Missing features not documented

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Fully Undocumented Features (no Learn/Guide page)

New Endpoints:

• Fields endpoint (POST /indexes/{uid}/fields) - v1.33 - Returns detailed metadata about all fields. API ref exists, no conceptual docs.
• Export (POST /export) - v1.16 - Migrate data between instances. API ref only, no Learn page.
• Index Compaction (POST /indexes/{uid}/compact) - v1.23 - Defragment LMDB. API ref only.
• Task queue compaction - No documentation.
• Edit documents by function (POST /indexes/{uid}/documents/edit) - v1.10 - Edit with Rhai function. API ref only, experimental.
• Join: Cross-index document hydration with Foreign Keys - v1.39 - Brand new, settings endpoints exist, no Learn page.

New Ranking Rules:

• attributeRank and wordPosition - v1.36 - attribute split into two new ranking rules.

New Search Parameters:

• showPerformanceDetails - v1.35 - Return detailed performance metrics.
• useNetwork - v1.34 - Search across entire network.
• media - Multimodal/image search parameter.
• personalize - Personalization context for search results.
• federation.page / federation.hitsPerPage - v1.34 - Federated search pagination.
• federation.showPerformanceDetails - v1.35.
• exhaustiveFacetCount - v1.14.

Filter Operators:

• CONTAINS - v1.10 - Experimental partial string matching.
• STARTS WITH - v1.11, stabilized v1.17.
• Lexicographic string filters - v1.15.

Full-text search:

• Full-text search in general needs better documentation coverage.

Under-documented Features

Network/Sharding:

• Replicated Sharding + Network-wide Search - v1.37 Enterprise.
• _shard filter - v1.37.
• POST /network/control - v1.30 - Dynamic topology changes.

Embedder Enhancements:

• Composite embedders - v1.14 - Different embedders for search vs indexing.
• searchFragments / indexingFragments - Multimodal fragment config.
• binaryQuantized embedder setting - v1.11.
• documentTemplateMaxBytes - v1.11.

Document API Enhancements:

• skipCreation=true query parameter - v1.31.
• customMetadata query parameter - v1.26.
• Meili-Include-Metadata header - v1.24.

Task/Batch Enhancements:

• reverse query parameter on GET /tasks - v1.12.
• progressTrace field in batches - v1.20.

Settings Enhancements:

• typoTolerance.disableOnNumbers - v1.15.
• Filterable attributes granular features (facetSearch, filter.equality, filter.comparison) - v1.14.

Enterprise Features:

• Snapshot on S3 - v1.31.
• AWS IRSA authentication - v1.31.
• Read-Only Admin key - v1.16.

CLI Flags / Env Vars (changelog only):

• MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_ALLOWED_IP_NETWORKS - v1.34
• MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_DISABLE_FID_BASED_DATABASES_CLEANUP - v1.32
• MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_CONFIG_EMBEDDER_FAILURE_MODES - v1.26
• MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_REST_EMBEDDER_TIMEOUT_SECONDS - v1.26
• MEILI_EXPERIMENTAL_REMOTE_SEARCH_TIMEOUT_SECONDS - v1.22
• experimental-dumpless-upgrade - v1.13
• experimental-nb-searches-per-core - v1.10
• experimental-drop-search-after - v1.10
• experimental-limit-batched-tasks-total-size - v1.16