# Meilisearch v1.53.0 — 🖇️​ v1.53.0

- Product: Meilisearch (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/meilisearch)
- Vendor: Meili
- Date: 2026-08-10
- Version: v1.53.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/releases/tag/v1.53.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/meilisearch/releases/v1.53.0

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- **added** — Foreign filter now supports sharding by retrieving documents through the network when evaluating foreign filters and hydrating documents
- **changed** — Increase the limit of documents that a foreign filter can retrieve from 100 to 1000
- **added** — Add indexSize and usedIndexSize fields returned by GET /indexes/{index_uid}/stats and GET /stats endpoints
- **security** — Fix code security issues in GitHub Actions workflows

###### **✨ Enhancement**

- Sharding for foreign filters by @ManyTheFish in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6517
    
    - The foreign filter now supports sharding by retrieving the documents through the network when evaluating the foreign filters and hydrating the documents.
    
    - The limit of documents that a foreign filter can retrieve has been increased from 100 to 1000.
    
- Adds `indexSize` and `usedIndexSize` returned by `GET /indexes/{index_uid}/stats` and in `GET /stats` by @tpayet in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6563

###### 🔒 Security

- Fix code security issues in GitHub Actions workflows by @curquiza in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6565
- Bump quinn-proto from 0.11.14 to 0.11.16 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6538

###### **🔩 Miscellaneous**

- Bump peter-evans/repository-dispatch from 3.0.0 to 4.0.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/6556

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/compare/v1.51.0...v1.53.0