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June 2025

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2025-06-26
Assistant

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Unlimited assistant file storage for paid plans

Organizations on the Standard and Enterprise plans now have unlimited file storage for their assistants. Previously, organizations on these plans were limited to 10 GB of file storage per project.

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2025-06-23
Database

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Data import from Google Cloud Storage

You can now import data into an index from Google Cloud Storage. This feature is in public preview.

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2025-06-20
SDK

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Released Python SDK v7.1.0 and v7.2.0

Released v7.1.0 and v7.2.0 of the Pinecone Python SDK. These versions fix minor bugs and add support for managing namespaces.

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2025-06-16
SDK

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Released Go SDK v4.0.0 and v4.0.1

Released v4.0.0 and v4.0.1 of the Pinecone Go SDK.

Go SDK v4.0.0 uses the latest stable API version, 2025-04, and includes support for the following:

Go SDK v4.0.1 expands the DescribeIndex response to include the private_host value for connecting to indexes with a private endpoint.

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2025-06-16
SDK

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Released Node.js SDK v6.1.1

Released v6.1.1 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version adds support for setting the sampling temperature for an assistant, and expands the describeIndex response to include the private_host value for connecting to indexes with a private endpoint.

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2025-06-12
Docs

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Data modeling guide

Added a new guide to help you model your data for efficient ingestion, retrieval, and management in Pinecone.

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2025-06-05
SDK

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Released Java SDK v5.1.0

Released v5.1.0 of the Pinecone Java SDK. This version adds support for listing and describing embedding and reranking models hosted by Pinecone.

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2025-06-05
SDK

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Released Node.js SDK v6.1.0

Released v6.1.0 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version adds support for controlling the context snippets sent to the LLM by an assistant.

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May 2025

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2025-05-29
SDK

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Released Python SDK v7.0.1 and v7.0.2

Released v7.0.1 and v7.0.2 of the Pinecone Python SDK. These versions fix minor bugs discovered since the release of the v7.0.0 major version.

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2025-05-29
SDK

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Released Node.s SDK v6.0.1

Released v6.0.1 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version adds pagination to the listBackups operation.

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2025-05-19
API

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Pinecone API version 2025-04 is now the latest stable version

2025-04 is now the latest stable version of the Pinecone APIs. For highlights, see the SDK releases below.

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2025-05-19
SDK

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Released Python SDK v7.0.0

Released v7.0.0 of the Pinecone Python SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-04, and includes support for the following:

Additionally, the pinecone-plugin-assistant package required to work with Pinecone Assistant is now included by default; it is no longer necessary to install the plugin separately.

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2025-05-19
SDK

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Released Node.js SDK v6.0.0

Released v6.0.0 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-04, and includes support for the following:

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2025-05-19
SDK

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Released Java SDK v5.0.0

Released v5.0.0 of the Pinecone Java SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-04, and includes support for the following:

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2025-05-19
SDK

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Released .NET SDK v4.0.0

Released v4.0.0 of the Pinecone .NET SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-04, and includes support for the following:

Before upgrading to v4.0.0, update all relevant code to account for the following breaking changes. See the v4.0.0 release notes for full details.

  • The create_index and create_for_model operations:
    • CreateIndexRequestMetric has been renamed to MetricType.
  • The list_indexes operation:
    • ModelIndexEmbedMetric has been renamed to MetricType.
  • The embed operation:
    • SparseEmbedding.SparseIndices has changed from IEnumerable<int> to IEnumerable<long>.
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2025-05-06
Docs

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New Docs IA

We’ve overhauled the information architecture of our guides to mirror the goals of users, from indexing to searching to optimizing to production.

This change includes distinct pages for search types:

And optimization techniques:

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April 2025

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2025-04-25
Database

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) in GCP

The Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) offering is now available in GCP. Organizations with high security and compliance requirements can use BYOC to deploy Pinecone Database in their own GCP account. This feature is in public preview.

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2025-04-21
Database

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Integrate AI agents with Pinecone MCP

Pinecone’s open-source MCP server enables AI agents to interact directly with Pinecone’s functionality and documentation via the standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP). Using the MCP server, agents can search Pinecone documentation, manage indexes, upsert data, and query indexes for relevant information.

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2025-04-21
Assistant

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Add context to AI agents with Assistant MCP

Every Pinecone Assistant now has a dedicated MCP server that gives AI agents direct access to the assistant’s knowledge through the standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP).

