🎉 Zvec 0.6.0 Release is Live!
This release brings major upgrades across retrieval, compute optimization, deployment experience, and the quantization framework. Upgrade and give it a try!
✨What's new:
• 🔍Retrieval: New Group-By search with per-group Top-K support,
⚡ Lightning-fast, lightweight embedded vector DB.
🚀 High performance made simple.
- Github: github.com/alibaba/zvec
- Discord: discord.gg/rKddFBBu9z
Joined February 2026
- 🚀 New blog post: Zvec now has native full-text search With v0.5.0, Zvec can handle keyword recall, BM25 scoring, phrase queries, Boolean queries, and FTS × vector hybrid search inside the same embedded vector database. No separate Elasticsearch sidecar. No dual writes. No
- 📱What if your phone could search its own memory? To explore Zvec Flutter SDK on mobile, we built PocketSearch: an on-device search app that starts with intelligent local photo search on Android and iOS. It shows how Zvec can power fast, local retrieval today, and points toward
- 🎉 Zvec 0.5.0 Release is Live! This release focuses on retrieval, indexing, ecosystem, and platform & hardware. Give it a try and let us know what you think! ✨ ✨ What's new: • 🔍 Retrieval: Native full-text search works out of the box; a single query fuses full-text
- A nice write-up on what local-first vector search can actually look like on desktop apps. This post uses Zvec + Obsidian as an example to show: 1. local semantic search 2. image + text retrieval 3. related context surfacing while writing 4. fully on-device retrieval pipelines

