This release introduces support for dozens of new commands, including hash field expiration, Valkey’s DELIFEQ, and Redis vector set operations. It also delivers numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Sponsors 💖

• A-VISION
• Avtandil Kikabidze
• Geoffrey Hoffman
• Object Cache Pro for WordPress
• Open LMS
• Relay
• Salvatore Sanfilippo
• Ty Karok

Fixed

• Fix possible hash field name truncation834d2b37 (michael-grunder)
• Fix a possible segfault during failover5ebb853e (rlerdorf)
• Bump version and fix XGROUP testf5db01b7,4517d5f9 (remicollet)
• Fix an overflow bug in ZADD on Windows35df8ad7 (michael-grunder)
• Fix errors and a warningb8de91c9 (michael-grunder)
• FixRedisCluster segfaultf61e8cd7 (michael-grunder)
• Fix passing NULL for hash expiry argumentca80ee0e (michael-grunder)
• Fix an off-by-one length calculation error340f23b0 (michael-grunder)
• Fix hset fields handling6b2f088d (yatsukhnenko)
• Fix HSetEx expiry argument handling7805da75 (yatsukhnenko)
• Fix the echo liveness check when in sentinel mode2acab399 (michael-grunder)
• Fix double -> int truncation warning152fdda9 (michael-grunder)
• FixSIGABRT in PHP 8.4 with RedisArray3c64b33f (Novynn)
• Fixing segfault in cluster_update_slotb0ba827b (JacobBrownAustin)
• Fix typod0b0c5cf (michael-grunder)
• Fix compiling with PHP 8.5.0 alpha3 and newer1e6f5477 (wyattoday)
• Fix error length calculation + UB sanity checke73130fe (michael-grunder)
• Fix arguments order forSET commandf73f5fcc (yatsukhnenko)

Added

• Addhgetwithmeta method7d3b2e4d (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• AddmaxRetries toredis_sock_configuree9e9e495 (michael-grunder)
• Implement vectorset commands92dd256f,d80b7258,7f9b1f41,92716ed0,dc91631b,1deca628,96378b70,0fda9f29,0ed0fc05,d1d69005,286fa630,38115dec,c4b2ea6c,6ce3bd53 (michael-grunder)
• ImplementGEOSEARCH[STORE]BYPOLYGON8d369f4d,f24814a4 (michael-grunder)
• Implement Valkey'sDELIFEQ commandb1b0c191 (michael-grunder)
• Add an INI setting returning 5.x legacy behavior -- readonly session on lock failure8dada174 (arokettu)
• Implement several hash expiration commands7350768c (michael-grunder)
• IntroduceRedis::serverName andRedis::serverVersion methods056c2dbecbaf095f
  fa3eb006 (yatsukhnenko) (michael-grunder)
• New option 'database' for Redis class constructor4f6a3ed1 (JakubOnderka)
• ImplementHGETEX,HSETEX,HGETDEL, and refactorHMGETce5b0fac (michael-grunder)
• ImplementGETDEL forRedisClusterd342e4ac (michael-grunder)

Changed

• Check fordragonfly_version inHELLO response593ba012 (michael-grunder)
• Simplify redis_unpack method calling0a85bd82 (JakubOnderka)
• RefactorgetWithMeta logic0445e683 (michael-grunder)
• cleanup session temp file3828c929 (remicollet)
• Make execHello protected300c5fb2 (michael-grunder)

Documentation

• Update Relay sponsorship7a69d73 (tillkruss)
• Fix markdown headlines1d662f56 (tillkruss)
• document PECL configure options2066cfad (tillkruss)
• Improve wording in README about project support0ac01476 (tillkruss)
• Improve install instructionsc0076036 (remicollet)
• Clean up README.md: fix typos, spelling, and grammar errors09cd4c54 (Copilot)
• Refine parameter descriptions and examples in READMEf9f609e1 ([joshtrichards](https://github....

Sponsors 💖

• A-VISION

• Avtandil Kikabidze

• Geoffrey Hoffman

• Object Cache Pro for WordPress

• Open LMS

• Salvatore Sanfilippo

• Ty Karok

• Vanessa Santana

  Special thanks toJakub Onderka for nearly two dozen performance improvements in this release!

