7.0.0b3

Changes

Main feature introduced in this beta release is a new type of client MultiDBClient. The purpose of this client is a communication with multiple databases that are eventually consistent (Active-Active setup) and handling failures by failover across databases. More information could be found in docs.

🔥 Breaking changes

• Update ping command docstrings and method return type hint (#3789)

🚀 New Features

• Multi-database client implementation (#3784)

🧰 Maintenance

• [DOC] Add complex chaining example using pipelines with builder pattern (#3774)
• Fix automation scenarion maint notification (#3788)
• Add redis 8.4-M01-pre to tested redis versions (#3790)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@zion-off @petyaslavova @kiryazovi-redis @vladvildanov

7.0.0b2

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Adding ssl_verify_flags_config argument for ssl connection configuration (#3772)
• Adding 'auto' option to MaintNotificationsConfig.enabled (#3779)

🔥 Breaking changes

• (Breaking compared to previous beta release) Renaming of classes and configuration arguments related to maintenance push notifications handling during server upgrade or maintenance procedures (#3777 #3778)

🧰 Maintenance

• Adding more e2e tests related to maintenance notifications. Extracting specific tests that validate notifications are received in new connections (#3770)
• Renaming of classes and configuration arguments related to maintenance push notifications handling during server upgrade or maintenance procedures (#3777 #3778)
• DOC-5743 BITOP examples (#3776)
• Improve stale issue management workflow (#3773)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@petyaslavova @elena-kolevska @andy-stark-redis

7.0.0b1

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Support for maintenance push notifications handling during server upgrade or maintenance procedures. (#3756)
• Adding WITHATTRIBS option to vector set's vsim command. (#3746)

🔥 Breaking changes

• Adding abstract method declaration for cache property setter in EvictionPolicyInterface(#3732)
• Remove unused parse_list_to_dict function from helpers (#3733)
• Removing synchronous context manager handling from async RedisCluster. (#3679)
• Redis Search/Aggregate improved type annotations (#3676)
• Removing the threading.Lock locks and replacing them with RLock objects to avoid deadlocks. (#3677)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Removing the threading.Lock locks and replacing them with RLock objects to avoid deadlocks. (#3677)

🧰 Maintenance

• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 (#3760)
• Fix docstring for ssl_check_hostname (#3761)
• Typos in vectorset commands.py (#3719)
• Fixing typos in query.py (#3718)
• Typos in cluster.py (#3717)
• Fixing typos in core.py (#3720)
• Update Redis image versions for GH pipeline actions. (#3740)
• Support the customization of the timeout parameter when using a blocking connection pool with a redis cluster (#3724)
• Fix async clients safety when used as an async context manager (#3512)
• docs: fix zadd command parameter description (#3727)
• Fault injector boilerplate (#3749)
• Adding e2e scenario tests for maintenance push notifications handling. (#3758)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@scovetta @mengxunQAQ @abrookins @VincentHokie @sobolevn @hunterhogan @luka-mikec @elena-kolevska @kiryazovi-redis @petyaslavova

6.4.0

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Added epsilon property to the vsim command (#3723)

🧰 Maintenance

• Updating the latest Redis image for github pipeline testing (#3726)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@htemelski-redis @elena-kolevska @petyaslavova @vladvildanov

6.3.0

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Add support for new BITOP operations: DIFF, DIFF1, ANDOR, ONE (#3690)
• Support new VAMANA vector index type (#3702)
• Add new stream commands (#3711)
• add async Retry eq and hash & fix ExponentialWithJitterBackoff eq (#3668)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixing sentinel command execution to allow returning of actual responses when meaningful - behaviour controlled by 'return_responses' argument. (#3191)
• Annotate deprecated_args decorator to preserve wrapped function type signature (#3701)
• Fix ConnectionPool to raise MaxConnectionsError instead of Connection… (#3698)
• add async Retry eq and hash & fix ExponentialWithJitterBackoff eq (#3668)
• SentinelManagedConnection searches for new master upon connection failure (#3560) (#3601)

🧰 Maintenance

• fix: avoid instantiating a connection on repr_ (#3653)
• Fixing the return type hint for the transaction method in the standalone client. (#3660)
• Bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.48.0 to 0.49.0 (#3665)
• Dropping integration tests with Redis 6.2 from pipeline actions. (#3659)
• Remove deprecated arg from call to ClusterPipeline (#3670)
• TransactionStrategy reset: UNWATCH only when status is watching (#3671)
• KeyT for set operations (#3190)
• Removing references to old docs site 'https://redis-py.readthedocs.io/' replaced by 'https://redis.readthedocs.io/' (#3674)
• Removing unnecessary check for tests using AsyncMock (#3432)
• Updating test images for github pipeline execution (#3678)
• Updating the latest Redis image for pipeline testing (#3695)
• Bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.49.0 to 0.51.0 (#3689)
• DOC-5225 testable probabilistic dt examples (#3691)
• Update README.md (#3699)
• Convert the value to int type only if it exists in CLIENT INFO (#3688)
• Fix compatibility with latest pytest-asyncio version(1.1.0) (#3708)
• DOC-5424 time series examples (#3705)
• Adding information in connection pool class doc string for available SSLConnection class, that can be used for SSL connections (#3710)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@robertosantamaria-scopely @mahigupta @alisaifee @tzongw @earonesty @IlianIliev @ofekshenawa @andy-stark-redis @AmirHossein81Gholami @mharding-hpe @git-hulk @ngabhanenetskope @terencehonles @ManelCoutinhoSensei @petyaslavova @vladvildanov

