March 2026 Meilisearch product update is here 🚀
→ New ranking rules for finer search control
→ Replicated sharding
→ Way faster embedding indexing
→ Cloud UI keeps getting better
See you at AWS Summit Paris on April 1st 🇫🇷
👉️ Full update:
New on Meilisearch Cloud: IP allowlist.
Pick which IP addresses can reach your project. Requests from anywhere else get turned away.
It adds to your API keys, not instead of them. A good fit for backend servers, internal gateways, or your company VPN.
Meilisearch v1.56 is out, with two upgrades:
Faster filters: new 'sampledCount' sorted facets find your top filter values up to 10x faster.
Smoother indexing: when your embedder is slow or down, small updates still go through and big jobs stop early.
github.com/meilisearch/me…
RAG and MCP get mixed up all the time. RAG helps the model find the right info before it answers. MCP lets an AI app use outside tools, like your order system. Most real apps end up using both.
more here:
Our September newsletter is out, starting with @Quentin_dQ IBC2026 talk: AI-powered search, discovery, and recommendations from one index, on real media catalogs.
Plus, what we shipped during this busy summer: MCP, search rules boosts, and faster search.