Change log

Features :blueberries:

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/824 - Full storage snapshot - creates a snapshot of all collections and aliases in one call

Improvements :factory:

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/783 - Parallel segment loading - significantly improves service recovery time

• Several distributed deployment stability improvements:

  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/798 - better defaults for internal calls timeout
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/797 - propagation of wait flag during distributed calls
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/799 - automatic selection of number of shards
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/816 - more even point distribution across shards
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/822 - API for viewing collection shards distribution
  • https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/851 - better handling of DNS record changes of peers

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/821 - fix backward compatibility with storages created in 0.8.x

Bug fixes :shrimp:

• https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant/pull/849 - fix possible inconsistency in payload index in case of inserting multiple payloads with the same value

Further work

The main goal for v0.9.0 is a seamless cluster scaling - ability to add more nodes into the cluster and move shards between this nodes.

Thanks @agourlay, @e-ivkov, and @IvanPleshkov for contributing into this release!