5.3.1

Changes

🧰 Maintenance

• Allow newer PyJWT versions for branch 5.3 (#3682)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@bcmills

v6.1.1

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert wrongly changed default value for check_hostname when instantiating RedisSSLContext (#3655)
• Fixed potential deadlock from unexpected __del__ call (#3654)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@vladvildanov @petyaslavova

6.2.0

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Add dynamic_startup_nodes parameter to async RedisCluster (#3646)
• Support RESP3 with hiredis-py parser (#3648)
• [Async] Support for transactions in async RedisCluster client (#3649)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Revert wrongly changed default value for check_hostname when instantiating RedisSSLContext (#3655)
• Fixed potential deadlock from unexpected __del__ call (#3654)

🧰 Maintenance

• Update search_json_examples.ipynb: Fix the old import indexDefinition -> index_definition (#3652)
• Remove mandatory update of the CHANGES file for new PRs. Changes file will be kept for history for versions < 4.0.0 (#3645)
• Dropping Python 3.8 support as it has reached end of life (#3657)
• fix(doc): update Python print output in json doctests (#3658)
• Update redis-entraid dependency (#3661)

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@JCornat @ShubhamKaudewar @uglide @petyaslavova @vladvildanov

6.1.0

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Support for transactions in RedisCluster client (#3611)
• Add equality and hashability to Retry and backoff classes (#3628)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix RedisCluster ssl_check_hostname not set to connections. For SSL verification with ssl_cert_reqs="none", check_hostname is set to False (#3637)
  Important: The default value for the check_hostname field of RedisSSLContext has been changed as part of this PR - this is a breaking change and should not be introduced in minor versions - unfortunately, it is part of the current release.
  The breaking change is reverted in the next release to fix the behavior --> 6.2.0
• Prevent RuntimeError while reinitializing clusters - sync and async (#3633)
• Add equality and hashability to Retry and backoff classes (#3628) - fixes integration with Django RQ
• Fix AttributeError on ClusterPipeline (#3634)

🧰 Maintenance

• Updating the readme and lib version to contain the changes from the latest stable release (#3644)
• Export REDIS_MAJOR_VERSION correctly in run-tests (#3642)
• Fix matrix in hiredis-py-integration.yaml (#3641)
• Test against unstable hiredis-py (#3617)
• Adding return types for the RedisModuleCommands class (#3632)
• Updating Redis 8 test image for GH pipeline (#3639)
• Allow newer PyJWT versions (#3636)
• Change type hints with possible None args or return types to be annotated with Optional - includes commands in core.py and json commands (#3610)

🙏 Special Thanks

A big thank you to our collaborators at Scopely for their valuable contributions to this release! Your support and improvements help move the project forward — we appreciate it!

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@robertosantamaria-scopely @sentrivana @terencehonles @kesha1225 @aberres @uglide @omerfeyzioglu @petyaslavova @vladvildanov @andy-stark-redis

6.0.0

Changes

🚀 New Features

• New hash commands with expiration options support are added - HGETDEL, HGETEX, HSETEX (#3570)
• Adds option not to raise an exception when leaving context manager after lock expiration (#3531)
• Add force_master_ip support to async Sentinel client (#3524)

🧪 Experimental Features

• Adding VectorSet commands support. (#3584)

