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7.0.8 (70028) - 2025/11/12​

Server​

  • [Audit Log] Added audit logging for index management operations (start, stop, set lock mode, set priority)
  • [Audit Log] Used X509Certificate2.GetDisplayName() instead of Subject for more readable audit log messages
  • [Certificates] Removed BouncyCastle dependency and in favour of build-in .NET certificates generation mechanisms
  • [Certificates] Fixed subject creation for cluster communication certificates in 1-EKU certificate setup without a common name
  • [Corax] Ensured TermsReader is available for map-reduce queries that require paging
  • [Corax] Fixed showing Index Entries for indexes using vectors
  • [Corax] Implemented entry deduplication within Corax to improve deep pagination and correctness of results
  • [Corax] Refactored IndexWriter and fixed handling of text-only terms being marked as numeric
  • [Data Archival] Fixed replication of unarchived documents
  • [Databases] Fixed regression issue that made databases were not unloaded correctly when when idle
  • [Documents] Improved handling of VoronConcurrencyErrorException during patch operations doing put() for document ID ending with "/"
  • [Documents] Optimized document get handlers by reducing async allocations
  • [ETL/Backups] Ensured ETL configuration data is included in backups
  • [Indexing / Memory] Improved memory usage in Lucene by reducing number of allocated object and using native memory to reduce LOH utilizaiton
  • [Indexing] Added support for RavenVector in JavaScript indexes
  • [Indexing] Optimized index reference processing by using bulk updates for MultiTree in the storage
  • [Licensing] Enforced license limits for server-wide client configuration
  • [Licensing] Will now skip license checks for features that are disabled
  • [Memory] Increased the number of inactive handlers based on the total handler count to improve low-memory behavior
  • [Monitoring] Fixed Open Telemetry feature usage alert
  • [Querying] Will now throw an exception if a filter clause is used in a DeleteByQuery or PatchByQuery operation
  • [Replication] Improved memory management in document replication
  • [Replication] Refactored outgoing replication logic for better scoping and resource management
  • [SNMP] Added 'Available Memory For Processing %' to SNMP (OID 1.6.14)
  • [Subscriptions] Ensuring c.'@metadata'.'@refresh' == null works for subscriptions
  • [Time Series] Fixed rollup calculations when a segment edge aligns perfectly with the aggregation
  • [.NET] Updated to .NET 8.0.21

Client​

  • [Replication] Added useServerCertificate parameter to UpdatePullReplicationAsSinkOperation

Studio​

  • [Cluster Debug] Fixed UI display issues for the Blue theme
  • [Compare Exchange] Fixed an issue with cloning compare exchange items
  • [Documents] Added a 'Require typed confirmation' toggle to the delete documents dialog
  • [Edit Document] Fixed layering issues in the document editor's fullscreen mode
  • [Edit Document] Fixed z-index issue for fullscreen editor when using a Developer license
  • [Indexes] Disabled side-by-side index reset for map-reduce indexes that have an output collection
  • [Logging] Fixed download in in Logs on Disk section
  • [Studio] Adjusted main menu layout for smaller screen resolutions
  • [Studio] Fixed compression handling for Studio static files
  • [Studio] Replaced the notifications icon
  • [Thread Info] Showing I/O stats per thread in the advanced threads runtime view

