Aerospike Vector Search (AVS) Python client 4.0.0 Release Notes

January 28, 2025

New in this version

• The admin and standard clients have been merged into a single client object.
• A new Index object is available, which provides simpler and more performant interactions with AVS indexes.

AVS server compatibility

AVS Python client 4.0.0 is compatible only with AVS server versions 0.11.0 and later.

Breaking changes

• Merge the admin and standard clients. [VEC-344]
• Remove the deprecated wait_for_index_completion client method. [VEC-479]
• Remove the deprecated field_names vector search and get parameter. [VEC-505]
• Limit top_k search results to 10 by default. [VEC-508]
• Ensure that the vector_distance_metric field in the IndexDefinition class is always type types.VectorDistanceMetric and not integer. [VEC-510]

New features

This release adds an Index object for targeted interaction with AVS indexes. By default, when using this object, AVS excludes vector data from search results. [VEC-478]

More information

• https://pypi.org/project/aerospike-vector-search/4.0.0/
• https://aerospike-vector-search-python-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• https://github.com/aerospike/avs-client-python/releases/tag/v4.0.0