diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fc77a3f..8bed9d0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
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-checksum = "b1f45e9417d87227c7a56d22e471c6206462cba514c7590c09aff4cf6d1ddcad"
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- "serde",
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+version = "0.16.2"
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  "libc",
  "once_cell",
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- "windows-sys 0.59.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
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 [[package]]
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 [[package]]
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- "number_prefix",
  "portable-atomic",
  "unicode-width",
+ "unit-prefix",
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-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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-dependencies = [
- "rustversion",
-]
-
 [[package]]
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-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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-dependencies = [
- "autocfg",
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-
 [[package]]
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@@ -1869,12 +1848,6 @@ dependencies = [
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-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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-
 [[package]]
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@@ -2219,9 +2192,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "1.9.0"
+version = "1.10.0"
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-checksum = "bee689443a2bd0a16ab0348b52ee43e3b2d1b1f931c8aa5c9f8de4c86fbe8c40"
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@@ -2270,37 +2243,32 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.28.0"
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-checksum = "f402062616ab18202ae8319da13fa4279883a2b8a9d9f83f20dbade813ce1884"
+checksum = "fcf3ccafdf54c050be48a3a086d372f77ba6615f5057211607cd30e5ac5cec6d"
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- "indoc",
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  "pyo3-ffi",
  "pyo3-macros",
- "unindent",
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 [[package]]
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-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.28.0"
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-checksum = "b14b5775b5ff446dd1056212d778012cbe8a0fbffd368029fd9e25b514479c38"
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- "once_cell",
  "target-lexicon",
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-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.28.0"
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-checksum = "9ab5bcf04a2cdcbb50c7d6105de943f543f9ed92af55818fd17b660390fc8636"
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 [[package]]
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-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.28.0"
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-checksum = "0fd24d897903a9e6d80b968368a34e1525aeb719d568dba8b3d4bfa5dc67d453"
+checksum = "11ce9cc8d81b3c4969748807604d92b4eef363c5bb82b1a1bdb34ec6f1093a18"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "pyo3-macros-backend",
@@ -2320,9 +2288,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.22.6"
+version = "0.28.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "36c011a03ba1e50152b4b394b479826cad97e7a21eb52df179cd91ac411cbfbe"
+checksum = "eaf4b60036a154d23282679b658e3cc7d88d3b8c9a40b43824785f232d2e1b98"
 dependencies = [
  "heck",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -2373,7 +2341,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustc-hash",
  "rustls",
  "socket2 0.6.1",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
  "web-time",
@@ -2395,7 +2363,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustls",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "slab",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "tinyvec",
  "tracing",
  "web-time",
@@ -2547,7 +2515,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.1.4"
+version = "0.1.5"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-trait",
@@ -2568,7 +2536,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "pyo3",
  "qdrant-client",
  "rayon",
- "reqwest 0.13.1",
+ "reqwest 0.13.2",
  "rmp-serde",
  "serde",
  "serde_bytes",
@@ -2578,7 +2546,7 @@ dependencies = [
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  "tantivy",
  "tempfile",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "tokenizers",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-test",
@@ -2612,7 +2580,7 @@ checksum = "a4e608c6638b9c18977b00b475ac1f28d14e84b27d8d42f70e0bf1e3dec127ac"
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  "getrandom 0.2.17",
  "libredox",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
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 [[package]]
@@ -2688,9 +2656,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
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-version = "0.13.1"
+version = "0.13.2"
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-checksum = "04e9018c9d814e5f30cc16a0f03271aeab3571e609612d9fe78c1aa8d11c2f62"
+checksum = "ab3f43e3283ab1488b624b44b0e988d0acea0b3214e694730a055cb6b2efa801"
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  "bytes",
@@ -3277,7 +3245,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tantivy-stacker",
  "tantivy-tokenizer-api",
  "tempfile",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "time",
  "uuid",
  "winapi",
@@ -3379,15 +3347,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "0.12.16"
+version = "0.13.4"
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-checksum = "61c41af27dd6d1e27b1b16b489db798443478cef1f06a660c96db617ba5de3b1"
+checksum = "b1dd07eb858a2067e2f3c7155d54e929265c264e6f37efe3ee7a8d1b5a1dd0ba"
 
