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What’s new in 8.12

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What’s new in 8.12

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Here are the highlights of what’s new and improved in Elasticsearch 8.12! For detailed information about this release, see the Release notes and Migration guide.

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Enable query phase parallelism within a single shard

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Activate inter-segment search concurrency by default in the query phase, in order to enable parallelizing search execution across segments that a single shard is made of.

#101230

Add new int8_hsnw index type for int8 quantization for HNSW

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This commit adds a new index type called int8_hnsw. This index will automatically quantized float32 values into int8 byte values. While this increases disk usage by 25%, it reduces memory required for fast HNSW search by 75%. Dramatically reducing the resource overhead required for dense vector search.

#102093

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