Manticore Search 27.1.5 adds built-in authentication and authorization, introduces sharded tables, add conversational search, speeds up vector search, improves faceting and aggregations, and includes 65 fixes since 25.0.0.
How Manticore detects when HNSW search has converged and stops early, cutting distance computations by 50-80% with minimal precision loss.
How More Like This works in classic full-text search, what embeddings change, and why this kind of lookup is more convenient inside the search engine.
A practical guide to solving glued-vs-spaced search queries like xt850 vs xt 850, with clear explanations of bigram_delimiter, second_numeric, second_has_digit, and reproducible examples.
A practical guide to using bigram_index to accelerate phrase queries in Manticore Search, with clear explanations of all, first_freq, both_freq, and a reproducible manticore-load benchmark.
A practical walkthrough of building a search app with Manticore: autocomplete, typo tolerance, filters, facets, deep pagination, semantic search, and similar-item discovery in one flow.