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

• Alpine and Debian Docker images - https://hub.docker.com/_/redis
• Install using snap - see https://github.com/redis/redis-snap
• Install using brew - see https://github.com/redis/homebrew-redis
• Install using RPM - see https://github.com/redis/redis-rpm
• Install using Debian APT - see https://github.com/redis/redis-debian

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)

• redis/redis#15237 INCREX syntax update
• redis/redis#15005 Memory tracking can be enabled at runtime in non-clustered mode
• RedisTimeSeries/RedisTimeSerieshttps://github.com/redis/redis/pull/1930 Cluster topology changes during a multi-shard command are not handled (MOD-14439)
• RedisBloom/RedisBloomhttps://github.com/redis/redis/pull/1007 Memory leak on RDB load (MOD-15418)

Hashes

MSYS2 Builds Hashes

Algorithm : SHA256
Hash : 8AF6FD6C4AAC3E13DED36F249DA8114B3BE32DF60AB589DA7C3513AA8B1A86CD
Path : D:\a\redis-windows\redis-windows\Redis-8.8.0-Windows-x64-msys2.zip

Algorithm : SHA256
Hash : 41FF9E3FFAF9C9E764197F4498B1E4AC56AFCA65BAC4600E750DCCAC97A00673
Path : D:\a\redis-windows\redis-windows\Redis-8.8.0-Windows-x64-msys2-with-Service.zip

Cygwin Builds Hashes

Algorithm : SHA256
Hash : 939391F3E0749F7BC8C499CBE5861340A57C7180800890E1823CAD5747B7A471
Path : D:\a\redis-windows\redis-windows\Redis-8.8.0-Windows-x64-cygwin.zip

Algorithm : SHA256
Hash : AC209A5D391CAB6A20BA84C5EA9C425422A61198F94B12540038C5118AC226D1
Path : D:\a\redis-windows\redis-windows\Redis-8.8.0-Windows-x64-cygwin-with-Service.zip

From workflow: https://github.com/redis-windows/redis-windows/actions/runs/26426616394