Version 12.2

[NEW] - SearchAI Native Inference Engine — a new in-process, Python-free inference engine for the Qwen3.5 model family, running on both CPU (optimized kernels for ARM/x86/Windows) and NVIDIA GPU, with no external model server required.
[NEW] - llama.cpp Provider — SearchBlox now launches and manages a bundled llama-server process; llama.cpp is the new default backend for text and agent tasks, with optional GPU offload and automatic fallback.
[NEW] - AI Overview — a grounded, RAG-based answer with citations (/rest/v2/api/ai-overview, streaming supported), also available as an MCP tool.
[NEW] - Virtual Filesystem (VFS) — a new volume-scoped file storage module with file operations (upload/download/move/copy/search), automatic content indexing, versioning, static-site hosting, and sandboxed script execution.
[NEW] - RAG Chunking Overhaul — pluggable chunking strategies (recursive, sentence, paragraph, structural, semantic) with token-aware sizing and per-collection overrides.
[NEW] - Vision-based OCR — scanned-document text extraction now uses vision-LLM OCR in place of Tesseract, including multi-page scanned PDF support.
[NEW] - New Collections — native Jira, Alfresco ECM, Drupal CMS, and Adobe Edge Delivery Services collections, a generic descriptor-driven REST/OData connector (130+ pre-built SaaS integrations), a generic CMIS connector, and native JDBC drivers for 15+ additional databases (Snowflake, Databricks, SAP HANA, Teradata, and more).
[NEW] - Per-Collection Stopwords — configure a custom stopword list on a per-collection basis.
[NEW] - Added five new SSO providers — Amazon Cognito, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Generic OIDC (with discovery/presets), and Generic SAML 2.0 (with cert upload and Validate instead of Test Connection) — each with its own provider-specific config fields and conditional field behavior.
[NEW] - OpenAI-Compatible Chat Completions Endpoint - direct access to the underlying LLM via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (/v1/chat/completions, streaming supported), for MCP tool-calling integrations.

[ENHANCED] - Smart Search: collection-name (cname) routing supported end-to-end; featured-result filtering and vector-weighting corrected.
[ENHANCED] - SharePoint Online Collection: Detailed logging and allow-formats were added.

[FIXED] - Bug fixes on search, analytics, knowledge-graph, cluster and other functionalities.

[SECURITY] - The admin console session-signing key is now generated uniquely per deployment rather than shared across all installations. All administrators must log in again after upgrading.
[SECURITY] - Hardened all XML parsing (license upload, SAML, config import, sitemap, and connector handshakes) against XXE attacks.
[SECURITY] - License upload, cluster management, and Knowledge Graph write endpoints now require authentication.[SECURITY] - Admin login lockout now applies correctly across attempts regardless of session cookie state.
[SECURITY] - Updated dependencies to remediate known vulnerabilities, including PostgreSQL, Jackson, Netty, OpenNLP, and htmlunit; replaced Akka with Apache Pekko and iText with OpenPDF for licensing reasons.