🎉 Zvec 0.5.0 Release is Live!
This release focuses on retrieval, indexing, ecosystem, and platform & hardware. Give it a try and let us know what you think! ✨
✨ What's new:
• 🔍 Retrieval: Native full-text search works out of the box; a single query fuses full-text search, semantic vectors, and conditional filters, with multi-way result merging handled automatically; the MultiQuery interface is implemented natively in C/C , so every language SDK can integrate hybrid retrieval with ease
• 💾 On-Disk Indexing: New DiskANN on-disk index significantly reduces memory overhead in large-scale scenarios; it complements HNSW/IVF/Flat to cover the full range of retrieval needs, from pure in-memory to on-disk
• 🌐 Ecosystem: Brand-new official Go SDK and Rust SDK for smoother multi-language access; plus the new visual tool Zvec Studio for zero-code data browsing and query debugging
• 🖥️ Platform & Hardware: Added RISC-V support, further expanding hardware compatibility
📚 Learn more:
• 📄 Release Notes: zvec.org/en/blog/2026-06-12-…
• 🧭 Roadmap: github.com/alibaba/zvec/issu…
• 🐛 Report bugs / requests: github.com/alibaba/zvec/issu…
• 💬 Discuss & share: github.com/alibaba/zvec/disc…
A nice write-up on what local-first vector search can actually look like on desktop apps.
This post uses Zvec Obsidian as an example to show:
1. local semantic search
2. image text retrieval
3. related context surfacing while writing
4. fully on-device retrieval pipelines
Feels like we're moving from “vector databases in the cloud” toward “vector search as a native capability inside apps”.
Worth a read:
zvec.org/en/blog/2026-05-25-…
🎉 Zvec v0.4.0 is Live!
This release focuses on mobile coverage, search capabilities, and stability. Give it a try and let us know what you think! ✨
What's new:
• 📱 Mobile Coverage: Official Dart/Flutter SDK for Android (arm64-v8a) and iOS (arm64)
• 🔍 Retrieval Enhancement: Enlarged topK limit to support large-scale candidate recall for downstream re-ranking pipelines
• 🎯 Quantization Accuracy: Fixed SQ8 quantizer recall drop caused by missing int8 rounding in metadata computation
• 🖥️ Cross-platform Stability: Fixed Windows drive-root path handling and improved OS error reporting; relaxed collection path validation
For more details, please read the release blog:
zvec.org/en/blog/2026-05-09-…
We also shared a deep dive into the engineering behind our lightweight core:
zvec.org/en/blog/2026-04-29-…
Two ways to use Zvec with your AI Coding Agent:
1️⃣ MCP Server — Your agent operates the vector DB directly via natural language. No code needed.
zvec.org/en/docs/ai/mcp/
2️⃣ Agent Skill — Your agent writes Zvec code (Python/Node.js) for you.
Just describe your use case (RAG, e-commerce search, etc.) and get working code with schema design.
zvec.org/en/docs/ai/skills/
More native AI support is on the way! 🚀
🎉 Zvec v0.3.0 is Live!
This release brings full multi-platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, along with official SDKs for Python, Node.js, and C.
We've integrated the RabitQ quantization algorithm and added batch optimization for IP/L2 distance calculations on x86. We have also added MCP and Skill framework support for AI Agents.
⚡Performance and simplicity are always our top priorities.
For more details, please read the blog post: zvec.org/en/blog/2026-04-04-…