- RBAC becomes GA with extensive permission enhancements, group management, new env vars, silent internal authorizations, and updated documentation.
- Async Replication is introduced, leveraging Merkle trees for fast, lightweight data consistency across cluster nodes, with many stability and performance improvements.
- gRPC Aggregate now supports search, property aggregators, and meta count queries, alongside a suite of bug fixes and refactorings.
v1.29.0 - RBAC, Async Replication, ACORN improvements, ColBERT, Blazing Fast BM25
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Bound digest RPC memtable snapshots to the requested key range and improved async replication performance by negotiating binary digest encoding and carrying byte ID digests end‑to‑end.
Added new REST search endpoints (bm25, hybrid, near object, aggregate counts) and backup role inclusion feature.
Fix async replication handling, including local resolution of replicas, leaked goroutine fixes, and proper tenant restoration on failures.