v4.20.0

Mesh-LLM/mesh-llmv4.20.0Jul 13, 2026by swilly22

AI Summary

Major version release introducing new traversal semantics, performance optimizations for pathfinding algorithms, and the removal of Bolt protocol support.

Key Highlights

Introduces variable-length traversal semantics and enforces maximum identifier lengths
Optimizes SPpaths and Dijkstra algorithms for better performance
Removes Bolt protocol support
Fixes defrag-related write stalling and orphaning issues

Breaking Changes

Bolt protocol support has been removed

New Features

Variable Length Traversal semantics
Maximum identifier length enforcement

Full Release Notes

## What's Changed

### 🚀 Features & Semantics
* Variable Length Traversal semantics by @GomezGab in #2156
* Enforce a maximum length on identifiers by @GomezGab in #2108

### ⚡ Performance
* Improve algo.SPpaths single shortest path performance by @swilly22 in #2163
* Optimize dijkstra by @swilly22 in #2173
* Defrag locking by @swilly22 in #2175

### 🐛 Bug Fixes
* fix(defrag): don't stall or orphan writes under active defrag by @DvirDukhan in #2191

### 🔧 Changes
* remove bolt support by @swilly22 in .#2170

### 📦 Dependencies
* chore(deps): update libcurl to curl-8_21_0 by @github-actions[bot] in #2153

### 🧪 CI & Internal
* ci: RediSearch 8.6 build infrastructure by @DvirDukhan in #2101
* ci(build): decouple promote-toolchain from the app build by @DvirDukhan in #2113
* test(flow): increase code coverage with tests by @gkorland in #2067
* Fix coderabbit config by @gkorland in #1936

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB/compare/v4.18.11...v4.20.0