v2.5.24

milvus-io/milvusv2.5.24Dec 11, 2025by yanliang567

AI Summary

This release prioritizes system security and stability with critical dependency updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities. It resolves significant correctness issues in Hybrid Search and JSON query processing.

Key Highlights

Upgraded Go to 1.24.11 to address security vulnerabilities.
Optimized the loading performance of BM25 statistics.
Fixed an issue where total search count was incorrectly returned as zero.
Fixed potential QueryNode crash caused by memory handling in JSON contains.
Improved startup logic to fail fast if critical components are not ready.

New Features

Optimized BM25 statistics loading
Fast fail logic for unready components
Fixed Hybrid Search total count issue

Full Release Notes

Release note is coming soon.## v2.5.24

Release date: December 23, 2025

| Milvus version | Python SDK version | Node.js SDK version | Java SDK version |
|----------------|--------------------|---------------------|------------------|
| 2.5.24          | 2.5.18            | 2.5.13              | 2.5.14           |

We are excited to announce Milvus 2.5.24. This release prioritizes system security and stability, featuring critical updates to dependencies to address high-severity vulnerabilities. Additionally, it resolves significant correctness issues in Hybrid Search and JSON query processing, ensuring reliable performance under complex workloads. We strongly recommend all users upgrade to this version.

### Improvements

- Upgraded Go version to 1.24.11 to address security vulnerabilities ([#46114](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/46114)).
- Upgraded [golang.org/x/crypto](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/crypto) dependency to fix CVE vulnerabilities ([#46112](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/46112)).
- Optimized the loading performance of BM25 statistics for sparse vector search ([#45780](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45780)).
- Refined logic to exclude stopping nodes from resource groups, improving cluster load balancing stability ([#45982](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45982)).

### Bug fixes

- Improved startup logic to fail fast if critical components are not ready, aiding in troubleshooting ([#46115](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/46115)).
- Fixed a data scanning issue where the cursor was not correctly updated after skipping data chunks ([#46078](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/46078)).
- Fixed undefined behavior that could occur when dumping database snapshots ([#45613](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45613)).
- Fixed an issue where default values for geometry fields were not correctly set via the RESTful API ([#46065](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/46065)).
- Fixed an issue where the total search count was incorrectly returned as zero during hybrid searches ([#45843](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45843)).
- Fixed a logic error where QueryCoord ignored stopping nodes during watcher events ([#45964](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45964)).
- Fixed a potential QueryNode crash caused by memory handling in JSON contains expressions ([#45785](https://github.com/milvus-io/milvus/pull/45785)).