Valkey Community Announces Release Candidate Amid Growing Support for Open Source Data Store
SEATTLE, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation is excited to announce the Valkey 7.2.5-rc1 release candidate, amid growing support for Valkey as an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store. Announced in March as a response to a recent license change by Redis Inc, Valkey has experienced tremendous growth and support, including new partners, contributors, and community participants. Valkey will continue development based on Redis OSS 7.2.4 and will keep the project available for use and distribution under the open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) 3-clause license.
- SEATTLE, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation is excited to announce the Valkey 7.2.5-rc1 release candidate, amid growing support for Valkey as an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store.
- Since the Redis project was founded in 2009, thousands of open source developers have contributed significantly to its growth and success.
- To continue improving on this important technology and allow for unfettered distribution of the project, the community created Valkey, an open source high performance key-value store.
- The community has now unveiled Valkey 7.2.5-rc1, a release candidate for initial compatibility, which will allow existing Redis users to easily migrate to Valkey with no backwards incompatible API changes.