• JSON support
• Dynamic schema
• Partition key
• Connection management

New Features

1. [FEATURE]: Has an utility function to parse if the connection is to Zilliz cloud or opensource Milvus

>>> utility.get_server_type(using="default")
"milvus"

2. List indexes by field name #1386

>>> utility.list_indexes(collection_name, field_name=vec_field)
[vec_field_idx]

3. [FEATURE]: Remove the logic to fill in the default number of shard when create collection
   PyMilvus doesn't set default shard numbers when creating a new collection.
4. [FEATURE]: PyMilvus supports using env configs

• Support uri with username and password:

from pymilvus import connections
uri = "https://username:[email protected]:19530"
connections.connect(uri=uri)

• Support using MIVLUS_URI env to init default connection alias.

// set MILVUS_URI in env
$ export MILVUS_URI=https://username:[email protected]:19530

>>> from pymilvus import connections
>>> connections.connect()
>>> connections.get_connection_addr("default")
{"address": "exampledomain.com:19530", "user": username}

• Support reading envs from .env file

# .env.example in https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/blob/master/.env.example
# Please copy this file and rename as .env, pymilvus will read .env file if provided

MILVUS_URI=
# MILVUS_URI=https://username:[email protected]:19530

# Milvus connections configs
MILVUS_CONN_ALIAS=default
MILVUS_CONN_TIMEOUT=10

Bug fixes

• [Bug]: Partition in orm is buggy

Fix some bugs

Fix some bugs

Support python3.11

Fix some bugs

fix some bugs

Support GPU

Fix some bugs

Fix some bugs, improve some search performance