Maturity level changes for RAG technologies en https://ragworld.org/changes 2026-08-14 Received a level for the first time: 11 records, namely Auto-RAG, DSPy, GNN-RAG, GraphReader, KAG, Poison-RAG, RA-ISF, REPLUG and 3 more. Rose in level: ColPali from L1 to L2, RAG as Memory from L1 to L2, Speculative RAG from L1 to L2. Collected 54 pieces of evidence: 36 about publications, 13 about package downloads, 5 about repositories. The registry now holds 62 records. Level L0 in 7 records, L1 in 18, L2 in 29, L3 in 3, L4 in 1, L5 in 1. For 3 records no level is computed, because there is no evidence yet. digest-2026-08-12 Rose in level: HippoRAG from L0 to L4, Dense X from L1 to L2, Edge and On-Device RAG from L0 to L1. Collected 45 pieces of evidence: 35 about publications, 7 about package downloads, 3 about repositories. The registry now holds 53 records. Level L0 in 7 records, L1 in 17, L2 in 19, L3 in 3, L4 in 1, L5 in 1. For 5 records no level is computed, because there is no evidence yet. digest-2026-08-10 Received a level for the first time: 48 records, namely Adaptive RAG, ArchRAG, CRAG, CausalRAG, ChatQA, ColBERT, ColPali, Dense X and 40 more. Rose in level: Adaptive RAG from L1 to L2, ArchRAG from L1 to L2, CausalRAG from L0 to L3, ChatQA from L1 to L2, Federated RAG from L0 to L3, FLARE from L1 to L2, HyDE from L1 to L2, IRCoT from L1 to L2, plus 11 records. Collected 92 pieces of evidence: 65 about publications, 11 about repositories, 7 about package downloads, 5 about presence in frameworks, 4 about industrial use. The registry now holds 54 records. Level L0 in 9 records, L1 in 17, L2 in 18, L3 in 3, L5 in 1. For 6 records no level is computed, because there is no evidence yet. digest-2026-08-09 industrial_use https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/vector-search/ai-search/hybrid-search/, industrial_use https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/hybrid-queries/ standard_hybridrag-2026-08-14-L2 framework_presence https://api.github.com/repos/langchain-ai/langchain, publication https://openalex.org/W4252076394 bm25_sparse-2026-08-14-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28344, publication https://openalex.org/W7166706851 pixelrag-2026-08-13-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12323, publication https://openalex.org/W4415270293, repository https://github.com/HKUDS/RAG-Anything rag_anything-2026-08-13-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04302, publication https://openalex.org/W4399932275 cbr_rag-2026-08-13-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07595, publication https://openalex.org/W7154505616 roza_graphs-2026-08-13-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449, publication https://openalex.org/W4400373146, publication https://paperswithcode.co/api/v1/papers/2407.01449 colpali-2026-08-12-L2 publication https://paperswithcode.co/api/v1/papers/2004.04906 naive_dense-2026-08-12-L2 publication https://openalex.org/W4407831980, publication https://openalex.org/W7135244490, publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14802, publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11768, publication https://paperswithcode.co/api/v1/papers/2502.14802 rag_as_memory-2026-08-12-L2 publication https://openalex.org/W4400611538, publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08223, publication https://paperswithcode.co/api/v1/papers/2407.08223 speculative_rag-2026-08-12-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22042, publication https://openalex.org/W7171352433 lamar-2026-08-12-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24223, publication https://openalex.org/W7171505919, repository https://github.com/LeqsNaN/RARG rarg-2026-08-12-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02583, publication https://openalex.org/W7172392400 uembed-2026-08-12-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19443, publication https://openalex.org/W4405030361 auto_rag-2026-08-10-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03714, publication https://openalex.org/W4387430850 dspy-2026-08-10-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20139, publication https://openalex.org/W4399253046 gnn_rag-2026-08-10-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14550, publication https://openalex.org/W4404781346 graphreader-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13731, publication https://openalex.org/W4410636953 kag-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11759, publication https://openalex.org/W4409166754 poison_rag-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06840, publication https://openalex.org/W4402670862 ra_isf-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12652, publication https://openalex.org/W4401042773 replug-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17952, publication https://openalex.org/W4411119264 simrag-2026-08-10-L2 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07697, publication https://openalex.org/W4384643740 think_on_graph-2026-08-10-L1 repository https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/HippoRAG, package_downloads https://pypi.org/project/hipporag/, publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14831, publication https://openalex.org/W4415797504, package_downloads https://pypi.org/project/hipporag/ hipporag-2026-08-09-L4 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06648, publication https://openalex.org/W4389713732, publication https://openalex.org/W4404783040 dense_x_retrieval-2026-08-09-L2 publication https://openalex.org/W7129328134, publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13229 edge-2026-08-09-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14403 adaptive_rag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09891 archrag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15884 crag-2026-08-08-L1 repository https://github.com/hippoley/CausalRAG causalrag-2026-08-08-L0 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10225 chatqa-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12832 colbert-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449 colpali-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06648 dense_x_retrieval-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21023 edgerag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06983 flare-2026-08-08-L1 repository https://github.com/DocAILab/FedE4RAG federated_rag-2026-08-08-L0 repository https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/HippoRAG hipporag-2026-08-08-L0 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496 hyde-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10509 ircot-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19773 late_chunking-2026-08-08-L1 repository https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG lightrag-2026-08-08-L0 repository https://github.com/qhjqhj00/MemoRAG memorag-2026-08-08-L0 repository https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag msft_graphrag-2026-08-08-L0 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02928 murag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15235 og_rag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14902 pathrag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07867 poisonedrag-2026-08-08-L1 publication https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01352 ra_dit-2026-08-08-L1 repository https://github.com/DavidZWZ/Awesome-RAG-Reasoning test_time-2026-08-08-L0