9.18.0-beta.1

pre-release v9.18.0-beta.1

🚀 Highlights

Request and Response Policy Based Routing in Cluster Mode

This beta release introduces comprehensive support for Redis COMMAND-based request and response policy routing for cluster clients. This feature enables intelligent command routing and response aggregation based on Redis command metadata.

Key Features:

• Command Policy Loader: Automatically parses and caches COMMAND metadata with routing/aggregation hints
• Enhanced Routing Engine: Supports all request policies including:
  • default(keyless) - Commands without keys
  • default(hashslot) - Commands with hash slot routing
  • all_shards - Commands that need to run on all shards
  • all_nodes - Commands that need to run on all nodes
  • multi_shard - Commands that span multiple shards
  • special - Commands with custom routing logic
• Response Aggregator: Intelligently combines multi-shard replies based on response policies:
  • all_succeeded - All shards must succeed
  • one_succeeded - At least one shard must succeed
  • agg_sum - Aggregate numeric responses
  • special - Custom aggregation logic (e.g., FT.CURSOR)
• Raw Command Support: Policies are enforced on Client.Do(ctx, args...)

This feature is particularly useful for Redis Stack commands like RediSearch that need to operate across multiple shards in a cluster.

Connection Pool Improvements

Fixed a critical defect in the connection pool's turn management mechanism that could lead to connection leaks under certain conditions. The fix ensures proper 1:1 correspondence between turns and connections.

✨ New Features

• Request and Response Policy Based Routing in Cluster Mode (#3422) by @ofekshenawa

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed connection pool turn management to prevent connection leaks (#3626) by @cyningsun

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0 (#3627)

👥 Contributors

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

@cyningsun, @ofekshenawa, @ndyakov

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 (#3626) by @cyningsun
• Context Timeout: Improved context timeout calculation to use minimum of remaining time and DialTimeout, preventing goroutines from waiting longer than necessary (#3626) by @cyningsun

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.54.0 to 0.55.0 (#3627)

Contributors

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

@cyningsun and @ndyakov

9.17.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• add wait to keyless commands list (#3615) by @marcoferrer
• fix(time): remove cached time optimization (#3611) by @ndyakov

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 (#3609)
• chore(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#3610)
• chore(script): fix help call in tag.sh (#3606) by @ndyakov

Contributors

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

@marcoferrer and @ndyakov

9.17.0

🚀 Highlights

Redis 8.4 Support

Added support for Redis 8.4, including new commands and features (#3572)

Typed Errors

Introduced typed errors for better error handling using errors.As instead of string checks. Errors can now be wrapped and set to commands in hooks without breaking library functionality (#3602)

New Commands

• CAS/CAD Commands: Added support for Compare-And-Set/Compare-And-Delete operations with conditional matching (IFEQ, IFNE, IFDEQ, IFDNE) (#3583, #3595)
• MSETEX: Atomically set multiple key-value pairs with expiration options and conditional modes (#3580)
• XReadGroup CLAIM: Consume both incoming and idle pending entries from streams in a single call (#3578)
• ACL Commands: Added ACLGenPass, ACLUsers, and ACLWhoAmI (#3576)
• SLOWLOG Commands: Added SLOWLOG LEN and SLOWLOG RESET (#3585)
• LATENCY Commands: Added LATENCY LATEST and LATENCY RESET (#3584)

Search & Vector Improvements

• Hybrid Search: Added EXPERIMENTAL support for the new FT.HYBRID command (#3573)
• Vector Range: Added VRANGE command for vector sets (#3543)
• FT.INFO Enhancements: Added vector-specific attributes in FT.INFO response (#3596)

Connection Pool Improvements

• Improved Connection Success Rate: Implemented FIFO queue-based fairness and context pattern for connection creation to prevent premature cancellation under high concurrency (#3518)
• Connection State Machine: Resolved race conditions and improved pool performance with proper state tracking (#3559)
• Pool Performance: Significant performance improvements with faster semaphores, lockless hook manager, and reduced allocations (47-67% faster Get/Put operations) (#3565)

Metrics & Observability

• Canceled Metric Attribute: Added 'canceled' metrics attribute to distinguish context cancellation errors from other errors (#3566)

✨ New Features

• Typed errors with wrapping support (#3602) by @ndyakov
• CAS/CAD commands (marked as experimental) (#3583, #3595) by @ndyakov, @htemelski-redis
• MSETEX command support (#3580) by @ofekshenawa
• XReadGroup CLAIM argument (#3578) by @ofekshenawa
• ACL commands: GenPass, Users, WhoAmI (#3576) by @destinyoooo
• SLOWLOG commands: LEN, RESET (#3585) by @destinyoooo
• LATENCY commands: LATEST, RESET (#3584) by @destinyoooo
• Hybrid search command (FT.HYBRID) (#3573) by @htemelski-redis
• Vector range command (VRANGE) (#3543) by @cxljs
• Vector-specific attributes in FT.INFO (#3596) by @ndyakov
• Improved connection pool success rate with FIFO queue (#3518) by @cyningsun
• Canceled metrics attribute for context errors (#3566) by @pvragov