Articles​

7.0.7 (70027) - 2025/09/30​

Server​

  • [Audit Log] Fixed audit log entry for DeleteByQuery and PatchByQuery operations to correctly log the query
  • [Audit Log] Fixed logging on connection closed
  • [Backup] Fixed an issue that caused restoring an encrypted backup to fail if audit logging was enabled
  • [Backup] Fixed listing of AWS S3 restore points
  • [Backup] Improved next backup time calculation for missed schedules
  • [Backup] Refactored backup status reporting to be stored locally on each node and consolidated by the cluster observer
  • [Backup/Restore] Added Max Read Operations Per Second option to backup, restore, import, and export operations
  • [Certificates] Added AcmeRenewalThresholdPercentage configuration option to control the automatic server certificate renewal threshold (default 30%)
  • [Certificates] Added support for server certificates with only a Server Authentication EKU
  • [Certificates] Generated client certificates for pull replication with client EKU
  • [Cluster] Added Cluster.FullReportIntervalInMin configuration option to force sending a full cluster node status report periodically (default 5 minutes)
  • [Corax] Enhanced the binary match query builder for more complex query combinations
  • [Corax] Improved indexing performance by processing posting lists and lookup trees separately
  • [Counters] Fixed an issue in the counters repair task related to context disposal
  • [Debug] Added periodic backup information to the debug package
  • [Debug] Added the total allocated to the allocations event listener event
  • [Debug] Fixed Debug Package information output for sharded databases
  • [Documents] Improved handling of document IDs with non-ASCII and escaped characters, including a tool to clean corrupted IDs
  • [Embeddings Generation] Improved reliability of the embeddings generation
  • [Indexes] Changed index idling to be based on time since last query instead of an in-memory value
  • [Indexes] Corax search engine indexes are now skipped during a database compact operation
  • [Indexes] Fixed index name replacement in the 'Test Index' feature to avoid substring conflicts
  • [Licensing] Fixed subscription count calculation for licensing when database keys are missing
  • [Memory] Improved unmanaged memory management for stream operations to reduce allocations
  • [Operations] Added an endpoint to restart a single database
  • [PAL] Improved accuracy of storage and memory calculations on macOS
  • [Performance] Optimized load document handler to reduce async calls and memory allocations
  • [Querying] Ensured read transactions for streaming queries are disposed of explicitly to prevent leaks
  • [Setup] Using just a file name in Security.Certificate.Path during the Setup Wizard
  • [Smuggler] Increased the maximum number of statements allowed when validating smuggler transformation scripts
  • [SNMP] Added SNMP endpoints for machine load average (1m, 5m, 15m)
  • [Time Series] Fixed restoring of incremental time series with dead values
  • [Tools] Allowed trusting server certificates with a single server authentication EKU via the rvn tool
  • [Voron] Fixed a race condition where the oldest active transaction could report a non-zero value when no transactions were active
  • [Voron] Optimized compression buffer handling for encrypted databases to reduce disk I/O
  • [.NET] Updated to .NET 8.0.20

Client​

  • [Session] Ensured session.Advanced.HasChanges correctly reflects metadata-only changes
  • [Subscriptions] Ensured subscription sessions respect the PreserveDocumentPropertiesNotFoundOnModel convention

Studio​

  • [Databases] Improved performance of the databases view by adding list virtualization
  • [Edit Document] The @archived metadata property is now correctly removed when cloning a document
  • [Index View] The selected search engine type is now passed to the 'Test Index' feature
  • [Licensing] Adjusted the display of license information for RavenDB Cloud
  • [Ongoing Tasks View] Redesigned the 'Add New Ongoing Task' view for an improved user experience
  • Autocomplete form components will now show all options on the initial click
  • Fixed the disabled state for autocomplete form components
  • Updated the date examples in Data Archival, Expiration, and Refresh views to use a future date

Articles​

7.0.6 (70026) - 2025/08/19​

Server​

  • [AI] OnnxRuntime is now initialized lazily to prevent errors on unsupported processors
  • [Backup] Fixed an exception when enabling the CompressAllCollections setting
  • [Backup/Restore] License configuration is now validated before a restore operation
  • [Cluster] Fixed an issue with updating cluster node status reports for maintenance supervision
  • [Data Archival] Cloning an archived document will now correctly drop the @archived metadata flag
  • [Data Archival] The @archive-at metadata property is now correctly handled in patch test results
  • [Data Archival] Ensure that '@archived' metadata flag can be removed only by using 'archived.unarchive' patch method
  • [Debug] Added /databases/*/notifications endpoint to the debug package
  • [Licensing] Fixed an issue where some license attributes were not correctly validated by the cluster
  • [Logging] Fixed logging for CertificateExecTimeout if an executable won't exit in a given timeout
  • [Memory] Optimized memory usage in the storage engine by using unmanaged allocations for streams, reducing LOH pressure
  • [Monitoring] Exposed the number of open file descriptors in SNMP
  • [Operations] DeleteByQuery for collection queries will now correctly process all matching documents instead of only the first 1024
  • [Server] Fixed a potential read transaction hang causing accumulation of temp files
  • [Server] Fixed a race condition in deferrable timeouts
  • [.NET] Updated to .NET 8.0.18

Client​

  • [Includes] Improved the error message when registering includes for an entity that is not tracked

