Release Notes: Vector Retriever - Milvus#

Version 2026.1.0#

June 17, 2026:

Fixed

  • Docker base images for both the visual data preparation for retrieval and vector retriever Milvus services updated from the pinned python:3.12.12-slim to the rolling python:3.12-slim; the build now runs a full apt-get upgrade to apply all available OS-level security patches, and apt-get clean is performed to reduce image size.

  • astapi upgraded from 0.121.1 to 0.121.3 and pydantic from 2.9.1 to 2.10.6 to resolve dependency scan findings.

Version 2025.2.0#

Dec 10, 2025:

New

  • Microservices Architecture:

    • Retriever Service: Retrieves data from Milvus based on text queries.

    • Multimodal Embedding Service: Generates embeddings for multimodal data.

  • Milvus Integration: Seamless vector database support for high-performance retrieval.

  • Model Support:

    • Configurable embedding models (e.g., CLIP/clip-vit-h-14).

Validated configuration:

  • Intel® Core™ processors (13th Gen, i7 recommended)

  • Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics (Intel® Arc™ A770 recommended)