# Weaviate 1.29 is here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [February 18, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-1-29-is-here/10432 "2025-02-18T13:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/weaviate-1-29-is-here/10432/1 "2025-02-18T13:58:49Z")
This week we have some really exciting news waiting for us - let’s dive right in to what’s new with Weaviate 🔎 # WEAVIATE 1.29 is here! 🥳 Weaviate Core v1.29.0 release it’s finally here and the number of PR’s merged is just **MASSIVE**!!! This release contains: - RBAC - Async Replication - ACORN improvements - ColBERT (or multi-valued vectors) - Blazing Fast BM25 with BlockMax WAND - and more!!! Release notes: [Release v1.29.0 - RBAC, Async Replication, ACORN improvements, ColBERT, Blazing Fast BM25 · weaviate/weaviate · GitHub](https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/releases/tag/v1.29.0) 👉 Also look at some key pages inside our docs, if you want to learn about each key feature: - RBAC (GA): [How-to configure](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/configuration/rbac), [Tutorial](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/tutorials/rbac) - Multi-vector embeddings (preview): [Tutorial](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/tutorials/multi-vector-embeddings), [JinaAI ColBERT vectorizer](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/model-providers/jinaai/embeddings-colbert) - BlockMax WAND (preview): [Concepts: Indexing](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/concepts/indexing#blockmax-wand-algorithm), [Env-vars](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/config-refs/env-vars#general) - Async replication (GA): [Concepts](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/concepts/replication-architecture/consistency#async-replication), [Env-vars](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/config-refs/env-vars#multi-node-instances) - NVIDIA modules: [Vectorizer](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/model-providers/nvidia/embeddings), [Multimodal vectorizer](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/model-providers/nvidia/embeddings-multimodal), [Generative](http://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/model-providers/nvidia/generative) Or join our: Weaviate 1.29 Release Highlights Session | 🗓 March 5th | [Register here](https://lu.ma/weaviate-release-highlights-1-29) # AI ECOSYSTEM - New Agent/ Function Calling Leaderboard from Galileo evaluates various LLMs across 14 benchmarks. [See the Leaderboard](https://lnkd.in/eiw8YQkt) or [Read the Blog](https://lnkd.in/e7b2v2f7) - 🤯 Hot of the Press: Zonos from ZyphraAI: A multilingual Text-to-Speech model with instant voice cloning [GitHub - Zyphra/Zonos: Zonos-v0.1 is a leading open-weight text-to-speech model trained on more than 200k hours of varied multilingual speech, delivering expressiveness and quality on par with—or even surpassing—top TTS providers.](https://github.com/Zyphra/Zonos) - AI Action Summit in Paris - Watch the recording to see speeches of our world leaders [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0UchHnWPI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0UchHnWPI). # READS & LEARN & LISTEN - 🎙 [Contextual AI with Amanpreet Singh - Weaviate Podcast #114:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKDU2mhKEI) - ✍ New Blog Posts - [The Future Speaks in Vectors - Why AI-native infrastructure is critical for agentic AI:](https://weaviate.io/blog/ai-native-infrastructure-agentic-ai) _Learn how traditional CRUD-based applications are giving way to agentic workflows with vector databases at their core._ - [Agents Simplified: What we mean in the context of AI:](https://weaviate.io/blog/ai-agents) _What is an AI Agent? Learn how AI agents work, the benefits of using AI agents and more_. - 📕 RAG with Weaviate and Anthropic’s Citations API: _In this recipe, learn how to do RAG with Anthropic’s generative models, which cite the relevant parts of the retrieved documents._ [Follow along the code](https://github.com/weaviate/recipes/blob/main/weaviate-features/generative-search/generative_search_anthropic/rag_with_anthropic_citations.ipynb) - 📽 Think Deepseek-R1 was trained like other top LLMs? Think again: Learn about the autonomous, self-evolution approach that was used to train Deepseek-R1. [Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reWz0-x5YCg) - 📺 60-second explainers on key concepts: - [How do AI search engines always get you?](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/femke-plantinga_how-do-ai-search-engines-always-get-you-activity-7292971301063872514-mQyG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) - [How to pick the best LLM in 2025?](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/femke-plantinga_stop-relying-on-openai-models-for-everything-activity-7295814736493920256-lc0V?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACkcRmgBPOkggs8ART3ijDZi9VTTFt257w8) # Whats Coming Up ONLINE - Master Vector Embeddings with Weaviate with Data Science Dojo | Feb 19th | [Register here](https://datasciencedojo.com/event/ai-ml-applications-weaviate-part-3/?utm_campaign=5277859-Community%20Events&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=weaviate&utm_term=meetup_vector_embeddings_with_weaviate_part_3&utm_content=victoria_slocum&utm_campaign=5277859-Community+Events&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=weaviate&utm_term=meetup_vector_embeddings_with_weaviate_part_3&utm_content=victoria_slocum) - Navigating the AI Database Landscape: Guidance from the Field | Feb 20th | [Register here](https://events.weaviate.io/gigaom-webinar-2025?utm_campaign=7234673-25-02-20%20GigaOm%20Webinar&utm_source=newsletter) - Online Workshop - RAG in ECommerce for JavaScript Developers | Feb 20th | [Register here](https://lu.ma/ws-ts-rag-25-02-20) - ⭐ **Weaviate 1.29 Release Highlights Session** | March 5th | [Register here](https://lu.ma/weaviate-release-highlights-1-29) IN PERSON - Dallas Roadshow | Dallas, TX | Feb 27th. [Save your spot](https://events.weaviate.io/ai-in-prod-dal?utm_campaign=6822144-25-02%20Weaviate%20Roadshow%20DAL&utm_source=newsletter) - AI Open Mic Night + Networking | Menlo Park, CA | Feb 18th. [Save your spot](https://lu.ma/ldnbdwq5?tk=CHjfnq) - Agentic AI Hack Night | San Francisco, CA | Feb 19th. [Register here](https://lu.ma/agentic-hack-night-02-19-2025) - AI Leaders Chat & Network at Cloudflare | San Francisco, CA | Feb 28th. [Request to join](https://lu.ma/cloudflare-2-26-25) if you like to get regular updates just follow us along on our [#announcements](https://weaviate-org.slack.com/archives/C01C7782T3L) channel in slack or subscribe to our [Newsletter](https://newsletter.weaviate.io/) Thank you and happy coding 🙂 ---
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