Studio​

  • [Client Configuration] Fixed handling of client configuration overrides when the server-wide configuration is disabled
  • [Connection Strings] Improved form submission handling for AI Connection Strings
  • [Edit Document] Fixed layering issues in the document editor's fullscreen mode
  • [Embeddings Generation] Added a connection test button for AI services in the Embeddings Generation task editor
  • [Indexes] Added the ability to filter the indexes list by search engine type
  • [Indexes] Fixed an issue where non-existent indexing configuration options could cause errors
  • [Themes] Fixed editor colors for various UI themes

7.0.5 (70025) - 2025/07/22​

Server​

  • [Backup] Server-wide tasks are now correctly skipped when restoring from a snapshot
  • [Cluster] Fixed an issue where a node with a database in a "Loading" state could be incorrectly considered for promotion
  • [Corax] Improved memory allocation tracking for NativeList by refining size and maximum capacity monitoring
  • [Corax] Fixed a server crash that could occur when splitting pages due to the use of a removed compact key
  • [Corax] Added the ability to cancel an in-progress "Commit" operation
  • [Corax] Improved performance when indexing large datasets
  • [Database] Escaped the database name in the Database-Missing header to prevent errors with characters not allowed in HTTP headers
  • [Import/Export] Added definitions of EmbeddingsGenerations and AiConnectionStrings as default items to export / import
  • [Indexing] Fixed dynamic returns detection for JS map indexes syntax
  • [Indexing] Prevented an exception from being thrown when attempting to start an index that is already running
  • [Logging] Reduced excessive logging of failures during disk stats checks
  • [Logging] Resolved a Traffic Watch issue that could disrupt certain queries
  • [Logging] Optimized subscription logging by reducing string allocations
  • [Logging] Improvements to Audit Log when doing import/export
  • [Logging] PostgreSQL calls are now visible in Traffic Watch
  • [Logging] Added logging for high-latency requests (over 30 seconds) and large response sizes (over 16MB)
  • [Logging] Added Logs.FileName and Security.AuditLog.FileName configuration options
  • [Replication] Added a debug endpoint for finding missing attachments
  • [Vector Search] Performance optimizations
  • [Vector Search] Optimization of Tensor Primitives on CPU
  • [Vector Search] Vectors exposed as index terms in base64
  • [Voron] Fixed an issue with the Storage Report for vector indexes
  • [.NET] Updated to 8.0.17

Client​

  • [Exceptions] Improved the deserialization of LicenseLimitException
  • [HiLo] Added additional overloads to IHiLoIdGenerator
  • [Indexes] Unified behavior of IndexCreation.CreateIndexesAsync and DocumentStore.ExecuteIndexesAsync

Studio​

  • [Atomic Guards] Added the ability to delete an Atomic Guard.
  • [Atomic Guards] Added an informational warning that is displayed when editing an Atomic Guard.
  • [Certificates] Adjusted colors and icons for certificate database permissions for better clarity.
  • [Certificates] Replaced the "Regenerate" button with a "Clone" button to better reflect its function.
  • [Client Configuration] Apply client configuration properties based on enabled flags
  • [Custom Sorters/Analyzers] The license warning is no longer displayed before saving Custom Sorters or Analyzers
  • [Data Archival Settings] Added a UI toggle for the MaxItemsToProcess setting
  • [Documents] Added a confirmation checkbox to the "Delete All Documents" operation to prevent accidental data loss
  • [Edit Document] The "Copy document ID" button in the document editor is now always visible
  • [Embeddings Generation] Added info about Quantization + other tooltips
  • [Indexes] Improved pause/resume indexing in databases view