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2025-04-21
Assistant

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Upload a file from an in-memory binary stream

You can upload a file to an assistant directly from an in-memory binary stream using the Python SDK and the BytesIO class.

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2025-04-21
Database

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Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v1.0.0

Released v1.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds support for sparse indexes, indexes with integrated embedding and reranking, index tags, and index deletion protection.

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2025-04-13
SDK

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Released .NET SDK v3.1.0

Released v3.1.0 of the Pinecone .NET SDK. This version adds support for indexes with integrated embedding and reranking.

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2025-04-04
Docs

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LLM shortcuts for Pinecone docs

You can now use the “Copy page” options at the top of every page of the Pinecone documentation to quickly ground LLMs with Pinecone-specific context.

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March 2025

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2025-03-26
Assistant

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Control the context snippets the assistant sends to the LLM

You can control the context snippets sent to the LLM by setting context_options in the request.

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2025-03-24
SDK

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Released Go SDK v3.1.0

Released v3.1.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version adds support for indexes with integrated embedding and reranking.

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2025-03-21
General

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Launch week: Dark mode

Dark mode is now out for Pinecone’s website, docs, and console. You can change your theme at the top right of each site.

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2025-03-20
General

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Launch week: Self-service audit logs

You can now enable and configure audit logs for your Pinecone organization. Audit logs provide a detailed record of user, service account, and API actions that occur within Pinecone. This feature is in public preview and available only on Enterprise plans.

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2025-03-19
General

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Launch week: Introducing the Admin API and service accounts

You can now use service accounts to programmatically manage your Pinecone organization through the Admin API. Use the Admin API to create and manage projects, as well as create and manage API keys. The Admin API and service accounts are in public preview.

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2025-03-18
Database

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Launch week: Back up an index through the API

You can now back up an index and restore an index through the Pinecone API. This feature is in public preview.

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2025-03-17
Database

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Launch week: Optimized database architecture

Pinecone has optimized its serverless database architecture to meet the growing demand for large-scale agentic workloads and improved performance for search and recommendation workloads. New customers will use this architecture by default, and existing customers will gain access over the next month.

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2025-03-13
Docs

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Firebase Genkit integration

Added the Firebase Genkit integration page.

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2025-03-10
Database

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) in public preview

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) lets you deploy Pinecone Database in your private AWS account to ensure data sovereignty and compliance, with Pinecone handling provisioning, operations, and maintenance. This feature is in public preview on AWS.

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February 2025

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2025-02-21
Docs

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Docs site refresh

We’ve refreshed the look and layout of the Pinecone documentation site. You can now use the dropdown at the top of the side navigation to view documentation for either Pinecone Database or Pinecone Assistant.

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2025-02-18
Assistant

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Limit the number of chunks retrieved

You can now limit the number of chunks the reranker sends to the LLM. To do this, set the top_k parameter (default is 15) when retrieving context snippets.

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2025-02-21
Docs

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Assistant Quickstart colab notebook

Added the Assistant Quickstart colab notebook. This notebook shows you how to set up and use Pinecone Assistant in your browser.

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2025-02-18
SDK

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Released Node.js SDK v5.0.0

Released v5.0.0 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-01, and includes support for Pinecone Assistant and sparse-only indexes.

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2025-02-11
Docs

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New integrations

Added the Box and Cloudera AI integration pages.

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2025-02-10
Assistant

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Citation highlights in assistant responses

You can now include highlights in an assistant’s citations. Highlights are the specific parts of the document that the assistant used to generate the response.

Citation highlights are available in the Pinecone console or API versions 2025-04 and later.

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2025-02-07
API

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Pinecone API version 2025-01 is now the latest stable version

2025-01 is now the latest stable version of the Pinecone APIs.

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2025-02-07
SDK

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Released Python SDK v6.0.0

Released v6.0.0 of the Pinecone Python SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-01, and includes support for the following:

  • Index tags to categorize and identify your indexes.
  • Integrated inference without the need for extra plugins. If you were using the preview functionality of integrated inference, you must uninstall the pinecone-plugin-records package to use the v6.0.0 release.
  • Enum objects to help with the discoverability of some configuration options, for example, Metric, AwsRegion, GcpRegion, PodType, EmbedModel, RerankModel. This is a backwards compatible change; you can still pass string values for affected fields.
  • New client variants, PineconeAsyncio and IndexAsyncio, which provide async methods for use with asyncio. This makes it possible to use Pinecone with modern async web frameworks such as FastAPI, Quart, and Sanic. Async support should significantly increase the efficiency of running many upserts in parallel.

