v0.1.0

Highlights

• First public release of sift, a standalone Rust CLI for local hybrid document retrieval.
• Ships a layered search pipeline with lexical, phrase, and vector retrieval, plus fusion and reranking.
• Supports rich local corpora including text, HTML, PDF, and OOXML documents without a daemon or external database.

Included In v0.1.0

• Composable search strategy architecture with named presets.
• Structure-aware segmenting and improved search snippets for rich documents.
• Persistent global caching for extracted content and vector embeddings, with mmap-backed fast paths for repeated queries.
• Local embedding and reranking support, including Qwen-based LLM reranking.
• Evaluation and benchmarking commands for quality and latency checks.
• Cross-platform release artifacts with Homebrew support, static Linux builds, and automated GitHub releases.

Notes

• This release established the initial CLI and packaging baseline that later 0.2.x work builds on.