Fixed

• Fix arguments order forSET commandf73f5fc (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix error length calculation and UB sanity checke73130fe (michael-grunder)
• Invalidate slot cache on failed cluster connectionsc7b87843 (James Kennedy)
• Don't cast a uint64_t to a longfaa4bc20 (michael-grunder)
• Fix potential NULL dereference43e6cab8 (peter15914)
• Print cursor as unsigned 64 bit integer138d07b6 (Bentley O'Kane-Chase)
• Fix XAUTOCLAIM argc when sending COUNT0fe45d24 (michael-grunder)

Added

• AddedserverName() andserverVersion() introspection methods056c2dbecbaf095ffa3eb006 (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) (michael-grunder)
• AddedgetWithMeta method9036ffca (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• ImplementGETDEL command for RedisClusterd342e4ac (michael-grunder)
• IntroduceRedis::OPT_PACK_IGNORE_NUMBERS optionf9ce942929e5cf0d (michael-grunder)
• Implement Valkey >= 8.1IFEQSET optiona2eef77f (michael-grunder)
• Implement KeyDB's EXPIREMEMBER[AT] commands4cd3f593 (michael-grunder)
• Set priority to 60 (for PIE installations)9e504ede (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)

Documentation

• Fix phpdoc type of$pattern5cad2076 (OHZEKI Naoki)
• Better documentation for the$tlsOptions parameter of RedisCluster8144db37 (Jacob Brown)

Tests/CI

• Reorganize tests807f806f (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Add details to the option doc blockabb0f6cc (michael-grunder)
• Update CodeQL to v341e11417a10bca35 (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Add PHP 8.4 to CI6097e7ba (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Pin ubuntu version for KeyDBeb66fc9e985b0313 (michael-grunder)
• Windows CI: update setup-php-sdk to v0.10 and enable cachingf89d4d8f (Christoph M. Becker)

Internal/Performance

• Reduce buffer size for signed integer044b303835c59880 (Bentley O'Kane-Chase)
• Create a strncmp wrapper085d61ec (michael-grunder)
• Refactor and avoid allocation in rawcommand methodf68544f7 (JakubOnderka)
• Switch from linked list to growing array for reply callbacksa551fdc942a42769 (JakubOnderka) (michael-grunder)
• Reuse redis_sock_append_auth methodbe388562 (JakubOnderka)
• Switch pipeline_cmd from smart_str to smart_string571ffbc8 (JakubOnderka)
• Remove unused redis_debug_response method from library.c7895636a (JakubOnderka)
• Optimise HMGET method2434ba29 (JakubOnderka)
• Avoid unnecessary allocation in redis_hset_cmdaba09933 (JakubOnderka)
• Avoid unnecessary allocation in redis_hdel_cmd4082dd07 (JakubOnderka)
• Avoid unnecessary allocation in redis_key_varval_cmd99650e15 (JakubOnderka)
• Use zval_get_tmp_string method that is faster when provided zval is stringf6906470 (JakubOnderka)
• Optimise constructing Redis command string2a2f908f (JakubOnderka)
• If no command is issued in multi mode, return immutable empty array5156e032 (JakubOnderka)
• Test for empty pipeline and multi426de2bb (JakubOnderka)
• Optimise method array_zip_values_and_scores400503b8 (JakubOnderka)
• Faster parameter parsing in redis_key_cmd and redis_key_long_val_cmd83a19656 (JakubOnderka)
• Use immutable empty array in Redis::hKeys3a2f3f45 (JakubOnderka)
• Use immutable empty array in Redis::exec60b5a886 (JakubOnderka)
• Do not allocate empty string or string with one character64da891e (JakubOnderka)
• Initialize arrays with known size99beb922 (JakubOnderka)
• Use smart str for constructing pipeline cmdb665925e ([JakubOnderka](https://github.com/Ja...

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--- 6.1.0 ---

NOTE: There were no changes to C code between 6.1.0RC2 and 6.1.0

Documentation:

• Update package.xml to make it clearer that we support many key-value stores
  [52e69ed] (Remi Collet)
• Fix redis.io urls [0bae4bb] (Vincent Langlet)

Tests/CI:

• Fix 2 tests with redis 6.2 [cc1be32] (Remi Collet)

--- 6.1.0RC2 ---

Fixed:

• Fixed aSIGABRT error in PHP 8.4 [a75a7e5] (Michael Grunder)
• Clean up code for unsupported versions of PHP [37cebdd] (Remi Collet)
• AddSessionHelpers.php topackage.xml[e9474b8] (Remi Collet)
• 8.4 implicit null fix, bump version [bff3a22,30c8f90] [Remi Collet]

Changed:

• Raised minimum supported PHP version to 7.4 [8b51942] (Michael Grunder)

Removed:

• Removed erroneously duplicated changelog entries [40c8973] (Michael Grunder)

Tests/CI:

• Move to upload artifacts v4 [9d38050] (Michael Grunder)

Added:

• Addedcomposer.json to support PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) [b59e35a]
  (James Titcumb)

--- 6.1.0RC1 ---

Fixed:

