## Problem `RUSTSEC-2026-0429` affects `zip 7.4.0`, which reaches the optional `sentence-transformers` feature through `candle-core 0.9.2`. The `deny` check on `main` fails on this advisory. ## Change Update `candle-core`, `candle-nn`, and `candle-transformers` to `0.11.1`. The focused lockfile resolution replaces `zip 7.4.0` with `zip 9.2.2`, and no other zip version remains in the all-features graph. This also pulls candle's required newer transitive `tokenizers` and `safetensors` releases; the directly declared `tokenizers 0.19.1` and the embedding implementation remain unchanged. The optional `sentence-transformers` Rust API exposes this dependency version: `SentenceTransformersEmbeddingsBuilder::device` accepts `D: Into<candle_core::Device>`, and the `Device` type is now from candle-core 0.11. The default CPU path constructs that device internally and is unchanged. `deny.toml` is unchanged. Its obsolete zip ignores now produce `advisory-not-detected` warnings, which do not fail the check. ## Validation - The `sentence-transformers` feature builds with tests and examples. - The existing CPU example loads the default model and retrieves `The human body has 206 bones.` for the matching query. - A local contract check verified 384-dimensional, finite, non-zero Float32 output and higher similarity for the matching fact than for an unrelated fact. It was not committed because it would add an 88 MB model download to all-features CI. - `cargo deny` `0.20.2`, the version used by the Rust workflow, passes `advisories`, `bans`, `licenses`, and `sources`. - The locally installed `cargo-deny 0.18.9` is not green: it treats informational unsound advisories differently from the workflow's `0.20.2`. The result above uses the exact CI version. - Targeted clippy, formatting, lockfile review, and the reverse `zip` dependency tree pass. - Hosted CI completed successfully for exact head `bffbcda6490fa1ed51838b3801e01ae2f82faed6`. CI mitigation: Reclaim completed lancedb CI-profile artifacts before the Blob v2 example after disk sampling showed a minimum of 24,764,416 available bytes. This may rebuild lancedb for the example; the exact OS cause of the SIGBUS remains unproven. BREAKING CHANGE: The optional `sentence-transformers` Rust API now takes `candle_core::Device` from candle-core 0.11. Downstream crates that explicitly construct and pass a candle-core 0.9 `Device` to `SentenceTransformersEmbeddingsBuilder::device` must use a `Device` from candle-core 0.11.x aligned with lancedb. This normally means updating a direct candle-core dependency; if the value comes through a re-export, update the dependency that supplies it. Callers that use the default CPU path without passing a `Device` do not need to migrate.
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Follow the Quickstart doc to set up LanceDB locally.
API & SDK: We also support Python, Typescript and Rust SDKs
| Interface | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Python SDK | https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/python/python/ |
| Typescript SDK | https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/js/globals/ |
| Rust SDK | https://docs.rs/lancedb/latest/lancedb/index.html |
| REST API | https://docs.lancedb.com/api-reference/rest |
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Check out the GitHub Issues if you would like to work on the features that are planned for the future. If you have any suggestions or feature requests, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

