Changelogs

Last updated: January 15, 2026

Next releases

• Global cluster with many more enhancements.

• External volume will become available soon.

2026

January 15, 2026

• 🚀 New Milvus v2.6.x features become available on Zilliz Cloud

  • TIMESTAMPTZ Field

  • Text Highlighter

• 🛠️ Dynamic replica autoscaling with intelligence.

• 📅 Advanced scheduled scaling with familiar cron settings.

• 🌎 Global cluster becomes alive. Contact us to access.

• ☁️ BYOC becomes more user friendly with the following enhancements:

  • Full autoscaling capabilities

  • Technical support access control

2025

December 26, 2025

• 🚀 Milvus v2.6.x becomes generally available (GA)

• 💾 Tiered storage becomes GA, and billing starts

December 1, 2025

• 📦 Stage has been renamed to Volume, and becomes GA

• 🔐 Organization-level IP Whitelist becomes available

• 🔐 TOTP-based MFA becomes available

November 6, 2025

• 🚀 Milvus v2.6.x becomes available on the Zilliz Cloud with more data types:

  • Geometry, and

  • Array of Structs

• 🔍 Full-text search capabilities are now available during migrations.

• ⏰ Customizing the notification interval to suppress repeated alerts.

• 🔧 The dynamic field can be enabled for existing collections without collection recreations.

• 💳 Subscription plans have been shifted to the project level, while clusters have several deployment options. Read Detailed Plan Comparison to find more.

October 9, 2025

• 🚀 Milvus v2.6.x becomes available on the Zilliz Cloud

  • Field addition without downtime

  • Enhanced full-text search with multi-language analyzers and phrase match

  • Accelerated JSON filtering with JSON indexing and Shredding

  • Boost ranker and Decay rankers for search result refinement

  • Support for INT8_VECTOR data type

• 💾 Tiered storage upgrade for extended capacity clusters

• 🔄 Cross-region backup for business continuity strategy

• ⚙️ Index build levels for you to tailor index settings for scenarios

• 🚧 Pipelines become deprecated

August 20, 2025

• 📈 Autoscaling upgrade with simplified configuration

• 📋 Audit logs become generally available

• 🔐 SSO experience improved

August 13, 2025

• New Region: 🇦🇺 AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2)

July 15, 2025

• 🔗 Merge data API for schema evolution.

• 📦 Stage as a shared staging layer for migration and data import

• 📅 Schedule-based cluster autoscaling

• 🔄 Partial restoration of a cluster

• ⚙️ JSON index settings on the Zilliz Cloud console

• 📊 Quota settings for BYOC projects

• 🔐 Restoration of RBAC settings during cluster restores

June 9, 2025

• 📚 Migration docs and best practices refactored

• 🚨 Policy-based alerts for granular and flexible monitoring

• ⚙️ mmap settings on the Zilliz Cloud console

• ☁️ BYOC becomes available on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• 🤖 Well-designed AI assistant on your commands

April 24, 2025

• 🔄 Zero-downtime migration becomes available

• ⚙️ Instance settings and AWS PrivateLink support for BYOC projects

• 🔍 Fine-granular filtering on a JSON field using JSON index

• 🛠️ Use the RESTful API to modify the replica count of your cluster.

March 27, 2025

• 🔒 BYOC-I provides complete data sovereignty

• 📋 Audit logs for your clusters become available

January 27, 2025

• 🚀 Milvus v2.5.x becomes available on the Zilliz Cloud

• 🔍 Full Text Search complements existing semantic search capability

• 📋 Audit logs for your clusters become available

• ☁️ BYOC on AWS with enhanced security

2024

December 26, 2024

• 🎯 High recall rate by turning the search level

• 🔐 Collection-level RBAC support

• 💾 mmap support for expanded data capacity

• 🗂️ Database for multi-tenancy becomes available

• New Region: 🇺🇸 GCP us-central1 (Iowa)

• ☁️ BYOC becomes available on AWS

November 6, 2024

• 🎨 Zilliz Cloud console refactored

• 🔄 Data migration with expanded sources:

  • Qdrant,

  • Pinecone, and

  • Tencent Cloud

• 💳 Improved payment process and redesigned invoice page

October 14, 2024

• 📚 Notebook gallery is online

• ⚡ Performance-optimized clusters with expanded capacity

• 🔄 Multi-replica becomes generally available

• New Region: 🇯🇵 AWS Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)

• 📊 Integrate with Prometheus

• 🔑 Single sign-on (SSO) with Auth0

• 🎁 Free trail using AWS Marketplace

September 14, 2024

• ☁️ Serverless clusters become generally available

• 🔄 Multi-replica becomes available for public preview

• 📦 Migration service for you to migrate data to Zilliz Cloud:

  • Milvus

  • Elasticsearch

  • PostgreSQL, and

  • Across Zilliz Cloud clusters

• 🛠️ RESTful API endpoints for backup, restore, migration, and job management

July 23, 2024

• 🛠️ RESTful API endpoints refactored

• 🤖 Chatbot for easy information retrieval

• 📋 One-stop job monitoring for backup, restore, migration, and data import

• 📈 Autoscaling becomes available for private preview

• 🖼️ Pipelines enhanced with image searches

June 18, 2024

• 🚀 Milvus v2.4.x becomes available on the Zilliz Cloud

  • Sparse vector data type support

  • Float16 & BFloat16 vector data type support

  • Multi-vector hybrid search

  • Inverted index and fuzzy match

  • Grouping search

  • Refined MilvusClient interfaces

• 📊 Pipelines now monitor token usage

May 15, 2024

• ☁️ Serverless clusters are in beta now

• New Region: 🇩🇪 Azure Germany West Central (Frankfurt)