• Fix random connection timeouts with Redis Cluster. [eb7f31e] (Jozsef Koszo)
• Fix argument count issue in HSET with associative array [6ea5b3e]
  (Viktor Djupsjobacka)
• SRANDMEMBER can return any type because of serialization. [6673b5b]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Fix HRANDFIELD command when WITHVALUES is used. [99f9fd8] (Michael Grunder)
• Allow context array to be nullable [50529f5] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix a macOS (M1) compiler warning. [7de29d5] (Michael Grunder)
• GETEX documentation/updates and implentation inRedisCluster [981c693]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Refactor redis_script_cmd and fix toflush subcommand. [7c55142]
  (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Update liveness check and fix PHP 8.4 compilation error. [c139de3]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Rework how we declare ZSTD min/max constants. [34b5bd8] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix memory leak if we fail in ps_open_redis. [0e92616] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix segfault and remove redundant macros [a9e53fd] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix PHP 8.4 includes [a51215c] (Michael Grunder)
• Handle arbitrarily largeSCAN cursors properly. [2612d44,e52f0af]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Improve warning when we encounter an invalid EXPIRY in SET [732e466]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Fix Arginfo / zpp mismatch for DUMP command [50e5405] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• RedisCluster::publish returns a cluster_long_resp [14f9333] (Alexandre Choura)
• Fix segfault when passing just false to auth. [6dc0a0b] (Michael Grunder)
• the VALUE argument type for hSetNx must be the same as for hSet [df074db]
  (Uladzimir Tsykun)
• Other fixes [e18f6c6,3d7be35,2b555c8,fa1a283,37c5f8d] (Michael Grunder, Viktor Szepe)

Added:

• Compression support for PHP sessions. [da4ab0a] (bitactive)
• Support for early_refresh in Redis sessions to match cluster behavior
  [b698901] (Bitactive)
• Implement WAITAOF command. [ed7c9f6] (Michael Grunder)

Removed:

• PHP 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 CI jobs [d68c30f,dc39bd5] (Michael Grunder)

Changed:

• Fix the time unit of retry_interval [3fdd52b] (woodong)

Documentation:

• Many documentation fixes. [eeb5109] (Michael Dwyer)
• fix missing code tags [f865d5b] (divinity76)
• Mention Valkey support [5f1eecf] (PlavorSeol)
• Mention KeyDB support in README.md [37fa359] (Tim Starling)
• Remove mention of pickle [c7a73ab] (David Baker)
• Add session.save_path examples [8a39cae] (Martin Vancl)
• Tighter return types for Redis::(keys|hKeys|hVals|hGetAll) [77ab62b]
  (Benjamin Morel)
• Update stubs [4d23397,ff30534,12966a7,a4a283a,8f8ff72]
  (Michael Grunder, Takayasu Oyama, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix config.m4 when using custom dep paths [ece3f7b] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix retry_internal documentation [142c1f4] (SplotyCode)
• Fix anchor link [9b5cad3] (Git'Fellow)
• Fix typo in link [bfd379f] (deiga)
• Fix Fedora package url [60b1ba1,717713e] (Dmitrii Kotov)
• Update Redis Sentinel documentation to reflect changes to constructor in 6.0
  release [dc05d65] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)

Tests/CI:

• Avoid fatal error in test execution. [5730497] (Michael Grunder)
• Refactor unit test framework. [b1771de] (Michael Grunder)
• Get unit tests working inphp-cgi. [b808cc6] (Michael Grunder)
• Switch toZEND_STRL in more places. [7050c98,f8c762e] (Michael Grunder)
• Workaround weird PHP compiler crash. [d3b2d87] (Michael Grunder)
• Refactor tests (formatting, modernization, etc). [dab6a62,c6cd665,78b70ca,
  3c125b0,18b0da7,b88e72b,0f94d9c,5996597,3dbc2bd,9b90c03,c0d6f04]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Spelling fixes [0d89e92] (Michael Grunder)
• Added Valkey support. [f350dc3] (Michael Grunder)
• Add a test for session compression. [9f3ca98] (Michael Grunder)
• Test against valkey [a819a44] (Michael Grunder)
• sessionSaveHandler injection. [9f8f80c] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• KeyDB addiions [54d62c7,d9c48b7] (Michael Grunder)
• Add PHP 8.3 to CI [78d1514,e051a5d] (Robert Kelcak, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Use newInstance in RedisClusterTest [954fbab] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Use actions/checkout@v4 [f4c2ac2] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Cluster nodes from ENV [eda3995,0672703] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Ensure we're talking to redis-server in our high ports test. [7825efb]
  (Michael Grunder)
• Add missing option to installation example [2bddd84] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix typo in link [8f6bc98] (Timo Sand)
• Update tests to allow users to use a custom class. [5f6ce41] (Michael Grunder)

PhpRedis 6.1.0RC1

See CHANGELOG.md or package.xml for full release notes.

• Fix deprecation error when passing null to match_type parameter. [b835aaa] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix flaky test and OBJECT in a pipeline. [a7f51f7] (Michael Grunder)
• Find our callback by pattern with PSUBSCRIBE [2f276dc] (Michael Grunder)

Full Changelog:6.0.1...6.0.2

phpredis 5.3.7

• Fix RedisArray::[hsz]scan and tests [08a9d5d,0264de1] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder)
• Fix RedisArray::scan [8689ab1] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix LZF decompression logic [0719c1e] (Michael Grunder)

Full Changelog:5.3.6...5.3.7