# milvus

> Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/milvus
- **Author**: milvus-io
- **Category**: Databases
- **Latest version**: `v2.6.18` (2026-06-05)
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus
- **Homepage**: https://milvus.io
- **Language**: Go
- **GitHub**: 43,898 stars, 3,969 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `anns`, `cloud-native`, `diskann`, `distributed`, `embedding-database`, `embedding-similarity`, `embedding-store`, `faiss`, `go`

## Description

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `v2.6.18` | 2026-06-05 | High | Release note is coming soon... |
| `v2.6.17` | 2026-05-22 | High | Release note is coming soon.. |
| `v2.6.16` | 2026-05-14 | High | Release note is coming... |
| `v2.6.15` | 2026-04-17 | High | Release note is coming soon... |
| `v2.6.14` | 2026-04-07 | High | ## v2.6.14  Release date: April 7, 2026   \| Milvus Version \| Python SDK Version \| Node.js SDK Version \| Java SDK Version \| Go SDK Version \| \| -------------- \| ------------------ \| ------------------- \| ---------------- \| -------------- \| \| 2.6.14         \| 2.6.11             \| 2.6.13              \| 2.6.17           \| 2.6.1          \|   We are excited to announce the release of Milvus v2.6.14! This release focuses on stability and performance, delivering faster MixCoord recovery, optimi |
| `client/v2.6.3` | 2026-03-24 | Medium | ### New Features  - **TruncateCollection API**: Added `TruncateCollection` method to the Go SDK client, allowing users to quickly remove all data from a collection without dropping and recreating it. Use `NewTruncateCollectionOption(collectionName)` to invoke. (#48361, #47308)  - **GetReplicateConfiguration API**: Added `GetReplicateConfiguration` API for viewing replication topology (with tokens redacted) and `force_promote` field to `UpdateReplicateConfigurationRequest`. Supports strong co |
| `v2.6.13` | 2026-03-23 | Medium | ## v2.6.13  Release date: March 23, 2026   \| Milvus Version \| Python SDK Version \| Node.js SDK Version \| Java SDK Version \| Go SDK Version \| \| -------------- \| ------------------ \| ------------------- \| ---------------- \| -------------- \| \| 2.6.13         \| 2.6.10             \| 2.6.11              \| 2.6.16           \| 2.6.1          \|  ### Features  #### Gemini embedding model support ([#48223](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/48223))  Added Google Gemini as a built-in text |
| `v2.6.12` | 2026-03-13 | Low | ## v2.6.12  Release date: March 17, 2026  \| Milvus Version \| Python SDK Version \| Node.js SDK Version \| Java SDK Version \| Go SDK Version \| \|:-------------- \|:------------------\|:--------------------\|:-----------------\|:---------------\| \| 2.6.12         \| 2.6.10             \| 2.6.11               \| 2.6.15           \| 2.6.1          \|  We are pleased to announce the release of Milvus v2.6.12! This release introduces replication topology inspection and configurable TLS minimum version for |
| `v2.6.11` | 2026-02-12 | Low | ## v2.6.11  Release date: February 12, 2026  \| Milvus Version \| Python SDK Version \| Node.js SDK Version \| Java SDK Version \| Go SDK Version \| \|:-------------- \|:------------------\|:--------------------\|:-----------------\|:---------------\| \| 2.6.11         \| 2.6.9             \| 2.6.9               \| 2.6.13           \| 2.6.1          \|  We are pleased to announce the release of Milvus 2.6.11! This update continues to enhance query performance and system stability with improvements to filt |
| `v2.5.27` | 2026-02-11 | Low | ## v2.5.27  Release date: February 27, 2026  \| Milvus Version \| Python SDK Version \| Node.js SDK Version \| Java SDK Version \| Go SDK Version \| \|:-------------- \|:------------------\|:--------------------\|:-----------------\|:---------------\| \| 2.5.27         \| 2.5.18             \| 2.5.13              \| 2.5.14           \| 2.5.14         \|  Milvus 2.5.27 is a critical security release that fixes [CVE-2026-26190](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/security/advisories/GHSA-7ppg-37fh-vcr6) (CV |

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