azure-search-documents_11.8.0

11.8.0 (2025-10-10)

Features Added

• Added support for 2025-09-01 service version.
  • Support for reranker boosted scores in search results and the ability to sort results on either reranker or reranker
    boosted scores in SemanticConfiguration.rankingOrder.
  • Support for VectorSearchCompression.RescoringOptions to configure how vector compression handles the original
    vector when indexing and how vectors are used during rescoring.
  • Added SearchIndex.description to provide a textual description of the index.
  • Support for LexicalNormalizer when defining SearchIndex, SimpleField, and SearchableField and the ability to
    use it when analyzing text with SearchIndexClient.analyzeText and SearchIndexAsyncClient.analyzeText.
  • Support DocumentIntelligenceLayoutSkill skillset skill and OneLake SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection data source.
  • Support for QueryDebugMode in searching to retrieve detailed information about search processing. Only vector is
    supported for QueryDebugMode.

Breaking Changes

• All features from 11.8.0-beta.x versions that weren't GA'd in 2025-09-01 were removed.
• VectorSearchCompression.rerankWithOriginalVectors and VectorSearchCompression.defaultOversampling don't work with
  2025-09-01 and were replaced by VectorSearchCompression.RescoringOptions.enabledRescoring and
  VectorSearchCompression.RescoringOptions.defaultOversampling. If using 2024-07-01 continue using the old properties,
  otherwise if using 2025-09-01 use the new properties in RescoringOptions.

Other Changes

• Upgraded azure-core from 1.56.1 to version 1.57.0.
• Upgraded azure-core-http-netty from 1.16.1 to version 1.16.2.
• Upgraded azure-core-serializer-json-jackson from 1.6.1 to version 1.6.2.