PyMilvus 2.2.8 Release Notes

New Features

1. [FEATURE]: Has an utility function to parse if the connection is to Zilliz cloud or opensource Milvus

>>> utility.get_server_type(using="default")
"milvus"

2. List indexes by field name #1386

>>> utility.list_indexes(collection_name, field_name=vec_field)
[vec_field_idx]

3. [FEATURE]: Remove the logic to fill in the default number of shard when create collection
   PyMilvus doesn't set default shard numbers when creating a new collection.
4. [FEATURE]: PyMilvus supports using env configs

• Support uri with username and password:

from pymilvus import connections
uri = "https://username:[email protected]:19530"
connections.connect(uri=uri)

• Support using MIVLUS_URI env to init default connection alias.

// set MILVUS_URI in env
$ export MILVUS_URI=https://username:[email protected]:19530

>>> from pymilvus import connections
>>> connections.connect()
>>> connections.get_connection_addr("default")
{"address": "exampledomain.com:19530", "user": username}

• Support reading envs from .env file

# .env.example in https://github.com/milvus-io/pymilvus/blob/master/.env.example
# Please copy this file and rename as .env, pymilvus will read .env file if provided

MILVUS_URI=
# MILVUS_URI=https://username:[email protected]:19530

# Milvus connections configs
MILVUS_CONN_ALIAS=default
MILVUS_CONN_TIMEOUT=10

Bug fixes

• [Bug]: Partition in orm is buggy