar and consistency in error messages by @Ahmetyasin in #2289
• modify strict_group_size parameter name(#2328) by @MrPresent-Han in #2329
• fix queryIterator question by @lentitude2tk in #2316
• enhance: Update the template expression proto to improve transmission efficiency by @xiaocai2333 in #2334
• Fix typo and correct grammar by @CaoHaiNam in #2333
• Update return type of describe_role to Dict (#2332) by @CaoHaiNam in #2337
• Add text embedding function by @junjiejiangjjj in #2335
• Use filter_params for milvus client by @xiaocai2333 in #2320
• enhance: Reorganize the examples by @XuanYang-cn in #2340
• enhance: RBAC Custom Privilege Group API by @shaoting-huang in #2342
• fix insert to avoid describe collection on every insert call by @zhengbuqian in #2347
• Remove unnecessary invoke of describe_collection() by @yhmo in #2345
• fix: Add upper limit for grpcio to 1.67.1 by @XuanYang-cn in #2359
• Correct grammar by @CaoHaiNam in #2365
• fix: cannot pass consistency level for delete by @XuanYang-cn in #2350
• Add default values to Pop to prevent exceptions by @czs007 in #2373

New Contributors

• @codingjaguar made their first contribution in #1995
• @nish112022 made their first contribution in #2065
• @brunocfnba made their first contribution in #2090
• @Raysilience made their first contribution in #2134
• @OxalisCu made their first contribution in #2247
• @laipz8200 made their first contribution in #2192
• @Armaggheddon made their first contribution in #2302
• @Ahmetyasin made their first contribution in #2289
• @CaoHaiNam made their first contribution in #2333
• @zhagnlu made their first contribution in #2376

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0