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Upgrading redis 6 to 7

Breaking6.4.0 → 7.4.1Breaking12Security4Platform1Deprecated3New29Changed7Fixed36Other52

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BreakingUpgrade verdict

12 breaking changes and a platform requirement change and 4 security fixes.

In plain terms
  • Removes synchronous context manager handling from async RedisCluster.
  • Adds a score_cast_func argument to zrank, zrevrank and zunion for consistency with other sorted set commands.
  • Renames classes and configuration arguments related to maintenance push notification handling during server upgrade or maintenance.
  • The experimental health check and failure detection behavior changes, which may affect existing setups.
Must act Top 5 of 19 that need code or config changes

Python requirement changed in 7.1.0: >=3.9 → >=3.10.

What you must change

Breaking12
Removes synchronous context manager handling from async RedisCluster.
RedisCluster
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds a score_cast_func argument to zrank, zrevrank and zunion for consistency with other sorted set commands.
zrankzrevrankzunionscore_cast_func
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Renames classes and configuration arguments related to maintenance push notification handling during server upgrade or maintenance.
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Replaces the default health check and failure detector with a custom one in experimental features.
7.1.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds an abstract method declaration for the cache property setter in EvictionPolicyInterface.
EvictionPolicyInterface
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Removes the unused parse_list_to_dict function from helpers.
parse_list_to_dict
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Improves type annotations for Redis Search and Aggregate.
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Replaces threading.Lock locks with RLock objects to avoid deadlocks.
threading.LockRLock
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Updates ping command docstrings and method return type hint.
ping
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Fixes several *arg type hints in core.py and the json module commands.
core.py
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Fixes errors reported by mypy in search module files query.py, commands.py and aggregation.py.
query.pycommands.pyaggregation.py
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Changes the timeout type hint in async BlockingConnectionPool from int to float.
BlockingConnectionPool
7.0.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Security4
Addresses dependency vulnerabilities and fixes flaky tests.
7.4.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Fixes a security concern in ConnectionPools __repr__ methods where passwords might leak in plain text logs.
ConnectionPool__repr__
7.4.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Addresses dependency vulnerabilities and fixes flaky tests.
7.3.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Addresses dependency vulnerabilities and fixes flaky tests.
7.2.2GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Platform1
Removes Python 3.9 support and adds Python 3.14 support.
7.1.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source

Deprecations to plan for

Deprecated2
Removes the batch_size and consumer_name attributes from OTel metrics.
batch_sizeconsumer_name
7.2.1GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source
Adds special handling of client_tracking_on and client_tracking_off for cluster clients and deprecates them for cluster.
client_tracking_onclient_tracking_off
7.2.0GitHub ReleaseSummarizedView source