This release focuses on making search and merchandising behavior more consistent and predictable, while also improving Advanced Preview usability, indexing reliability (including nested fields), and a few key dashboard + API quality-of-life updates. These changes are designed to reduce edge-case failures, improve transparency while tuning, and keep your environments running smoothly.

Release Highlights

• Advanced Preview improvements – Multiple updates to make Preview easier to use and interpret, including design refinements, better handling of long text, more intuitive defaults (like merchandising enabled), and improved results/count behavior when switching tabs.
• Better transparency for tuning – Improvements to boost visibility and explain behavior so you can validate relevance changes more confidently during analysis.
• Tracking & Recommendations API enhancement – Added support for passing ClientGuid via HTTP header, improving compatibility across integrations and services.
• Visual Search mobile UX update – Mobile users can now upload images directly from their photo library, improving the Visual & Image Search workflow.
• Support Portal access update – Navigation updates to the new Support Portal within the HawkSearch product experience.
• Dashboard account usability – Added support for password reset functionality.

Stability and Performance Updates

We also shipped a set of backend and platform hardening updates aimed at reducing errors and improving reliability:

• Indexing reliability improvements – Addressed a failure scenario that could bring down the Indexing API, plus additional safeguards around indexing edge cases.
• Nested-field indexing updates – Expanded support for nested-field updates (including removal scenarios) and bulk nested attribute cleanup.
• Improved handling of special characters – Fixed an encoding issue that could cause indexing problems when field values contain special characters (like &).
• Indexing visibility fixes – Corrected issues where indexing summaries could show incorrect “last indexed” timing.
• Landing page + rule consistency fixes – Resolved multiple rule/operator behaviors that could cause unexpected landing page results and mismatches (including “empty” handling and operator logic alignment).
• Facet/result consistency – Fixed cases where facet counts did not match the result set users received.
• Reporting/scheduling reliability – Addressed notification report scheduling issues to improve consistency.
• Performance safeguards – Avoided unnecessary calls in scenarios where inputs are empty, and continued improvements to OpenSearch indexing batch operations.

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