7.0.4 (70023) - 2025/06/25​

Studio​

  • Fixed accessibility of Certificates view

7.0.3 (70022) - 2025/06/10​

Server​

  • [Attachments] Fix the attachment key data extraction
  • [Audit Log] Added logging on database settings/index configuration changes
  • [Audit Log] Added logging of opening a TCP connection
  • [Audit Log] Added logging of memory dumps endpoints usage
  • [Audit Log] Fixed a log message of a backup operation
  • [Backup] Fixed slow restore of a backup with revisions
  • [Backup] Enabled support for multi-part uploads up to 5TB to S3
  • [Backup/Export] Implemented rate limiting for backup/restore and import/export operations
  • [Certificates] Removed Oracle Key Usage support for newly generated client certificates to fix compatibility with .NET 9
  • [Corax] Added support for unbounded time queries in Corax between operations
  • [Corax] Optimized performance of cold queries on large data sets
  • [Corax] Made default value of Indexing.Corax.MaxMemoizationSizeInMb dependent on total physical installed memory
  • [Corax] Fixed query results deduplication when a query has projection and specific terms
  • [Corax] Adjusted the starts with behavior inside the Search method to match Lucene
  • [Corax] Fixed the handling of document double deletion in internal structures
  • [Corax] Fixed backward compatibility for indexes that do not have NonExisting posting list support
  • [Data Archival] Archived flag will not be removed when modifying an archived document
  • [Debug] Switched to Microsoft.SourceLink.GitHub and introduced .snupkg
  • [Debug] Fixed /databases/*/admin/debug/txinfo debug endpoint
  • [Debug] Fixed handling of cancellation gracefully in LogTrafficWatch and preventing immediate exit in Raven.Debug traffic command
  • [Debug] Enhanced the replication debug endpoint functionality
  • [Embeddings Generation] Fixed waiting for embeddings to be stored in a task
  • [Embeddings Generation] Fixed embedding generation - skip whitespace / empty strings
  • [ETL] Connection string changes will now restart the relevant ETL process
  • [JSON] Fixed internal parsing of JSON due to invalid handling of escape positions
  • [Logging] Fixed log messages that contain "Raven.Server.Documents.DocumentDatabase" instead of actual database name
  • [Memory] Optimized unmanaged memory usage when doing deep paging and using encryption
  • [Memory] Fixed internal calculations of memory utilization
  • [Memory] Enhanced low memory detection on Windows
  • [Patching] Added WaitForIndexes functionality for patch operations
  • [Performance] Disabled performance impacting logging configuration
  • [PowerBI] Fixed experimental feature error confusion
  • [Querying] Return an empty query when an analyzer removes all terms in the search method instead of throwing OutOfRangeException
  • [Subscriptions] Fixed OperationCanceledException on waiting subscriptions
  • [TestDriver] Made RavenTestDriver testable and fixed testing of ThrowOnInvalidOrMissingLicense
  • [Time Series] Preserved time series name order after conflict resolution for Client API compatibility
  • [Vector Search] Fixed fetching of fields in auto index handling vectors
  • [Vector Search] Fixed C# class generation for RavenVector fields
  • [Vector Search] Improved performance of vectors indexing by changing HNSW insert to parallel mode
  • [Vector Search] Added ability to query vector searching using a document ID
  • [Vector Search] Fixed auto vector search indexes that use quantization and load embeddings from a task
  • [.NET] Updated to 8.0.16

Client​

  • [Querying] Added support for MemoryExtensions.Contains and MemoryExtensions.ContainsAny in LINQ provider and LINQ to JS coverter
  • [Qyerying] Fixed an issue that query builder didn't handle properly ContainsAll of an empty array
  • [Querying] Fixed the problem with Query improperly serializing an enum when it had an EnumMember attribute

Smuggler​

  • [Certificates] Revamped certificates filtering/sorting view
  • [Export] Added export to stream overload for Smuggler API

Studio​

  • [Edit] Added ability to save a document in Studio via cluster transaction
  • [Querying] Vector Search - Autocomplete Enhancements
  • [Revisions] Added a button to copy revision dates

7.0.2 (70014) - 2025/04/29​

Server​

  • [Audit Log] Logging enhancements
  • [Certificates] Fixed an issue with loading a certificate with a password after removing the password
  • [Corax] Fixed NRE when using wildcard search with multiple analyzers
  • [Corax] Optimizations and enhancements for deletions
  • [Corax] Performance optimizations for range queries on big datasets
  • [Databases] Improved management of database idleness detection timers
  • [Embeddings Generation] Fixing an error on creating Embeddings Generation task when some other is disabled
  • [ETL] Fixed testing functionality of SQL connection strings
  • [Indexing] Fixed an issue where indexes could start before custom analyzers and sorters had been loaded
  • [Indexing] Fixed memory corruption when indexing Vectors and optimized vector writes
  • [Indexing] Improved validation of an index definition when using Run Test functionality
  • [Indexing] Optimized vector writes
  • [Indexing] Throw relevant exception for embeddings length mismatch
  • [Licensing] Introduced grace period for upgrade required modal - 14 days
  • [Logging] Fixed logging levels in ETL tasks logs
  • [Memory] Prevented possible memory fragmentation in internal allocations
  • [Monitoring] Added SNMP endpoint for getting the time since the creation of oldest active transaction
  • [Monitoring] Fixed incorrect CPU usage calculation on machines with two physical processors
  • [Performance] Low level performance improvements
  • [Querying] Throw when using the filter together with vector.search()
  • [Querying] Merging scores of duplicated vectors when performing Vector Search
  • [Replication] Fixed an issue in which the incoming replication recreated a revision that has been deleted
  • [Setup] Fixed ports reservation for server
  • [Subscriptions] Snapshot backup restore will restore an original subscription name
  • [TestDriver / Embedded] Added more details on how to handle invalid or missing license
  • [Voron] Fixed a potential issue with missing removal of an active transaction from in-memory state in some edge conditions
  • [.NET] Updated to 8.0.15

