Stay up to date with the latest Chroma updates, new features, and improvements. Here's what changed in 2026.
The platform now offers a dedicated Sync product for keeping external data sources continuously indexed, an Agent
The retrieval engine has grown to support sparse vector search (BM25 and SPLADE) alongside dense vectors, plus trigram and regex full
text search — making hybrid retrieval a first
Dataset forking has been introduced for git
The cloud platform is now SOC 2 Type II compliant, and the team has emphasized object
Adoption has crossed 15M+ monthly downloads and 27K+ GitHub stars, reinforcing Chroma's position as a default open
source choice for AI retrieval.
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Changelog last updated March 2026