Redis 7.0 Released: New Functions, ACLv2, Command Introspection & Sharded Pub/Sub

Redis 7.0 has been officially released after nearly a year of development and three release candidates. The team considers it stable enough for production use.

In short, Redis 7.0 includes incremental improvements across the board, with the most notable being Redis Functions, ACLv2, command introspection, and Sharded Pub/Sub, representing major evolutions based on user feedback and production experience.

The release adds nearly 50 new commands and options, extending support for bitmap, list, set, sorted set, and stream data types, as well as expanding cache semantics with existential and comparative modifiers.

While many user‑facing features are highlighted, the “unsung heroes” of this version are the efficiency, stability, and leaner implementation improvements that focus on resource‑relative performance.

Redis 7.0 improves almost every subsystem—memory, compute, networking, and storage. Some optimizations are enabled by default, others require configuration.

For detailed configuration, see the inline documentation in redis.conf (https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/7.0/redis.conf). Development of Redis 7.2 is already underway, and further details are available in the release notes (https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/7.0/00-RELEASENOTES).