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Failover Client MaintNotificationsConfig (#3600) by @ajax16384
• Fixed ACLGenPass function to use the bit parameter (#3597) by @destinyoooo
• Return error instead of panic from commands (#3568) by @dragneelfps
• Safety harness in joinErrors to prevent panic (#3577) by @manisharma

⚡ Performance

• Connection state machine with race condition fixes (#3559) by @ndyakov
• Pool performance improvements: 47-67% faster Get/Put, 33% less memory, 50% fewer allocations (#3565) by @ndyakov

🧪 Testing & Infrastructure

• Updated to Redis 8.4.0 image (#3603) by @ndyakov
• Added Redis 8.4-RC1-pre to CI (#3572) by @ndyakov
• Refactored tests for idiomatic Go (#3561, #3562, #3563) by @12ya

👥 Contributors

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

@12ya, @ajax16384, @cxljs, @cyningsun, @destinyoooo, @dragneelfps, @htemelski-redis, @manisharma, @ndyakov, @ofekshenawa, @pvragov

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Full Changelog: v9.16.0...v9.17.0

9.16.0

🚀 Highlights

Maintenance Notifications Support

This release introduces comprehensive support for Redis maintenance notifications, enabling applications to handle server maintenance events gracefully. The new maintnotifications package provides:

• RESP3 Push Notifications: Full support for Redis RESP3 protocol push notifications
• Connection Handoff: Automatic connection migration during server maintenance with configurable retry policies and circuit breakers
• Graceful Degradation: Configurable timeout relaxation during maintenance windows to prevent false failures
• Event-Driven Architecture: Background workers with on-demand scaling for efficient handoff processing

For detailed usage examples and configuration options, see the maintenance notifications documentation.

✨ New Features

• Trace Filtering: Add support for filtering traces for specific commands, including pipeline operations and dial operations (#3519, #3550)
  • New TraceCmdFilter option to selectively trace commands
  • Reduces overhead by excluding high-frequency or low-value commands from traces

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pipeline Error Handling: Fix issue where pipeline repeatedly sets the same error (#3525)
• Connection Pool: Ensure re-authentication does not interfere with connection handoff operations (#3547)

🔧 Improvements

• Hash Commands: Update hash command implementations (#3523)
• OpenTelemetry: Use metric.WithAttributeSet to avoid unnecessary attribute copying in redisotel (#3552)

📚 Documentation

• Cluster Client: Add explanation for why MaxRetries is disabled for ClusterClient (#3551)

🧪 Testing & Infrastructure

• E2E Testing: Upgrade E2E testing framework with improved reliability and coverage (#3541)
• Release Process: Improved resiliency of the release process (#3530)

📦 Dependencies

• Bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.51.0 to 0.52.0 (#3520)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 (#3544)

👥 Contributors

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

@ndyakov, @htemelski-redis, @Sovietaced, @Udhayarajan, @boekkooi-impossiblecloud, @Pika-Gopher, @cxljs, @huiyifyj, @omid-h70

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Full Changelog: v9.14.0...v9.16.0

9.14.1

Changes

• fix(otel): Add support for filtering traces for certain commands (#3519)
• fix(pool): remove conn from idleConns if present (#3546)

Contributors

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

@Sovietaced, @ndyakov

9.16.0-beta.1

Clean state beta release, retracting 9.15.0

Retract v9.15.0 and v9.15.1

version 9.15.1, used to retract itself and 9.15.0 (#3537)

* version 9.15.1, used to retract itself and 9.15.0

* added retract to the submodules

* revert submodules retracts as they are not needed

9.15.0-beta.3

Changes

Same as v9.15.0-beta.2
Retracts v9.15.0

9.15.0-beta.2

Highlights

This beta release includes a pre-production version of processing push notifications and hitless upgrades.

Changes

• chore: Update hash_commands.go (#3523)

🚀 New Features

• feat: RESP3 notifications support & Hitless notifications handling (#3418)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• fix: pipeline repeatedly sets the error (#3525)

🧰 Maintenance

• chore(deps): bump rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions from 0.51.0 to 0.52.0 (#3520)
• feat(e2e-testing): maintnotifications e2e and refactor (#3526)
• feat(tag.sh): Improved resiliency of the release process (#3530)

Contributors

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

@cxljs, @ndyakov, @htemelski-redis, and @omid-h70