What’s new in 8.12edit

Here are the highlights of what’s new and improved in Elasticsearch 8.12! For detailed information about this release, see the Release notes and Migration guide.

Other versions:

8.11 | 8.10 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0

Enable query phase parallelism within a single shardedit

Activate inter-segment search concurrency by default in the query phase, in order to enable parallelizing search execution across segments that a single shard is made of.

#101230

Add new int8_hsnw index type for int8 quantization for HNSWedit

This commit adds a new index type called int8_hnsw. This index will automatically quantized float32 values into int8 byte values. While this increases disk usage by 25%, it reduces memory required for fast HNSW search by 75%. Dramatically reducing the resource overhead required for dense vector search.

#102093