Orama Community Update - June '23

Welcome to the monthly blog series where we bring you up to speed on recent happenings in the Orama community and celebrate noteworthy milestones.

📦 Orama v1.0.0 released!

We reached an important milestone: we just landed Orama v1.0.0!

From now on, backward compatibility between Orama versions is guaranteed. This means that you can upgrade to the latest version without worrying about breaking changes.

🎉 New features

Starting from v1.0.0, we also released some new features and improvements:

• Sort API (#384)
  You can now sort your search results by any scalar field, in ascending or descending order.
• Group by API (#398)
  You can now group your search results by any scalar field.
• Array Properties (#378)
  You can now index and search arrays of strings, numbers, and booleans.
• Numeric properties performance improvements (#389)
  We rewrote the numeric properties indexing and search logic to improve performance.

🛠️ Notable Fixes

• Fixed data persistence plugin usage on browsers (#399)
• Fixed Astro plugin usage for pages generated inside a folder (#377)
• Fixed Astro plugin build on Windows (#385)
• Fixed document deletion from the storage when the remove function is invoked (#379)

Check out the Orama releases page on GitHub to learn more.

✨ Community Contributions

A few quick shoutouts to the following community members who contributed to this month's releases:

• Matteo Pietro Dazzi for fixing the Astro build process on Windows (#385)
• Leonardo Montini for fixing the Astro build process for pages generated inside a folder (#377)
• Vinicius Lourenço for improving performances of AVL tree operations (#392, #394)

🏆 Community Rewards

Is your organization using Orama to solve interesting search problems? Have you contributed to Orama, written an article, made a public talk or made a YouTube video? Share your success story at info@oramasearch.com and claim a box of community rewards as a thank you!

🎥 New Blogs, Videos and Events

• It's all about the tokens: understanding tokenization
• Orama v1.0.0 is out!
• How I converted a podcast into a knowledge base using Orama search and OpenAI whisper and Astro
• Video introduction to Orama 🇮🇹
• Introduction to Orama 🇮🇹

📈 Orama Community Stats

• 5,860+ GitHub Stars
• 235+ community Slack members
• 43 contributors
• 161 forks
• 68 releases
• 36 repositories depend on Orama
• 5,100+ weekly npm downloads

What's Next?

• If you like what you see on GitHub, please take a moment to give the project a star.
• Get started! We've made it easy to get up and running with just a few lines of code.
• Join the Orama Slack community, we're always happy to help.

👋 See you next month!