go-redis/RELEASE-NOTES.md

Release Notes

9.10.0 (2025-06-06)

🚀 Highlights

go-redis now supports vector sets. This data type is marked as "in preview" in Redis and its support in go-redis is marked as experimental. You can find examples in the documentation and in the doctests folder.

Changes

🚀 New Features

• feat: support vectorset (#3375)

🧰 Maintenance

• Add the missing NewFloatSliceResult for testing (#3393)
• DOC-5078 vector set examples (#3394)

Contributors

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

@AndBobsYourUncle, @andy-stark-redis, @fukua95 and @ndyakov

9.9.0 (2025-05-27)

🚀 Highlights

• Token-based Authentication: Added StreamingCredentialsProvider for dynamic credential updates (experimental)
  • Can be used with go-redis-entraid for Azure AD authentication
• Connection Statistics: Added connection waiting statistics for better monitoring
• Failover Improvements: Added ParseFailoverURL for easier failover configuration
• Ring Client Enhancements: Added shard access methods for better Pub/Sub management

✨ New Features

• Added StreamingCredentialsProvider for token-based authentication (#3320)
  • Supports dynamic credential updates
  • Includes connection close hooks
  • Note: Currently marked as experimental
• Added ParseFailoverURL for parsing failover URLs (#3362)
• Added connection waiting statistics (#2804)
• Added new utility functions:
  • ParseFloat and MustParseFloat in public utils package (#3371)
  • Unit tests for Atoi, ParseInt, ParseUint, and ParseFloat (#3377)
• Added Ring client shard access methods:
  • GetShardClients() to retrieve all active shard clients
  • GetShardClientForKey(key string) to get the shard client for a specific key (#3388)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed routing reads to loading slave nodes (#3370)
• Added support for nil lag in XINFO GROUPS (#3369)
• Fixed pool acquisition timeout issues (#3381)
• Optimized unnecessary copy operations (#3376)

📚 Documentation

• Updated documentation for XINFO GROUPS with nil lag support (#3369)
• Added package-level comments for new features

⚡ Performance and Reliability

• Optimized ReplaceSpaces function (#3383)
• Set default value for Options.Protocol in init() (#3387)
• Exported pool errors for public consumption (#3380)

🔧 Dependencies and Infrastructure

• Updated Redis CI to version 8.0.1 (#3372)
• Updated spellcheck GitHub Actions (#3389)
• Removed unused parameters (#3382, #3384)

🧪 Testing

• Added unit tests for pool acquisition timeout (#3381)
• Added unit tests for utility functions (#3377)

👥 Contributors

We would like to thank all the contributors who made this release possible:

@ndyakov, @ofekshenawa, @LINKIWI, @iamamirsalehi, @fukua95, @lzakharov, @DengY11

📝 Changelog

For a complete list of changes, see the full changelog.

9.8.0 (2025-04-30)

🚀 Highlights

• Redis 8 Support: Full compatibility with Redis 8.0, including testing and CI integration
• Enhanced Hash Operations: Added support for new hash commands (HGETDEL, HGETEX, HSETEX) and HSTRLEN command
• Search Improvements: Enabled Search DIALECT 2 by default and added CountOnly argument for FT.Search

✨ New Features

• Added support for new hash commands: HGETDEL, HGETEX, HSETEX (#3305)
• Added HSTRLEN command for hash operations (#2843)
• Added Do method for raw query by single connection from pool.Conn() (#3182)
• Prevent false-positive marshaling by treating zero time.Time as empty in isEmptyValue (#3273)
• Added FailoverClusterClient support for Universal client (#2794)
• Added support for cluster mode with IsClusterMode config parameter (#3255)
• Added client name support in HELLO RESP handshake (#3294)
• Enabled Search DIALECT 2 by default (#3213)
• Added read-only option for failover configurations (#3281)
• Added CountOnly argument for FT.Search to use LIMIT 0 0 (#3338)
• Added DB option support in NewFailoverClusterClient (#3342)
• Added nil check for the options when creating a client (#3363)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed PubSub concurrency safety issues (#3360)
• Fixed panic caused when argument is nil (#3353)
• Improved error handling when fetching master node from sentinels (#3349)
• Fixed connection pool timeout issues and increased retries (#3298)
• Fixed context cancellation error leading to connection spikes on Primary instances (#3190)
• Fixed RedisCluster client to consider MASTERDOWN a retriable error (#3164)
• Fixed tracing to show complete commands instead of truncated versions (#3290)
• Fixed OpenTelemetry instrumentation to prevent multiple span reporting (#3168)
• Fixed FT.Search Limit argument and added CountOnly argument for limit 0 0 (#3338)
• Fixed missing command in interface (#3344)
• Fixed slot calculation for COUNTKEYSINSLOT command (#3327)
• Updated PubSub implementation with correct context (#3329)

📚 Documentation

• Added hash search examples (#3357)
• Fixed documentation comments (#3351)
• Added CountOnly search example (#3345)
• Added examples for list commands: LLEN, LPOP, LPUSH, LRANGE, RPOP, RPUSH (#3234)
• Added SADD and SMEMBERS command examples (#3242)
• Updated README.md to use Redis Discord guild (#3331)
• Updated HExpire command documentation (#3355)
• Featured OpenTelemetry instrumentation more prominently (#3316)
• Updated README.md with additional information (#310ce55)

⚡ Performance and Reliability

• Bound connection pool background dials to configured dial timeout (#3089)
• Ensured context isn't exhausted via concurrent query (#3334)

🔧 Dependencies and Infrastructure

• Updated testing image to Redis 8.0-RC2 (#3361)
• Enabled CI for Redis CE 8.0 (#3274)
• Updated various dependencies:
  • Bumped golangci/golangci-lint-action from 6.5.0 to 7.0.0 (#3354)
  • Bumped rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions (#3336)
  • Bumped golang.org/x/net in example/otel (#3308)
• Migrated golangci-lint configuration to v2 format (#3354)

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Enabled Search DIALECT 2 by default (#3213)
• Dropped RedisGears (Triggers and Functions) support (#3321)
• Dropped FT.PROFILE command that was never enabled (#3323)

🔒 Security

• Fixed network error handling on SETINFO (CVE-2025-29923) (#3295)

🧪 Testing

• Added integration tests for Redis 8 behavior changes in Redis Search (#3337)
• Added vector types INT8 and UINT8 tests (#3299)
• Added test codes for search_commands.go (#3285)
• Fixed example test sorting (#3292)

👥 Contributors

We would like to thank all the contributors who made this release possible:

@alexander-menshchikov, @EXPEbdodla, @afti, @dmaier-redislabs, @four_leaf_clover, @alohaglenn, @gh73962, @justinmir, @LINKIWI, @liushuangbill, @golang88, @gnpaone, @ndyakov, @nikolaydubina, @oleglacto, @andy-stark-redis, @rodneyosodo, @dependabot, @rfyiamcool, @frankxjkuang, @fukua95, @soleymani-milad, @ofekshenawa, @khasanovbi