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Announcement8.8.0

Redis 8.8.0 General Availability

Redis 8.8.0 introduces a new Array data structure, subkey notifications for hash fields, the INCREX rate limiter command, XNACK for stream message release, and enhancements to sorted set operations, JSON, and time-series commands. This GA release also includes performance improvements and bug fixes.

This is the General Availability release of Redis 8.8 in Redis Open Source.

Major changes compared to 8.6

  • New data structure: Array (@antirez)
  • Subkey notification for hash fields - field-level notifications
  • INCREX: a window counter rate limiter combining INCR, INCRBY, INCRBYFLOAT, bounds, and expiration (@raffertyyu + Redis team)
  • XNACK: a new streams command - allow consumers to explicitly release pending messages
  • ZUNION, ZINTER, ZUNIONSTORE, ZINTERSTORE: new COUNT aggregator
  • JSON.SET: new FPHA argument to specify the FP type for homogeneous FP arrays
  • TS.RANGE, TS.REVRANGE, TS.MRANGE, TS.MREVRANGE: multiple aggregators in a single command
  • FT.HYBRID KNN clause: new argument to request fewer candidates per shard
  • FT.PROFILE HYBRID: profiling support for FT.HYBRID
  • Performance improvements

Binary distributions

Operating systems we test Redis 8.8 on

  • Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish), 24.04 (Noble Numbat), 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon)
  • Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.7, 10.1
  • AlmaLinux 8.10, 9.7, 10.1
  • Debian 12.13 (Bookworm), Debian 13.4 (Trixie)
  • Alpine 3.23
  • macOS 14.8.4 (Sonoma), 15.7.4 (Sequoia), 26.3 (Tahoe) - for both Intel and ARM

Bug fixes (compared to 8.8-RC1)

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