Before upgrading to v6.0.0, update all relevant code to account for the following breaking changes. See the v6.0.0 release notes for full details.

  • Incorporated the pinecone-plugin-records and pinecone-plugin-inference plugins into the pinecone package. If you are using these plugins, you must unstall them to use v6.0.0.
  • Dropped support for Python 3.8, which has now reached official end of life, and added support for Python 3.13.
  • Removed the explicit dependency on tqdm, which is used to provide a progress bar when upserting data into Pinecone. If tqdm is available in the environment, the Pinecone SDK will detect and use it, but tdqm is no longer required to run the SDK. Popular notebook platforms such as Jupyter and Google Colab already include tqdm in the environment by default, but if you are running small scripts in other environments and want to continue seeing progress bars, you will need to separately install the tqdm package.
  • Removed some previously deprecated and rarely used keyword arguments (config, openapi_config, and index_api) to instead prefer dedicated keyword arguments for individual settings such as api_key, proxy_url, etc.
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2025-02-07
SDK

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Released Java SDK v4.0.0

Released v4.0.0 of the Pinecone Java SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-01, and adds support for sparse-only indexes.

Before upgrading to v4.0.0, update all relevant code to account for the following breaking changes. See the v4.0.0 release notes for full details.

  • embed method:

    • parameters now accepts Map<String, Object> instead of EmbedRequestParameters.
    • The Embeddings response class now has dense and sparse embeddings. You now must use getDenseEmbedding() or getSparseEmbedding(). For example, instead of embeddings.getData().get(0).getValues(), you would use embeddings.getData().get(0).getDenseEmbedding().getValues().

  • rerank method:

    • documents now accepts List<Map<String, Object>> instead of List<Map<String, String>>.
    • parameters now accepts Map<String, Object> instead of Map<String, String>.
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2025-02-07
SDK

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Released Go SDK v3.0.0

Released v3.0.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-01, and adds support for sparse-only indexes.

Before upgrading to v3.0.0, update all relevant code to account for the following breaking changes. See the v3.0.0 release notes for full details.

  • embed operation:
    • EmbedParameters is no longer typed as a pointer.
  • create_index operation:
    • CreateServerlessIndexRequest and CreatePodIndexRequest structs have been updated, and fields are now classified as pointers to better denote optionality around creating specific types of indexes: Metric, Dimension, VectorType, and DeletionProtection.
  • Various data operation:
    • Values in the Vector type are now a pointer to allow flexibility when working with sparse-only indexes.
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2025-02-07
SDK

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Released .NET SDK v3.0.0

Released v3.0.0 of the Pinecone .NET SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2025-01, and adds support for sparse-only indexes.

Before upgrading to v3.0.0, update all relevant code to account for the following breaking changes. See the v3.0.0 release notes for full details.

  • embed operation:

    • The Embedding type has changed from a simple object to a discriminated union, supporting both DenseEmbedding and SparseEmbedding. New helper methods available on the Embedding type: IsDense and IsSparse for type checking, AsDense() and AsSparse() for type conversion, and Match() and Visit() for pattern matching.
    • The Parameters property now uses Dictionary<string, object?>? instead of EmbedRequestParameters.

  • rerank operation:

    • The Document property now uses Dictionary<string, object?>? instead of Dictionary<string, string>?.
    • The Parameters property now uses Dictionary<string, object?>? instead of Dictionary<string, string>?.

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January 2025

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2025-01-29
General

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Update to the API keys page

Added the Created by column on the API keys page in the Pinecone Console. This column shows the email of the user who created the API key.

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2025-01-29
Database

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Sparse-only indexes in early access

You can now use sparse-only indexes for the storage and retrieval of sparse vectors. This feature is in early access.

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2025-01-22
Assistant

Pinecone Assistant is generally available (GA) for all users.

Read more about the release on our blog.

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2025-01-09
SDK

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Released Node SDK v4.1.0

Released v4.1.0 of the Pinecone Node.js SDK. This version adds support for index tags when creating or configuring indexes. It also adds a new RetryOnServerFailure class that automatically retries asynchronous operations with exponential backoff when the server responds with a 500 or 503 error.

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2025-01-09
General

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New Billing Admin user role

Added the Billing Admin user role. Billing Admins have permissions to view billing details, usage details, and support plans.

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2025-01-07
SDK

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Released Go SDK v2.2.0

Released v2.2.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version adds support for index tags when creating or configuring indexes.