[RELEASE] Redis 7.0.6 and 6.2.8 are out!

[Itamar Haber]

Howdy everybody,

We've just released Redis 7.0.6 and Redis 6.2.8. Following are the release notes.

Redis 7.0.6

Upgrade urgency: MODERATE, Contains fixes for a few non-critical or unlikely bugs, and some dramatic optimizations to Geo, EVAL, and Sorted sets commands.

Potentially Breaking Bug Fixes for new Redis 7.0 features

• RM_ResetDataset module API should not clear the functions (#11268)
• RM_Call module API used with the "C" flag to run scripts, would now cause
  the commands in the script to check ACL with the designated user (#10966)

Performance and resource utilization improvements

• Geo commands speedups (#11535, #11522, #11552, #11579)
• Fix EVAL command performance regression from Redis 7.0 (#11521, #11541)
• Reduce EXPIRE commands performance regression from Redis 7.0 (#11602)
• Optimize commands returning double values, mainly affecting zset commands (#11093)
• Optimize Lua parsing of some command responses (#11556)
• Optimize client memory usage tracking operation while client eviction is disabled (#11348)

Platform / toolchain support related improvements

• Fix compilation on Solaris (#11327)

Module API changes

• RM_SetContextUser, RM_SetModuleUserACLString, RM_GetModuleUserACLString (#10966)
• Fix crash in CLIENT_CHANGE event, when the selected database is not 0 (#11500)

Changes in CLI tools

• redis-benchmark avoid aborting on NOPERM from CONFIG GET (#11096)

Bug Fixes

• Avoid hang of diskless replication fork child when parent crashes (#11463)
• Fix crash with module API of list iterator and RM_ListDelete (#11383)
• Fix TLS error handling to avoid connection drops on timeouts (#11563)
• Fix runtime changes to cluster-announce-*-port to take effect on the local node too (#10745)
• Fix sentinel function that compares hostnames if failed resolve (#11419)
• Fix MIGRATE with AUTH set to "keys" is getting wrong key names leading to MOVED or ACL errors (#11253)

Fixes for issues in previous releases of Redis 7.0

• Fix command line startup --sentinel problem (#11591)
• Fis missing FCALL commands in monitor (#11510)
• Fix CLUSTER SHARDS showing empty hostname (#11297)
• Replica that asks for rdb-only could have missed the EOF and hang (#11296)

Redis 6.2.8

Upgrade urgency: MODERATE, Contains fixes for a few non-critical or unlikely bugs

Performance and resource utilization improvements

• Optimize zset conversion on large ZRANGESTORE (#10789)

Module API changes

• Fix crash in CLIENT_CHANGE event, when the selected database is not 0 (#11500)
• Fix RM_SetAbsExpire and RM_GetAbsExpire API registration (#11025, #8564)

Security improvements

• Sentinel: avoid logging auth-pass value (#9652)

Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash when a Lua script returns a meta-table (#11032)
• Fix ZRANGESTORE crash when zset_max_listpack_entries is 0 (#10767)
• Unpause clients after manual failover ends instead of waiting for timed (#9676)
• TLS: Notify clients on connection shutdown (#10931)
• Avoid hang of diskless replication fork child when parent crashes (#11463)
• Fix sentinel function that compares hostnames if failed resolve (#11419)
• Fix a hang when eviction is combined with lazy-free and maxmemory-eviction-tenacity
  is set to 100 (#11237)
• Fix bug with scripts ignoring client tracking NOLOOP (#11052)
• Fix client-side tracking breaking protocol when FLUSHDB / FLUSHALL / SWAPDB is
  used inside MULTI-EXEC (#11038)
• Fix BITFIELD overflow detection on some compilers due to undefined behavior (#9601)

Cheers,

The Redis core team