Changelogs

Last updated: Oct 9, 2025

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• Milvus v2.6.x features become generally available

• New data types: Geometry, Array of Structs, and TimestampTZ

• Business critical plan

2025

Oct 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

Aug 20, 2025

• Autoscaling upgrade with simplified configuration

• Audit logs become generally available

• SSO experience improved

Aug 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.