๐ Highlights
FIPS-Compatible Script Helper
Script now supports a FIPS-safe execution mode that avoids client-side SHA-1 computation, which is blocked in strict FIPS environments. A new NewScriptServerSHA constructor uses SCRIPT LOAD to obtain and cache the digest from the server, then runs commands via EVALSHA/EVALSHA_RO. Falls back to EVAL/EVALRO if loading fails, and transparently retries once on NOSCRIPT. The default behavior is unchanged for existing users.
(#3700) by @chaitanyabodlapati
FT.AGGREGATE Step-Based Pipeline Builder
Added a new step-based FT.AGGREGATE pipeline API via FTAggregateOptions.Steps, allowing LOAD, APPLY, GROUPBY, and SORTBY (with per-step MAX) to be repeated and interleaved in arbitrary order โ matching Redis's native multi-stage aggregation semantics. The legacy Load/Apply/GroupBy/SortBy/SortByMax fields are now deprecated.
Raw RESP Protocol Access
Added DoRaw and DoRawWriteTo methods for executing arbitrary commands and reading the raw RESP response. Useful for proxying, custom protocol inspection, and working with commands not yet wrapped by go-redis.
(#3713) by @ofekshenawa
Configurable Dial Retry Backoff
Added DialerRetryBackoff option (plumbed through Options, ClusterOptions, RingOptions, FailoverOptions) to let callers customize the delay between failed dial attempts. Helpers DialRetryBackoffConstant and DialRetryBackoffExponential (with jitter and cap) are provided out of the box. Dial timeout is now also applied per attempt rather than across all retries.
โจ New Features
- FT.AGGREGATE Steps: Step-based pipeline builder for
FT.AGGREGATEwith support for repeated/interleavedLOAD,APPLY,GROUPBY, andSORTBYstages (#3782) by @ndyakov - VectorSet commands: Added
VISMEMBERandWITHATTRIBSsupport (#3753) by @romanpovol - FIPS-safe Script:
NewScriptServerSHAusesSCRIPT LOADto obtain the digest from the server, avoiding client-side SHA-1 (#3700) by @chaitanyabodlapati - Raw RESP access:
DoRawandDoRawWriteTofor raw RESP protocol access (#3713) by @ofekshenawa - Dial retry backoff:
DialerRetryBackofffunction option with constant and exponential helpers (#3706) by @mwhooker - Typed NOSCRIPT error: Redis
NOSCRIPTreplies are now surfaced as a typed error for easier handling (#3738) by @LINKIWI - PubSub ClientSetName: Added
ClientSetNamemethod toPubSub(#3727) by @Flack74 - ReplicaOf: New
ReplicaOfmethod replaces the deprecatedSlaveOf(#3720) by @Copilot - HSCAN BinaryUnmarshaler:
HScannow supports types implementingencoding.BinaryUnmarshaler(#3768) by @Aaditya-dubey1
๐ Bug Fixes
- Auto hostname type detection: Improved endpoint type detection for maintenance notifications using DNS-based classification; handles empty hosts and expanded private-IP ranges (#3789) by @ndyakov
- HELLO fallback: Don't send
CLIENT MAINT_NOTIFICATIONShandshake whenHELLOfails and connection falls back to RESP2; fail fast when explicitly enabled with RESP3 (#3788) by @ndyakov - Dial TCP retry:
ShouldRetrynow treatsnet.OpErrorwithOp == "dial"timeout errors as safe to retry since no command was sent (#3787) by @vladisa88 - wrappedOnClose leak: Fixed resource leak caused by repeatedly wrapping
baseClientclose logic; replaced with a bounded, concurrency-safe named-hook registry (#3785) by @ndyakov - Pool Close() on stale connections: Suppress close errors (e.g., TLS
closeNotifytimeouts) for connections already dropped by the server due to idle timeout (#3778) by @ofekshenawa - FIFO waiter ordering: Fixed race in
