16 January, 2026

This release brings powerful new features for searching, organizing your codebase, and seeding your database.

Full-Text Search with @searchable

You can now add full-text search capabilities to your list actions using the new @searchable attribute. This creates optimized PostgreSQL indexes using both tsvector (for word matching) and trigram (for partial/fuzzy matching) to provide fast and relevant search results.

model Product {
    fields {
        name Text
        description Text
        sku Text
    }
 
    actions {
        list searchProducts() {
            @searchable(name, description)
        }
    }
}

When using the API, you can now pass a search parameter to filter results:

const results = await actions.searchProducts({
    where: {
        search: "wireless headphones"
    }
});

The search automatically handles:

• Multi-word queries (matches all words)
• Partial matching (finds "head" in "headphones")
• Relevancy ranking (exact matches score higher)

Modular Project Structure

For larger projects, you can now organize your Keel schema into modules. Each module lives in its own directory under modules/ and contains its own .keel files and functions.

my-project/
├── keelconfig.yaml
├── modules/
│   ├── customers/
│   │   ├── customers.keel
│   │   └── functions/
│   │       └── createCustomer.ts
│   └── orders/
│       ├── orders.keel
│       └── functions/
│           └── createOrder.ts
└── schema.keel

Models defined in one module can reference models from other modules:

// modules/orders/orders.keel
model Order {
    fields {
        orderNumber Text @unique
        total Number
        customer Customer  // References Customer from customers module
    }
}

This helps teams work on different parts of the system without conflicts and keeps related code together.

Performance Improvements

We've made significant performance improvements to the Keel CLI:

• 7x faster schema validation - The keel validate command now runs up to 7x faster! This means quicker feedback during development.

Fixes and Improvements

For a full list of fixes and improvements, check out our GitHub releases page (opens in a new tab).

For any issues or feedback, please contact us at help@keel.so.

Thank you for using Keel!