PRE-RELEASE V1.2 · RC.2 · COMPANY TESTING
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PacificDB 1.2.0-rc.2 is published for external evaluation. Documents, vectors and media retain shared authoritative WAL/LSM storage.
What changed in v1.2?
Added
- Dense, sparse and named vectors, immutable creation-time schemas and matching SDK operations.
- Opt-in standalone flat exact/HNSW lifecycle, bounded dense incremental maintenance and BM25/RRF hybrid retrieval.
- Consistent candidate packages and installed-package verification for native tools and Node/Python/Java SDKs.
Removed
- Unsafe legacy all-pairs ANN selection from supported search routing.
- Process-global query-limit state that could mix concurrent requests.
Improved
- Bounded exact ranking, selective vector decoding and authoritative point-read/cache correctness.
- Storage failure/recovery and credential-log handling, with scoped regression tests.
- RC.2 fixes short-window Workbench navigation and Linux installer integration.
Install and integrate
Workbench installers bundle engine and CLI. @pacificdb/client@1.2.0-rc.2 and @pacificdb/cli@1.2.0-rc.2 are on npm. Python 1.2.0rc2 wheel and Java 1.2.0-rc.2 JAR/POM are downloadable from GitHub. PyPI/Maven publication awaits owner setup; those registry channels are not claimed available.
Use the Python client from FastAPI and the Node.js client from a Next.js Node server runtime. The Node package is JavaScript ESM and does not ship TypeScript declarations. Do not expose database credentials in browser code.
Known limitations and qualification
This is a prerelease, not a stable production release. Native vector features stay opt-in and standalone. Strict ANN can be unavailable during writes; graphs require explicit rebuilding after restart. Automatic graph compaction, complete distributed vector search, advanced compression/disk ANN and full production/upgrade/power-loss/security qualification remain incomplete. Stable signing/notarization and enterprise endpoint-policy compatibility are not fully qualified.
Scoped RC.2 checks passed 78 checkpoint checks/50 CTest cases, installed SDK tests, Community/disk-full/RF3 regressions, four public desktop installations and targeted separate TSAN/ASan/UBSan jobs. Exact verification scope.
Benchmark status
The post-publication RC.2 comparison uses 1M GloVe-25 cosine vectors against PostgreSQL 18.6 + pgvector 0.8.7, with 1,000 held-out queries per round. Static query rounds completed; the full mutation/crash/rebuild lifecycle is still in progress. A final complete result is not yet claimed. This is a project-run comparison, not independent certification; timings depend on hardware, cache, dimensions, payload and settings.
License and feedback
The Community engine is AGPL-3.0-only. SDKs and the npm CLI use Apache-2.0; dependency licenses remain their own. The current repository includes document/vector/media, shared durability, auth and RF3 features without edition-specific size/request paywalls. Future Business/Enterprise packaging is not a committed feature contract.
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