Instaclustr is pleased to announce the general availability of Redis™ version 7.0.4 on the Instaclustr platform.

Redis 7.0.4, released around the middle of July 2022, is the latest version of Redis and the first Redis 7 release we have offered. Compared to the last Redis 6 release, Redis 7 contains numerous bug fixes, some potentially breaking changes, a few performance enhancements, and additions to the API. For information on these and details of other changes, please refer to the release notes of 7.0.x available on Github.

Security conscious customers will note that CVE-2022-24735, which was given a CVSS v3 severity of high in the National Vulnerability Database, is one of the security vulnerabilities fixed in this release, along with CVE-2022-24736 and CVE-2022-31144. You can read more about how Instaclustr for Redis was impacted by CVE-2022-24735 in our blog. 

For new customers, we recommend using the newly released version. For existing customers who are currently running an older version and wish to upgrade to version 7.0.4, we advise opening a support ticket to get assistance from our TechOps team.