@pinecone-database/pinecone breaking changes

9.0.0

250 breaking changes, first published September 9, 2026.

• Removed
  Node.js 20 is no longer supported. Upgrade the runtime to Node.js 22 or later before installing v9. github.com
• Removed
  Install and run v9 on Node.js 22 or newer. Node 20 is untested and unsupported in v9. github.com
• Removed BackupModel.dimension
  Read dimension and metric from schema instead of the top-level backup object. npmjs.com
• Removed BackupModel.metric
  BackupModel.metric was removed in @pinecone-database/pinecone 9.0.0 npmjs.com
• Removed BackupPaginationResponse
  Replace BackupPaginationResponse with BackupListPagination. npmjs.com
• Removed BYOC2
  BYOC2 was removed in @pinecone-database/pinecone 9.0.0 npmjs.com
• Removed ByocSpec
  Use the native deployment object instead of this v8 spec type. npmjs.com
• Removed ConfigureIndexOptions.embed
  Update an existing semantic field through a schema.fields patch, or use pc.indexes.createForModel to create an integrated-embedding index. npmjs.com
• Removed ConfigureIndexRequestEmbed
  Replace ConfigureIndexRequestEmbed with PatchSemanticTextField. npmjs.com
• Removed ConfigureIndexRequestSpec
  Replace ConfigureIndexRequestSpec with PatchIndexDeploymentRequest. npmjs.com

And 240 more in this version.

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