RELEASE-NOTES.md

Lettuce 7.0.0.BETA1 RELEASE NOTES

The Lettuce team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Lettuce 7.0!

The release focuses on introducing hitless upgrades functionality, API improvements, and cleanup of deprecated features.

Key changes include:

• Introduction of hitless upgrades support for graceful maintenance event handling
• Enhanced JSON API with string-based access to avoid unnecessary conversions
• Removal of multiple deprecated APIs and options as part of the major version upgrade As part of the 7.0 line, this beta also removes several deprecated APIs and options.

Lettuce 7.0.0.BETA1 supports Redis 2.6+ up to Redis 8.x and requires Java 8 or newer. The driver is tested against Redis 8.2, 8.0, 7.4, and 7.2.

Thanks to all contributors who made Lettuce 7.0.0.BETA1 possible!

If you need any support, meet Lettuce at

• GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/lettuce-io/lettuce-core/discussions
• Stack Overflow (Questions): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lettuce
• Join the chat at https://discord.gg/redis and look for the "Help:Tools Lettuce" channel
• GitHub Issues (Bug reports, feature requests): https://github.com/lettuce-io/lettuce-core/issues
• Documentation: https://lettuce.io/core/7.0.0.BETA1/reference/
• Javadoc: https://lettuce.io/core/7.0.0.BETA1/api/

Changes

🔥 Breaking Changes

• chore: remove usage of deprecated connection methods in command APIs in integration tests (#3328, #3343)
• Remove deprecated dnsResolver option (#3328, #3333)
• Remove deprecated reset() method from Lettuce API and internals (#3395)
• Make Utility Class constructor private to enforce noninstantiability (#3266)
• Enable adaptive refresh by default (#3249, #3316)
• Remove deprecated code from ISSUE #1314 (#3328, #3351)
• chore: deprecated withPassword(String) method (#3328, #3350)
• Remove deprecated Utf8StringCodec class (#3328, #3389)
• chore: remove deprecated default timeout from AbstractRedisClient (#3328, #3344)
• chore: remove deprecated ClientOptions#cancelCommandsOnReconnectFailure (#3328, #3346)

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🚀 New Features

• Add String-based JSON API to avoid unnecessary conversions (#3369, #3394)
• React to maintenance events (#3345, #3354)

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• Timeouts seen during endpoint re-bind and migrate (#3426)
• Fix a NullPointerException in DelegateJsonObject (#3417, #3418)

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💡 Other

• Return name method to ProtocolKeyword public interface (#3424)
• Refactor JsonValue to Object mapping (#3412, #3413)
• Using non-native transports with SocketOptions should cause an error (#3279)

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Full Changelog: 6.8.0.RELEASE...7.0.0.BETA1