diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3f5d5d5..523e87e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -722,17 +722,17 @@ checksum = "7360491ce676a36bf9bb3c56c1aa791658183a54d2744120f27285738d90465a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fastembed"
-version = "5.17.3"
+version = "6.0.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f3c8600c9ec79b51d60c19911fe14eac04fe9c2895e87d2a3e80e2213d645a32"
+checksum = "b5e6a29ef0fc303e63ce89f2b71d98bee9df51d79cbbedb78dd0d6ba9f3b172f"
 dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
  "hf-hub",
  "ndarray",
  "ort",
  "safetensors",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "thiserror",
  "tokenizers",
 ]
 
@@ -1596,9 +1596,9 @@ checksum = "04744f49eae99ab78e0d5c0b603ab218f515ea8cfe5a456d7629ad883a3b6e7d"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ort"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.12"
+version = "2.0.0-rc.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d7de3af33d24a745ffb8fab904b13478438d1cd52868e6f17735ef6e1f8bf133"
+checksum = "4336a1e2b38848325241c72889086886004e589b7c74f335e60a8e8db5138a0b"
 dependencies = [
  "ndarray",
  "ort-sys",
@@ -1609,9 +1609,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ort-sys"
-version = "2.0.0-rc.12"
+version = "2.0.0-rc.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d7b497d21a8b6fbb4b5a544f8fadb77e801a09ae0add9e411d31c6f89e3c1e90"
+checksum = "cf211e3776eea6aec988552fa118dd746d70e1b1e5e244058d1c98015f3e5872"
 dependencies = [
  "hmac-sha256",
  "lzma-rust2",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 53e4f64..36ef484 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ rayon = "1.12"
 
 # FastEmbed for semantic embeddings (optional - fallback to hash-based if not available)
 # Use rustls instead of native-tls (openssl) for TLS
-fastembed = { version = "5", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["ort-download-binaries", "hf-hub-rustls-tls"] }
+fastembed = { version = "6", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["ort-download-binaries", "hf-hub-rustls-tls"] }
 
 # usearch HNSW vector search (optional - BM25-only fallback if not available)
 # Pinned to <2.25: v2.24.x is supported since rlm-cli v1.2.4 (move-semantics fix resolved the segfault)