- Added experimental distributed deployment with Raft‑based cluster topology, sharding, distributed search/updates, and a new cluster status API
- Introduced on‑disk payload storage, streaming updates for numeric/keyword/geo indexes, and multiple performance optimizations (faster payload index, HNSW speed, RocksDB log rotation, parallel segment creation)
- Breaking change: payload storage format changed; existing collections are incompatible and must be recreated
v0.8.0
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