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 alongside where to filter results:

const results = await actions.searchProducts({
    search: "wireless headphones",
    where: {
        // optional additional filters
    }
});

The search automatically handles:

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

Learn more in the Actions documentation.

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!