- Introduced Secure MCP Server (preview) API for AI agents plus internal gRPC communication hardening and async replication optimizations.
- Added extensible tokenizer endpoint with accent‑insensitive processing, custom stopword presets, and new BlobHash property type to reduce blob storage footprint.
- Enhanced backup reliability with incremental file‑based backups, experimental schema drop‑vector‑index support, and extensive collection export capabilities including multi‑node export, cancellation, and metadata handling.