• New Region: 🇩🇪 GCP europe-west3 (Frankfurt) and 🇺🇸 us-east-4 (Virginia)

• 🧠 Text pipelines and image pipelines become available

April 13, 2024

• 🛒 Azure Marketplace goes online

• 🔌 Pipelines now support connectors

• 🔄 Pipelines introduce rerankers for search pipelines

• 📊 Metric monitoring through RESTful API is available

• 🌐 Cross-cloud data import and migration

March 13, 2024

• 🧠 Pipelines now support more embedding models

• 🎮 The collection playground becomes available on the Zilliz Cloud console

January 18, 2024

• 📥 Data import from Parquet files

• 🔐 API keys enhanced with RBAC principles

• 📊 Metric boards and alert system refactored

2023

December 11, 2023

• ☁️ Zilliz Cloud becomes available on Azure with the following regions:

  • New Region: 🇺🇸 Azure East US

• 🚀 Pipelines become available in beta

• 🔐 RBAC and credential management in your clusters

• 🛠️ Cluster-related RESTful API endpoints

October 17, 2023

• New Region: 🇩🇪 AWS Frankfurt (aws-en-central-1)

• 🚀 Milvus v2.3.x becomes available for public preview

  • Range search

  • Upsert

  • Cosine metric type

  • Access control

  • Raw vectors in return

  • JSON_CONTAINS filter

  • Entity count

September 27, 2023

• 💰 Support for advance pay

• New Region: 🇺🇸 AWS US East 1 (aws-us-east-1)

September 13, 2023

• 🔄 Data migration across Zilliz Cloud clusters

• 🚀 Easy migration from Elasticsearch

• 📥 Data import enhancements

August 16, 2023

• New Region: 🇸🇬 AWS Singapore (ap-southeast-1)

• New Region: 🇸🇬 GCP Singapore (asia-southeast-1)

• 🔄 Migration support from serverless clusters to dedicated ones

• 📤 Bulk insert support

June 11, 2023

• ☁️ Serverless clusters become available

• 💰 Zilliz Cloud plan tiers introduced

• 👥 Organization, collaboration and RBAC for access control

• 🏷️ Partition key for namespacing introduced

• 📝 Dynamic schema becomes available

• 📊 New data type: JSON

April 6, 2023

• 💰 Pricing calculator

• 💾 Back & restore on GCP

• ⏰ Custom timezone

• 🔄 Collection renaming

March 6, 2023

• New Region: 🇺🇸 GCP Oregon (us-west1)

• ☁️ Zilliz Cloud becomes available on the AWS Marketplace

• 💾 Backup & Restore becomes available on AWS

• 🗑️ Recycle bin for data continuity strategy

• 🔄 Migration from Milvus

February 13, 2023

• 📧 Email notifications

• 📚 In-line guidance for beginners

January 10, 2023

• 👁️ Data preview for collections

• 📚 Demo dataset to help beginners get familiar with vector databases

2022

December 5, 2022

• 🎨 Zilliz Cloud console with new design

• New Region: 🇺🇸 AWS Ohio (us-east-2)

• 🔐 Private Link becomes available

• 📥 Data import becomes available

November 18, 2022

• 🚀 Zilliz Cloud opens to the public without invitation

• ⚡ Capacity-optimized CUs go online

• 📊 Resource monitors for QPS and query latency

• 🛠️ AUTOINDEX to simplify indexing

• ⚡ Optimize the UI performance for a better user experience

September 15, 2022

• 🎨 Collection view refactored

• 🔍 Vector search view refactored

• 🧑‍💻 Signup with Google becomes available

• ⚙️ System maintenance settings become available

August 30, 2022

• 📊 Larger standard vector database.

• ⚙️ Managing collections on Cloud UI.

• ⚙️ Managing index on Cloud UI.

• 🔍 Executing vector search on Cloud UI.

• 🔐 Disables database access from the Internet by default for security concerns.

• 🔐 Improves whitelisting experience.

• 💰 Supports credits.

• 🚀 Improves Cloud UI for better interaction.

August 1, 2022

• 👁️ Viewing collections on Cloud UI.

• 👁️ Viewing collections schema on Cloud UI.

• ➕ Creating collections on Cloud UI.

• ➖ Deleting collections on Cloud UI.

• 👁️ Viewing index on Cloud UI.

• 🚀 Cloud UI for better interaction.

July 22, 2022

• New Region: 🇺🇸 AWS Oregon (us-west-2)

• ✅ Supports all Core Milvus features.

• ⏸️ Supports suspending and resuming vector databases.

• 📊 Supports viewing basic vector database metrics.

• 👥 Supports database user management.

• ➕ Supports creating multiple projects.

• 🔐 Supports setting IP Whitelist at the project level.

• 👁️ Supports viewing user operational events.

• 🔐 Supports enabling MFA with email.