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-version = "3.24.0"
+version = "3.25.0"
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-checksum = "655da9c7eb6305c55742045d5a8d2037996d61d8de95806335c7c86ce0f82e9c"
+checksum = "0136791f7c95b1f6dd99f9cc786b91bb81c3800b639b3478e561ddb7be95e5f1"
 dependencies = [
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  "getrandom 0.3.4",
@@ -3407,11 +3375,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.17"
+version = "2.0.18"
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-checksum = "f63587ca0f12b72a0600bcba1d40081f830876000bb46dd2337a3051618f4fc8"
+checksum = "4288b5bcbc7920c07a1149a35cf9590a2aa808e0bc1eafaade0b80947865fbc4"
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- "thiserror-impl 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror-impl 2.0.18",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3427,9 +3395,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
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-version = "2.0.17"
+version = "2.0.18"
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-checksum = "3ff15c8ecd7de3849db632e14d18d2571fa09dfc5ed93479bc4485c7a517c913"
+checksum = "ebc4ee7f67670e9b64d05fa4253e753e016c6c95ff35b89b7941d6b856dec1d5"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
@@ -3504,9 +3472,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokenizers"
-version = "0.21.4"
+version = "0.22.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a620b996116a59e184c2fa2dfd8251ea34a36d0a514758c6f966386bd2e03476"
+checksum = "b238e22d44a15349529690fb07bd645cf58149a1b1e44d6cb5bd1641ff1a6223"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "aho-corasick",
@@ -3530,7 +3498,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "spm_precompiled",
- "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "thiserror 2.0.18",
  "unicode-normalization-alignments",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "unicode_categories",
@@ -3797,10 +3765,10 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
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 [[package]]
-name = "unindent"
-version = "0.2.4"
+name = "unit-prefix"
+version = "0.5.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "7264e107f553ccae879d21fbea1d6724ac785e8c3bfc762137959b5802826ef3"
+checksum = "81e544489bf3d8ef66c953931f56617f423cd4b5494be343d9b9d3dda037b9a3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unsafe-libyaml"
@@ -3876,9 +3844,9 @@ checksum = "b6c140620e7ffbb22c2dee59cafe6084a59b5ffc27a8859a5f0d494b5d52b6be"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "uuid"
-version = "1.19.0"
+version = "1.20.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e2e054861b4bd027cd373e18e8d8d8e6548085000e41290d95ce0c373a654b4a"
+checksum = "ee48d38b119b0cd71fe4141b30f5ba9c7c5d9f4e7a3a8b4a674e4b6ef789976f"
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  "js-sys",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8f7856e..a3d72d7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ required-features = ["vdreamteam"]
 # Python Bindings (optional)
 # Note: pyo3 0.23+ deprecated Python::with_gil and allow_threads (use attach/detach instead)
 # Pinned to 0.22.x until code is updated to use new API
-pyo3 = { version = "0.22", features = ["extension-module"], optional = true }
+pyo3 = { version = "0.28", features = ["extension-module"], optional = true }
 
 # Serialization
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ serde_bytes = "0.11"
 
 # Binary serialization (faster than JSON for embeddings)
 # Note: bincode 2.0+ has completely new API, code uses 1.x serialize()/deserialize()
-bincode = "1.3"
+bincode = "3.0"
 
 # MessagePack serialization (compact binary format)
 rmp-serde = "1.3"
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ dirs = "6"
 ort = { version = "2.0.0-rc.11", optional = true }
 
 # HuggingFace tokenizers
-tokenizers = { version = "0.21", optional = true }
+tokenizers = { version = "0.22", optional = true }
 
 # NDArray for tensor operations (must match ort's ndarray version)
 ndarray = { version = "0.17", optional = true }
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ serde_yaml = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio-test = "0.4"
-tempfile = "3.10"
+tempfile = "3.25"
 pretty_assertions = "1.4"
 criterion = { version = "0.8", features = ["async_tokio"] }
-proptest = "1.4"
+proptest = "1.10"
 
 # ============================================================================
 # FEATURES