Version 4.0.0

Changes Since 3.5.3

4.0.0-rc2 release notes
4.0.0-rc1 release notes
4.0.0-beta3 release notes
4.0.0-beta2 release notes
4.0.0-beta1 ​release notes

🚀 New Features

• FT.EXPLAINCLI intentionally raising NotImplementedError (#1705)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Restoring ZRANGE desc for Redis < 6.2.0 (#1697)
• Response parsing occasionally fails to parse floats (#1692)
• Re-enabling read-the-docs (#1707)

🧰 Maintenance

• Call HSET after FT.CREATE to avoid keyspace scan (#1706)
• Unit tests fixes for compatibility (#1703)
• Improve documentation about Locks (#1701)
• Fixes to allow --redis-url to pass through all tests (#1700)
• Fix unit tests running against Redis 4.0.0 (#1699)
• Search alias test fix (#1695)
• Adding RediSearch/RedisJSON tests (#1691)
• Updating codecov rules (#1689)
• Tests to validate custom JSON decoders (#1681)
• Added breaking icon to release drafter (#1702)

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

@AvitalFineRedis, @ashtul, @chayim and @jerr0328

4.0.0-rc2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Removing dependency on six (#1676)
• Re-enable pipeline support for JSON and TimeSeries (#1674)
• Export Sentinel, and SSL like other classes (#1671)
• Restore zrange functionality for older versions of Redis (#1670)
• Fixed garbage collection deadlock (#1578)

🧰 Maintenance

• Tests to validate built python packages (#1678)
• Sleep for flaky search test (#1680)
• Test function renames, to match standards (#1679)
• Docstring improvements for Redis class (#1675)
• Fix georadius tests (#1672)

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

@AvitalFineRedis, @chayim, @emorozov and @terencehonles

4.0.0-rc1

Breaking Changes

• Improvements to JSON coverage (#1666)
  Impact: JSON commands available since 4.0.0beta3 now better match RedisJSON
• Add python_requires setuptools check for python > 3.6 (#1656)

🚀 New Features

• SMISMEMBER support (#1667)
• Exposing the module version in loaded_modules (#1648)
• RedisTimeSeries support (#1652)
• Support for json multipath ($) (#1663)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Added boolean parsing to PEXPIRE and PEXPIREAT (#1665)
• Add python_requires setuptools check for python > 3.6 (#1656)

🧰 Maintenance

• Adding vulture for static analysis (#1655)
• Starting to clean the docs (#1657)
• Update README.md (#1654)
• Adding description format for package (#1651)
• Publish to pypi as releases are generated with the release drafter (#1647)
• Restore actions to prs (#1653)

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

@Nicusor97, @WisdomPill, @chayim and @gkorland

4.0.0-beta3

Changes

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixing the package to include commands (#1649)

🧰 Maintenance

• Re-enabling codecov as part of CI process (#1646)

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

@chayim

4.0.0-beta2

Changes

🚀 New Features

• Adding support for redisearch (#1640) Thanks @chayim
• redisjson support (#1636) Thanks @chayim
• Sentinel: Add SentinelManagedSSLConnection (#1419) Thanks @AbdealiJK
• Enable floating parameters in SET (ex and px) (#1635) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
• Add warning when hiredis not installed. Recommend installation. (#1621) Thanks @adiamzn
• Raising NotImplementedError for SCRIPT DEBUG and DEBUG SEGFAULT (#1624) Thanks @chayim
• CLIENT REDIR command support (#1623) Thanks @chayim
• REPLICAOF command implementation (#1622) Thanks @chayim
• Add support to NX XX and CH to GEOADD (#1605) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
• Add support to ZRANGE and ZRANGESTORE parameters (#1603) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Pre 6.2 redis should default to None for script flush (#1641) Thanks @chayim
• Add FULL option to XINFO SUMMARY (#1638) Thanks @agusdmb
• Geosearch test should use any=True (#1594) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
• Removing packaging dependency (#1626) Thanks @chayim
• Fix client_kill_filter docs for skimpy (#1596) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
• Normalize minid and maxlen docs (#1593) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
• Update docs for multiple usernames for ACL DELUSER (#1595) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
• Fix grammar of get param in set command (#1588) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
• Fix docs for client_kill_filter (#1584) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang

🧰 Maintenance

• Convert README & CONTRIBUTING from rst to md (#1633) Thanks @davidylee
• Test BYLEX param in zrangestore (#1634) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
• Tox integrations with invoke and docker (#1632) Thanks @chayim
• Adding the release drafter to help simplify release notes (#1618). Thanks @chayim