Client​

  • [Querying] Added RavenQuery.Include method which extends existing include functionality to allow more complex operations

Studio​

  • [Cluster] Improvements to Cluster Debug view
  • [Connection strings] Fixed an issue where custom model & endpoint were not shown when editing AI connection string
  • [Embeddings Generation] Fixed layout of the creation of a new AI connection
  • [Index Errors] Opening the errors by default
  • [Indexes] Fixed filtering arrow icons
  • [Revisions] Exposed size of a revision
  • [Tombstones view] Exposed info about what is blocking tombstones deletion

7.0.1 (70012) - 2025/03/27​

Features​

  • [AI] Added ability to generate embeddings via external AI providers or embedded model with the usage of Embeddings Generation Task Docs | Guide

Server​

  • [Backup] Better selection of databases to wake up for to run a backup
  • [Backup] Enhanced backup operation status error reporting
  • [Backup] Fixed error when saving the periodic backup status
  • [Backup] Improved logic for determining when a backup should run
  • [Configuration] Removed obsolete "Storage.TransactionsModeDurationInMin" option
  • [Configuration] Default value of Indexing.Corax.VectorSearch.DefaultMinimumSimilarity got changed from 0.75 to 0
  • [Corax] Fixed and issue with duplicates when performing AndWith with TermReader
  • [Corax] Fixed invalid order of query results when using order by
  • [Corax] Fixed missing handling of non existing values in MultiUnaryMatch
  • [Corax] Fixed NRE on the dictionary training phase for indexes defined on @all_docs
  • [Corax] Fixed querying regression introduced in 7.0.0 build which resulted in the increased latency
  • [Counters] Fixed the mechanism of counter tombstones cleanup
  • [Indexing] Fixed WaitForIndexesAfterSaveChanges() implementation to handle indexes defined on @all_docs
  • [Logging] Fixed logging levels of couple of too detailed messages
  • [Memory] Improvement to memory cleanup mechanism of Lucene's managed memory resources
  • [Memory] Improved the memory allocation mechanism in Lucene to reduce GC pressure
  • [Memory] Fixed calculation of unmanaged memory the debug stats
  • [Memory] Fixed an issue with unmanaged memory allocation for a specific pattern
  • [Memory] Fixed an issue with managed memoru usage during backups
  • [Notifications] Improved implementation of notifications storage
  • [Revisions] Fixed possible infinite loop when enforcing revision configuration
  • [Security] Added audit logs for export and import operations
  • [Voron] Fixed edge cases in SeekBackwardFrom implementation that could affect Time-Series retention
  • [Voron] Improved performance of the free space detection to allocate
  • [.NET] Updated to 8.0.13

Client​

  • [Querying] Fixed an issue that "Id" field was not populated in some projections
  • Fixed an issue that the Read balance behavior configuration changes was not triggering the speed test

Studio​

  • [AI] Added new view in AI Hub to manage AI connection strings and Embeddings Generation tasks
  • [Index View] Fixed an issue with the default search analyzer not shown in UI
  • [Ongoing Tasks View] Better observability of replication tasks
  • [Revisions] Added revision bin cleaner to the settings

7.0.0 (70006) - 2025/02/04​

Features​

Upgrading from previous versions​

  • please refer to our Server migration guide before proceeding with Server update and check our list of Server breaking changes available here, Client API breaking changes available here

Server​

  • [JavaScript] updated to Jint 4.1.0
  • this version contains same set of changes as RavenDB 6.2.3

Client API​

  • [Bulk Insert] enabled compression by default
  • [HTTP] switched default http compression algorithm to zstd
  • this version contains same set of changes as RavenDB 6.2.3

Studio​

  • [Admin Logs] revamped view
  • [Feedback] revamped form
  • [Revisions] added new view to Studio for easier Revision management