Findwise i3 Release Notes
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Findwise i3 is an information platform that uses Elasticsearch or Apache Solr under the hood to provide advanced, personalized search experience. It supports different kinds of solutions for e-commerce, workplace, customer service and similar. With powerful data enrichment, natural language processing and manageable relevance, Findwise i3 ensures right information at the right time.
What is next for Findwise i3?
We are currently working on the upcoming minor version 4.4.0.
We follow the rules of semantic versioning and we aim to release a new minor version every ~2 months.
Below table summarizes the changes in each release.
| Version name | Release date | Quick summary |
| 5.0.0 | expected date: 2026.04.xx | Major release |
| 4.4.0 | expected date: 2026.01.xx | Minor release introducing MCP and an audit log to track changes made within the Curate Service. |
| 4.3.0 | 2025.12.01 | Minor release introducing a new out-of-the-box Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) feature to improve the quality and contextual relevance of AI-generated responses. A new Read-Only user role has been added, allowing users to view configuration settings without modification rights. Additional Index Service performance improvements enhance speed and scalability. The release also includes vulnerability mitigations, bug fixes, and other minor enhancements. |
| 3.14.4 | 2025.26.11 | Patch release addressing vulnerabilities in Java components with no breaking changes introduced. |
| 4.2.0 | 2025.07.18 | Minor release delivering enhancements across multiple services. The Search Service now includes a new Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) feature to improve result relevance and ranking. The Index Service has been optimized for faster collection summary performance. This release also introduces configuration support for i3 deployments on Kubernetes, and finalizes the migration to native Elasticsearch 8.x vector search, replacing the previous Elastiknn plugin for improved performance and compatibility. |
| 4.1.1 | 2025.06.06 | Patch release addressing two key issues in i3 version 4.1.0: the Processing REST client has been updated to ensure files larger than 20MB no longer cause blocking issues, and critical vulnerabilities in the AI Facade have been resolved by updating the xz-libs dependency. |
| 3.14.3 | 2025.05.09 | Patch release delivering bug fixes, performance optimizations from four Index-related improvement tickets, and vulnerability mitigations. |
| 4.1.0 | 2025.04.04 | Minor release introducing several new features in the Curate Service, including the Relevancy Acceptance Tester (RAT) and Relevancy Tester (RT) to support search evaluation workflows, as well as the new Solr Synonyms feature for improved synonym management. Enhanced system monitoring has been added through OpenTelemetry, along with performance optimizations to the Index Service. The release also includes vulnerability mitigations, bug fixes, and other minor enhancements. |
| 4.0.1 | 2025.03.14 |
Patch Release addressing bug fixes identified following the i3 major release 4.0.0. |
| 4.0.0 | 2025.01.13 | Major release 4.0.0 introduces substantial upgrades and system-wide improvements. Key dependencies have been updated, including MongoDB, Spring Boot, Solr, Lucene 9.x, Elasticsearch 8.x, and migration to Java 17. User authentication now supports Keycloak for SSO, with Simple Security available as an alternative. AI-model management has been enhanced with the ability to switch embedding models. The deprecated SEP 3 module has been renamed to Curate, and outdated features and APIs have been removed. Additional improvements include a Tika upgrade, unified time formats and zones across i3, updated graphical design aligned with the latest Findwise standards, vulnerability mitigations, bug fixes, and other minor enhancements. |
| 3.14.2 | 2024.12.11 | Patch release to fix blueprint bug in Connect Service, pagination and query issues in Index Service |
| 4.0.0-beta.3 | 2024.10.22 | Key dependencies upgrade part 3 (latest MongoDB), KeyCloak for SSO user management, ability to change models in AI-models for embeddings, mitigation for the vulnerabilities, bug fixes and minor enhancements |
| 3.14.1 | 2024.09.19 | Patch release to fix Aggregations that return incorrect data or throw exceptions |
| 4.0.0-beta.2 | 2024.08.16 | Key dependencies upgrade part 2 (latest Spring Boot and Solr), mitigation for the vulnerabilities, bug fixes and minor enhancements |
| 4.0.0-beta | 2024.04.17 | Key dependencies upgrade (Java 17, Lucene 9.x, Elasticsearch 8.x) |
| 3.14 | 2024.08.02 | Mainly next SEP features, mitigation for the vulnerabilities, bug fixes and minor enhancements |
| 3.13 | 2024.02.13 | New Search Editor Portal |
| 3.12.1 | 2023.10.24 | Patch release with i.a. ElasticDateHistogramFacetFeature bug fix |
| 3.12 | 2023.09.11 | Small minor release with few improvements (i.a. i3 Index optimization), bug fixes and mitigating vulnerabilities |
| 3.11 | 2023.07.04 | Named Entity Recognition available in i3 Process OOTB, mitigation of recent critical vulnerabilities and foundation for new SEP service. |
| 3.10 | 2023.04.21 | New Elasticsearch Java API Client for all i3 services |
| 3.9 | 2023.02.28 | Several new improvements (Config as a code, Search), bug fixes and security mitigations |
| 3.8 | 2022.11.25 | Introducing support for OpenSearch in i3 as well as dependency upgrade to remove latest vulnerabilities |
| See previous releases | ||
High-level roadmap