ConnStateMachine.notifyWaitersthat could wake multiple waiters under a single mutex hold and violate FIFO ordering (#3777) by @0x48core - Lua READONLY detection: Detect
READONLYerrors embedded in Lua script error messages on read-only replicas so commands are correctly retried (#3769) by @zhengjilei - VectorScoreSliceCmd RESP2: Fixed
VSimWithScores,VSimWithArgsWithScores, andVLinksWithScoreswhich were broken on RESP2 connections returning flat arrays instead of maps (#3767) by @Copilot - Closed connection handling: Two fixes for closed connection handling in the pool (#3764) by @cxljs
- ZRangeArgs Rev: Fixed
ZRangeArgswithRev+ByScore/ByLexincorrectly swappingStart/Stop, breakingZRANGESTORE(#3751) by @Copilot - OTel metric instrument types: Fixed metric instrument types in
redisotel-native(#3743) by @ofekshenawa - Options.clone() data race: Fixed data race when cloning
Options(#3739) by @rubensayshi - Connection closure metrics: Fixed connection closure metrics and enabled all metric groups by default in
redisotel-native(#3735) by @ofekshenawa - OTel semconv v1.38.0: Use metric definition from
otel/semconv/v1.38.0inredisotel-native(#3731) by @wzy9607 - SETNX semantics: Use
SET ... NXinstead of the deprecatedSETNXcommand (#3723) by @ndyakov - TIME keyless routing: Mark
TIMEas a keyless command for correct cluster routing (#3722) by @fatal10110 - Dial timeout per retry: Dial timeout now applies per attempt instead of across all retry attempts combined (#3705) by @mwhooker
- Cluster metrics attributes: Fixed
pool.namebeing appended per node, which corrupted and dropped user-provided custom attributes (#3699) by @Jesse-Bonfire - initConn nil dereference: Fixed nil pointer dereference and potential deadlock in
*baseClient.initConn(); added explicit nil option guards to client constructors (#3676) by @olde-ducke
โก Performance
- RESP reader: Optimized RESP reader by eliminating intermediate string allocations (#3774) by @Aaditya-dubey1
- Inline rendezvous hashing: Replaced
github.com/dgryski/go-rendezvousdependency with an in-repo implementation ininternal/hashtag, reducing the dependency graph while preserving algorithm parity (#3762) by @bigsk05
๐งช Testing & Infrastructure
- Release automation: Added
repository,ref, andclient-libs-test-image-taginputs to therun-testscomposite action;redis-versionis now optional so unstable builds useREDIS_VERSIONfrom the Makefile (#3749) by @dariaguy - Go 1.24: Updated minimum Go version to 1.24 and use
-compat=1.24in release scripts (#3714, #3754) by @ndyakov, @cxljs
๐งฐ Maintenance
- Pool state machine: Removed redundant
Conn.closedatomic field in favor of the state machine'sStateClosed(#3783) by @cxljs - OTel SDK: Updated OpenTelemetry SDK dependencies in
redisotel/redisotel-native(#3770) by @ndyakov - Go 1.21+ built-ins: Use
maps.Keys,slices.Collect,slices.Contains,clear(), andslices.SortFuncinstead of custom helpers (#3758, #3746) by @cxljs - HGetAll docs: Added Go doc comment to
HGetAlldescribing behavior and complexity (#3776) by @0x48core - Docs links: Fixed irrelevant docs links (#3724) by @olzhas-sabiyev
- Examples cleanup: Removed throughput binary from examples (#3733) by @ndyakov
๐ฅ Contributors
We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!
@0x48core, @Aaditya-dubey1, @Copilot, @Flack74, @Jesse-Bonfire, @LINKIWI, @bigsk05, @chaitanyabodlapati, @cxljs, @dariaguy, @fatal10110, @mwhooker, @ndyakov, @ofekshenawa, @olde-ducke, @olzhas-sabiyev, @romanpovol, @rubensayshi, @vladisa88, @wzy9607, @zhengjilei
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