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Valkey 8.1.0 release notes

Upgrade urgency levels

  • LOW: No need to upgrade unless there are new features you want to use.
  • MODERATE: Program an upgrade of the server, but it’s not urgent.
  • HIGH: There is a critical bug that may affect a subset of users. Upgrade!
  • CRITICAL: There is a critical bug affecting MOST USERS. Upgrade ASAP.
  • SECURITY: There are security fixes in the release.

Valkey 8.1.0 GA - Released Mon 31 March 2025

Upgrade urgency LOW.

This is the first release of Valkey 8.1, with a minor version update designed to further enhance performance, reliability, observability and usability over Valkey 8.0 for all Valkey installations.

This release is fully compatible with all previous Valkey releases as well as Redis OSS 7.2.4.

Behavior Changes

Hide input buffer data from being logged on protocol error when hide-user-data-from-log is enabled (#1889)

Bug fixes

Fix a bug in VM_GetCurrentUserName which leads to engine crash when no valid username provided (#1885)