4.0.0-beta1

Backwards Incompatible Changes

• Removed support for end of life Python 2.7. #1318
• All values within Redis URLs are unquoted via
  urllib.parse.unquote. Prior versions of redis-py supported this by
  specifying the decode_components flag to the from_url functions.
  This is now done by default and cannot be disabled. #589
• Redis commands were moved into a mixin
  (see commands.py). Anyone importing redis.client to access commands
  directly should import redis.commands. #1534, #1550

CHANGES

• Removed technical debt on REDIS_6_VERSION placeholder. Thanks @chayim #1582.
• Various docus fixes. Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang #1585, #1586.
• Support for LOLWUT command, available since Redis 5.0.0.
  Thanks @brainix #1568.
• Added support for CLIENT REPLY, available in Redis 3.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim #1581.
• Support for Auto-reconnect PubSub on get_message. Thanks @luhn #1574.
• Fix RST syntax error in README/ Thanks @JanCBrammer #1451.
• IDLETIME and FREQ support for RESTORE. Thanks @chayim #1580.
• Supporting args with MODULE LOAD. Thanks @chayim #1579.
• Updating RedisLabs with Redis. Thanks @gkorland #1575.
• Added support for ASYNC to SCRIPT FLUSH available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1567
• Added CLIENT LIST fix to support multiple client ids available in
  Redis 2.8.12. Thanks @chayim #1563.
• Added DISCARD support for pipelines available in Redis 2.0.0.
  Thanks @chayim #1565.
• Added ACL DELUSER support for deleting lists of users available in
  Redis 6.2.0. Thanks @chayim. #1562
• Added CLIENT TRACKINFO support available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1560
• Added GEOSEARCH and GEOSEARCHSTORE support available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFine Redis. #1526
• Added LPUSHX support for lists available in Redis 4.0.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1559
• Added support for QUIT available in Redis 1.0.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1558
• Added support for COMMAND COUNT available in Redis 2.8.13.
  Thanks @chayim. #1554.
• Added CREATECONSUMER support for XGROUP available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1553
• Including slowly complexity in INFO if available.
  Thanks @ian28223 #1489.
• Added support for STRALGO available in Redis 6.0.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1528
• Addes support for ZMSCORE available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @2014BDuck and @jiekun.zhu. #1437
• Support MINID and LIMIT on XADD available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1548
• Added sentinel commands FLUSHCONFIG, CKQUORUM, FAILOVER, and RESET
  available in Redis 2.8.12.
  Thanks @otherpirate. #834
• Migrated Version instead of StrictVersion for Python 3.10.
  Thanks @tirkarthi. #1552
• Added retry mechanism with backoff. Thanks @nbraun-amazon. #1494
• Migrated commands to a mixin. Thanks @chayim. #1534
• Added support for ZUNION, available in Redis 6.2.0. Thanks
  @AvitalFineRedis. #1522
• Added support for CLIENT LIST with ID, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1505
• Added support for MINID and LIMIT with xtrim, available in Reds 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1508
• Implemented LMOVE and BLMOVE commands, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1504
• Added GET argument to SET command, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @2014BDuck. #1412
• Documentation fixes. Thanks @enjoy-binbin @Jonher937. #1496 #1532
• Added support for XAUTOCLAIM, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1529
• Added IDLE support for XPENDING, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1523
• Add a count parameter to lpop/rpop, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @wavenator. #1487
• Added a (pypy) trove classifier for Python 3.9.
  Thanks @D3X. #1535
• Added ZINTER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1520
• Added ZINTER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1520
• Added ZDIFF and ZDIFFSTORE support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1518
• Added ZRANGESTORE support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1521
• Added LT and GT support for ZADD, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1509
• Added ZRANDMEMBER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1519
• Added GETDEL support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1514
• Added CLIENT KILL laddr filter, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1506
• Added CLIENT UNPAUSE, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1512
• Added NOMKSTREAM support for XADD, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @chayim. #1507
• Added HRANDFIELD support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1513
• Added CLIENT INFO support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1517
• Added GETEX support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1515
• Added support for COPY command, available in Redis 6.2.0.
  Thanks @malinaa96. #1492
• Provide a development and testing environment via docker. Thanks
  @abrookins. #1365
• Added support for the LPOS command available in Redis 6.0.6. Thanks
  @aparcar #1353/#1354
• Added support for the ACL LOG command available in Redis 6. Thanks
  @2014BDuck. #1307
• Added support for ABSTTL option of the RESTORE command available in
  Redis 5.0. Thanks @charettes. #1423