Changes

🚀 New Features

• Support for transactions in RedisCluster client (#3611)
• Add equality and hashability to Retry and backoff classes (#3628)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix RedisCluster ssl_check_hostname not set to connections. For SSL verification with ssl_cert_reqs="none", check_hostname is set to False (#3637) Important: The default value for the check_hostname field of RedisSSLContext has been changed as part of this PR - this is a breaking change and should not be introduced in minor versions - unfortunately, it is part of the current release. The breaking change is reverted in the next release to fix the behavior --> 6.2.0
• Prevent RuntimeError while reinitializing clusters - sync and async (#3633)
• Add equality and hashability to Retry and backoff classes (#3628) - fixes integration with Django RQ
• Fix AttributeError on ClusterPipeline (#3634)

🧰 Maintenance

• Updating the readme and lib version to contain the changes from the latest stable release (#3644)
• Export REDIS_MAJOR_VERSION correctly in run-tests (#3642)
• Fix matrix in hiredis-py-integration.yaml (#3641)
• Test against unstable hiredis-py (#3617)
• Adding return types for the RedisModuleCommands class (#3632)
• Updating Redis 8 test image for GH pipeline (#3639)
• Allow newer PyJWT versions (#3636)
• Change type hints with possible None args or return types to be annotated with Optional - includes commands in core.py and json commands (#3610)

🙏 Special Thanks

A big thank you to our collaborators at Scopely for their valuable contributions to this release! Your support and improvements help move the project forward — we appreciate it!

Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release! @robertosantamaria-scopely @sentrivana @terencehonles @kesha1225 @aberres @uglide @omerfeyzioglu @petyaslavova @vladvildanov @andy-stark-redis