🔥 Breaking changes

• Changing the default value for ssl_check_hostname to True, to ensure security validations are not skipped by default (#3626)
  Important: When connecting to a Redis master via Sentinel, you may need to set ssl_check_hostname=False if the Sentinel service is not configured to return hostnames.
  Refer to issue #3629 for more details.
• Updated default value of 'require_full_coverage' argument to true for sync Cluster client to match sync/async cluster APIs (#3434)
• Adding default retry configuration changes for cluster clients (#3622)
  Important: When instantiating a cluster client retry object becomes mandatory.
  • If retry object is not provided a default one is created with ExponentialWithJitterBackoff strategy and number of retries synced with 'cluster_error_retry_attempts'
  • In case a retry object is provided, its number of retries will be used for cluster operations number of retries and 'cluster_error_retry_attempts' will be ignored
  • Argument 'cluster_error_retry_attempts' is now deprecated
  • For Async Cluster Client the argument 'connection_error_retry_attempts' is completely removed
• Updating default retry strategy for standalone clients. 3 retries with ExponentialWithJitterBackoff become the default config. (#3614)
• Removing 'charset' and 'errors' inputs from the Redis initialization arguments - deprecated 3 years ago. (#3608)
• Removing support for RedisGears module. (#3553). For more info you can check the deprecated Redis features
• Removing support for RedisGraph module. (#3548). For more info you can check the deprecated Redis features
• Fixing typing for FCALL commands to match PEP 484 (#3537)
• Moved ClusterParser exceptions to BaseParser class (#3475)
• Changed default dialect to 2 (#3467) - This release introduces a client-side default dialect for Redis’ search and query capabilities. By default, the client now overrides the server-side dialect with version 2, automatically appending DIALECT 2to commands like FT.AGGREGATE and FT.SEARCH.
  Important: Be aware that the query dialect may impact the results returned. If needed, you can revert to a different dialect version by configuring the client accordingly. You can find further details in the query dialect documentation.

⚠️ Deprecations

• Adding default retry configuration changes for cluster clients (#3622)
• Updating default retry strategy for standalone clients. 3 retries with ExponentialWithJitterBackoff become the default config. (#3614)
• Marks old RediSearch 1.0 commands as deprecated (#3606)
• Adding deprecation messages for the exposed in search module commands: FT.CONFIG GET and FT.CONFIG SET (#3499 #3500 )
• Deprecating Search module config_set and config_get commands. Adding tests for modules ACL and modules config changes in 8.0 (#3489)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Handling some special values when transforming response data into list (issue #3573) (#3586)
• Fixed infinitely recursive health checks (#3557)
• Fixing search module dropindex function not to send invalid third parameter. Updating pipeline infra (#3564)
• Fixing async cluster pipeline execution when client is created with cluster_error_retry_attempts=0 (#3545)
• Fix client_list with multiple client ids (#3539)
• Add valid Exception type to Except in ClusterPipeline (#3516)
• Fix #3130 TimeoutError during ClusterPipeline makes the client unrecoverable (#3513)
• Fix connection health check for protocol != 2 when auth credentials are provided and health check interval is configured (#3477)
• Fix AttributeError when client.get_default_node() returns None (#3458)
• fix: add TimeoutError handling in get_connection() (#1485)
• Avoid stacktrace on process exit in Client.del() (#3397)

🧰 Maintenance

• Updating pipeline tests to use test libs image with RC2. Updating timeseries tests. (#3623)
• Fixing flaky tests - part 2 (#3592)
• DOC-5107 added hash examples for index/query intro page (#3609)
• DOC-5073 vector set quantization and dimension reduction examples (#3597)
• Fixing some sporadically failing tests - part 1 (#3589)
• DOC-5073 added examples for vector sets intro page (#3590)
• Fix incorrect link to docs for fcall_ro command (#3576)
• Improvement: Use shutdown() Before close() in connection.py (#3567)
• Truncate pipeline exception message to a sane size (#3530)
• Docs/raae 724/remove redis ventures (#3579)
• Adding info for sentinel handling failover when Redis client is acquired with master_for() method. (#3578)
• Type hints improvements (#3420 #3480 #3522 #3526)
• Increasing the operations-per-run for stale issues GH action (#3556)
• Got rid of time.time() everywhere (#3551)
• Removing deprecated usage of forbid_global_loop=True in pytest.mark.asyncio decorator (#3542)
• allow more recent pyopenssl (#3541)
• Bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.38.0 to 0.47.0 (#3538)
• Fix LockError message when releasing a lock. (#3534)
• Fix readthedocs.yml integration(#3527 #3528 #3529)
• Adding vector search tests for types int8/uint8 (#3525)
• Adding requested resources into sdist. Fix for issue #3057 (#3511)
• maintenance: Python 3.13 compatibility (#3510)
• Adding unit test for core info command related to modules info (#3507)
• Update connection_examples.ipynb (#3504)
• Update Python imports in doc examples (index_definition => indexDefinition) (#3490)
• DOC-4736 added geo indexing examples (#3485)
• Updated test infrastructure with latest versions (#3484)
• fix: update redis university url, the old link doesn't work (#3481)
• Fix #3464: Correct misleading exception_handler example in docs (#3474)
• Added Redis 8.0 to test matrix (#3469)
• Added workflow_dispatch for pypi release workflow (#3465)
• Avoid the multiprocessing forkserver method in Python 3.14 (#3442)
• Fix inaccurate docstring for unwatch() (#3424)
• Update README.md - Fix 'Note' - bold (#3413)
• skip ssl import if not available (#3078)
• Replace flake8+isort+black with ruff (#3147)
• Fixes minor grammar nit in documentation. (#3354)

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
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