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LightRAG v1.5, released 2026-05-23, combines heavy community momentum (35k+…

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LightRAG v1.5, released 2026-05-23, combines heavy community momentum (35k+ stars, 1.1M+ downloads, 251 contributors, ~1.1k merged PRs) with six major technical upgrades: multimodal RAG, improved parsing (MinerU/Docling/DOCX), four chunking strategies, role-specific LLMs, JSON-structured extraction, and task-aware embeddings (voyage-3, text-embedding-004). GitHub: github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG

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LightRAG v1.5 is here! The biggest release ever! 🚀

35k+ GitHub ⭐ | 1.1M+ downloads | 251 contributors | 1.1k+ PRs merged

Here are the 6 major improvements:

• 📄 Multimodal Document Processing - Comprehensive indexing and Q&A for images, tables, and formulas
• 🔧 Enhanced Document Parsing - Integration with MinerU and Docling, plus native DOCX parsing
• ✂️ Four Text Chunking Strategies - Fixed / Recursive / Semantic Vector / Paragraph Semantic
• 🎭 Role-specific LLM Configuration - Independent models for EXTRACT / QUERY / KEYWORDS / VLM roles
• 📊 Enhanced Structured Extraction - JSON output and externalized entity type prompts
• 🧠 Task-aware Embeddings - Native support for asymmetric models like voyage-3 and text-embedding-004

Making RAG Simpler, Faster & More Powerful!
🔗 GitHub: github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG

Zirui Guo (@ziruiguocs)

🚀 LightRAG v1.5.0rc2 is out — 1.1K+ merged PRs, 1.1M+ downloads.

What's new:
• Multimodal RAG
• MinerU + Docling + native DOCX parsing
• 4 chunking strategies
• Role-specific LLMs
• JSON-structured extraction
• Task-aware embeddings

🔗 github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG

— https://nitter.net/ziruiguocs/status/2058069958706548765#m