Redis Release notes and new features

go-redis 9.23.0

This is a minor release. It contains everything from 9.23.0-beta.1, so these notes cover the full 9.22.0 → 9.23.0 upgrade. ⚠️ Changes to check when you upgrade from 9.22.0: - Go 1.26 is now the minimum Go version . The go directive of the root module and of the submodules moved from 1.24 to 1.26, as part of the dependency bumps for govulncheck findings.

go-redis 9.22.0

This is a minor release introducing two flagship (experimental) features , client-side caching and automatic pipelining , alongside support for Redis 8.10, new commands, and a large batch of stability and parser-robustness fixes. It consolidates everything shipped in 9.22.0-beta.1, so the notes below cover the full 9.21.0 → 9.22.0 upgrade.

go-redis 9.21.0

This is a minor release adding new features and bug fixes. There are no breaking changes; upgrading from 9.20.x is a drop-in replacement. 🚀 Highlights Zero-copy GetToBuffer / SetFromBuffer Two new StringCmdable methods let callers read and write Redis string values directly into and from pre-allocated byte buffers, eliminating the per-call payload...

go-redis 9.20.1

This is a patch release containing bug fixes only. There are no new features or breaking changes; upgrading from 9.20.0 is a drop-in replacement. 🚀 Highlights RESP3 pub/sub message loss fixed PeekPushNotificationName previously inspected only the bytes already buffered by bufio, so when a push frame header straddled a buffer fill boundary it could return a...

go-redis 9.20.0

🚀 Highlights Redis 8.8 Support This release adds support for Redis 8.8. The README's supported-versions list now includes Redis 8.8 alongside 8.0/8.2/8.4, and CI exercises the 8.8 client-libs-test image across the full suite (Makefile, build workflow, doctests, run-tests action, and docker-compose).

go-redis 9.19.0

🚀 Highlights FIPS-Compatible Script Helper Script now supports a FIPS-safe execution mode that avoids client-side SHA-1 computation, which is blocked in strict FIPS environments. A new NewScriptServerSHA constructor uses SCRIPT LOAD to obtain and cache the digest from the server, then runs commands via EVALSHA/EVALSHA_RO.

go-redis 9.18.0

Redis 8.6 Support Added support for Redis 8.6, including new commands and features for streams idempotent production and HOTKEYS. Smart Client Handoff (Maintenance Notifications) for Cluster This release introduces comprehensive support for Redis Enterprise Cluster maintenance notifications via SMIGRATING/SMIGRATED push notifications.

go-redis 9.17.3

🐛 Bug Fixes - Connection Pool: Fixed zombie wantConn elements accumulation in wantConnQueue that could cause resource leaks in high concurrency scenarios with dial failures by @cyningsun - Stream Commands: Fixed XADD and XTRIM commands to use exact threshold (=) when Approx is false, ensuring precise stream trimming behavior by @ndyakov - Connection Pool...

go-redis 9.17.2

🐛 Bug Fixes - Connection Pool: Fixed critical race condition in turn management that could cause connection leaks when dial goroutines complete after request timeout by @cyningsun - Context Timeout: Improved context timeout calculation to use minimum of remaining time and DialTimeout, preventing goroutines from waiting longer than necessary by @cyningsun...

go-redis 9.17.1

🐛 Bug Fixes - add wait to keyless commands list by @marcoferrer - fix(time): remove cached time optimization by @ndyakov 🧰 Maintenance - chore(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 - chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 - chore(script): fix help call in tag.sh by @ndyakov Contributors We'd like to thank all the...

go-redis 9.17.0

🚀 Highlights Redis 8.4 Support Added support for Redis 8.4, including new commands and features Typed Errors Introduced typed errors for better error handling using errors.As instead of string checks.

go-redis 9.16.0

🚀 Highlights Maintenance Notifications Support This release introduces comprehensive support for Redis maintenance notifications, enabling applications to handle server maintenance events gracefully.

go-redis 9.14.1

Changes - fix(otel): Add support for filtering traces for certain commands - fix(pool): remove conn from idleConns if present Contributors We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release! @Sovietaced, @ndyakov

Retract v9.15.0 and v9.15.1