v3.5.1

Name: helix-db
Author: HelixDB

HelixDB/helix-dbv3.5.1Oct 8, 2026by github-actions[bot]

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AI Summary

This release focuses on significant performance improvements, including a 1.8x faster query planner and native request front end, alongside bug fixes for full-text search and optimizations for vector searches. It also introduces dedicated routing for Cypher queries and updates the underlying SlateDB dependency.

Key Highlights

1.8x faster query planning and native request front end improvements.
Dedicated routing for Cypher queries with a shared API contract.
Vector search optimizations including cosine norm vectorization and improved ranking.
Bug fixes for full-text split hydration and SlateDB multi_get version ordering.
Improved CI coverage gates and adoption of SlateDB's probe-first cached reads.

New Features

Serve Cypher on its own routes and share its API contract
Faster native request front end
Docker CLI v0.0.12 integration

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed
* ci: make main pass its own db production coverage gate by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1189
* perf(db): vectorise the cosine norm while keeping stored bits by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1191
* fix(db): reopen full-text splits from disk once hydration publishes them by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1192
* perf(db): resolve BM25 live state only for candidates that can make the top k by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1193
* perf(db): rank index ID sets directly in filtered node vector searches by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1194
* perf(db): pick up SlateDB's probe-first cached reads by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1197
* Bump SlateDB for multi_get version ordering fix by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1198
* perf: faster native request front end and 1.8× faster planning (simd-json, early freeing, planner data structures), with arena study by @matthewsanetra in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1196
* Serve Cypher on its own routes and share its API contract by @matthewsanetra in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1195
* Default the CLI to Docker v0.0.12 by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1201
* Release CLI v3.5.1 for Docker v0.0.12 by @xav-db in https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/pull/1202


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/compare/v3.5.0...v3.5.1

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