v0.2.0

🚀 Zvec v0.2.0 Release Notes

A major update focused on optimization, platform expansion, and developer experience improvements.

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📦 Core Features & Improvements

• Support AI extension framework for on-device embedding workflows (#88)
• Auto-scalable segment metadata in MMap storage files (#67)
• Unified search invocation interface in core (#15)
• Linux ARM64 build support (#71)
• Silent failure on repeated initialization attempts (#79)

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed delete_by_filter logic using key instead of index (#84, #87)
• Corrected quantized int unit tests (#47)
• Removed unnecessary column_name param from AddColumn API (#59)
• Fixed typos in HNSW index implementation (#50)
• Removed redundant error expectations in tests (#82)
• Cleaned up unused ailego module (#85)

🔧 Developer Experience

• Replaced typing_extensions with standard typing (Python ≥3.10) (#99)
• Improved C++ error logging via LOG_ERROR instead of cerr (#80)
• Updated docstrings and .pyi stubs for Python bindings (#41)
• Removed obsolete IndexMeta::MetricType definition (#53)
• Added C++ examples to macOS/Linux CI matrix (#86)

🤖 CI/CD & Tooling

• Support CI runs for forked PRs (#52)
• Skip CI on Markdown-only changes (#55)
• Added issue templates for better community support (#46)
• Updated CMake minimum version requirement (#44, #57)
• Bench tool documentation refresh (#77)

📚 Documentation

• Updated README badges and join-us section (#45, #54)

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👋 New Contributors

• @SYaoJun — first contribution (#50)

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Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0
Upgrade Recommendation: ✅ Recommended for all users — includes critical performance and stability improvements.