Planet for the Valkey Community

As we kick off 2026, it’s a great moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate what the Valkey project and its community has accomplished together. This past year marked an important chapter for Valkey, one defined by growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to building an open, high-performance key-value store for everyone.

This past year brought meaningful progress [...]

This release introduces significant updates including Kubernetes v0.28 support. The operator now requires Go 1.20+.

A major change in this version is the complete removal of the Redis kind and controller from the operator, as Redis has reached end of life. Use Valkey instead for all caching services.

Key enhancements in this release include:

• Enhanced backup ca [...]

Tail latencies are where promises break. You can have a system that's fast 99% of the time, but that 1% is what users remember.

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When HashiCorp changed the licenses of Terraform and many of its other products from open source MPL 2.0 to the

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Database support provider is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the . For Kubernetes environs, the newly

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Last year, Bitnami changed how it publishes and supports many container images and Helm charts (see charts issue #35164, charts issue #36215, and the Bitnami Secure Images announcement). Some images move behind new terms, and older tags may not be available as before.

If your pipelines pull Bitnami charts or images during deploys, you may experience significant operational issues: rollout [...]

Discover how the Valkey team recognized the need for a fork, exploring their strategic decisions and the impact on the project's future.

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What's new

The Valkey™ JSON module is now available for all Aiven for Valkey™ services. This module extends Valkey features with advanced JSON data handling capabilities.

Key features

• Native JSON storage: Store JSON documents as values directly in Valkey
• JSONPath queries: Query JSON documents using standard JSONPath syntax
• Atomic updates: Make atomic u [...]

AI was big in 2025, but so were many other developments and worries. The biggest open source stories in 2025

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TOKYO — Forking an open source project is never a first choice. It is divisive, dangerous, and politically risky. But

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Most of the production security incidents I've helped debug started with misconfigurations rather than zero-days or sophisticated exploits.

Security misconfiguration ranks as A05 in the OWASP Top 10:2021, with 90% of applications tested showing some form of misconfiguration. That's staggering. And when it comes to infrastructure like Valkey, the stakes are even higher - your cache often s [...]

This version of the Aiven Terraform Provider adds write-only password support to service user resources, including aiven_kafka_user, aiven_mysql_user, aiven_opensearch_user, aiven_pg_user, and aiven_valkey_user. You can now manage passwords for these service users securely without storing them in your state file by using the new

Today, we are announcing that Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the WATCH command for same-slot transactions, helping developers build more reliable applications with improved data consistency in high-concurrency scenarios. With this launch, the WATCH command makes transactions conditional, ensuring they execute only when monitored keys remain unchanged.

For ElastiCache Serverl [...]

We are excited to announce the launch of Aiven for Valkey™ clustering in limited availability. This managed solution provides scalable, distributed in-memory data storage with built-in high availability.

Aiven for Valkey clustering automatically partitions your data across multiple nodes (shards), enabling you to handle larger datasets and higher traffic loads than a single-node deployment [...]

Repatriation, Control, and the Start of Santa’s Database Modernization Journey Welcome to the first of a 6 part holiday series called, How ClusterControl Saved Christmas! Releasing twice a week, each part will take a look at issues and solutions around operational control and continuity for modern data workloads from what we hope is a fun […]

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Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing practical, technical insights for DBAs, DevOps engineers, and developers. The main takeaway was clear: Stability, Openness, and Automation are essential for modern, large-scale data infrastructure.

Engineering wins look dramatic from the outside. From the inside, they're months of small, unglamorous changes - the kind nobody celebrates until they compound into something that looks impossible.

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The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0, the open-source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. The latest major version introduces atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and full support for numbered databases in cluster mode, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second.

At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last week, premium database service provider demonstrated its new technology for encrypting data at rest on

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Few things make SREs more nervous than rebalancing a cache cluster. You know the feeling. You add a node, trigger a rebalance, and suddenly latency graphs start jumping. It’s a familiar risk of the job, especially when your cache sits between your users and your database. A small configuration mistake here can suddenly unleash a […]

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Aiven for Valkey™ version 8.1 is now available on the Aiven Platform. It introduces multiple improvements on top of version 8.0, including:

Performance improvements

• New hashtable implementation: Reduces the average memory needed for key-value pairs and the number of random memory accesses. It also improves throughput by approximately 10% on pipeline workloads when not using I/O [...]

Redis recently released a security advisory regarding CVE-2025-49844. This critical (CVSS 10.0) use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in Lua scripting could allow authenticated attackers to execute remote code on older versions of Redis and Valkey with Lua scripting enabled. Developers are urged to upgrade to patched releases as soon as possible.

Valkey 9.0 introduces numbered databases in cluster mode - a subtle change that simplifies multi-tenant design, data isolation, and atomic data updates.

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Discover Valkey 9.0, the advanced in-memory data store featuring atomic slot migrations and clustered databases for enhanced performance and reliability.

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Managing the topology of a distributed database is one of the most critical and challenging tasks for any operator. For a high-performance system like Valkey, moving data slots between nodes —a process known as resharding— needs to be fast, reliable, and easy.

Clustered Valkey has historically supported resharding through a process known as slot migration, where one or more of the 16,384 [...]

The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project’s launch

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Valkey 9 is the best demonstration of the dream of the open source model. It boosts stability at scale, improves developer experience, and is faster than ever.

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For Valkey's second major release, Valkey 9.0 brings innovation, long-requested features, and improvements to classic features updated for today’s workloads. Read on to find out all the team packed into this release.

Atomic slot migrations fundamentally changes how Valkey migrates data from node-to-node inside the cluster. Prior to Valkey 9.0, data migrated in the c [...]

The upcoming Valkey 9.0 release brings major improvements in the resilience of large clusters, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second, all while ensuring bounded recovery time. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how the Valkey clustering system works, along with the architectural improvements and rigorous testing that made this level of scale p [...]

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. Customers can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with latency as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall.

Key use cases include semantic caching for large language mode [...]

On October 3rd, 2025, Redis released details on CVE-2025-49844.

This particular vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution using a specially crafted Lua script.

This affects all Redis and Valkey versions that have Lua scripting support.

This issue is resolved in:

• Redis: 8.2.2+, 8.04+, 7.4.6+, 7.2.11+, 6.2.20+
• Published Thursday, 09. October 2025 07:20 • 4 months ago

When you run infrastructure at scale, the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings. Sorted sets (ZSETs) are the backing data structure for far more than leaderboards. They're used for time‑ordered feeds, priority queues, recommendation rankings and more. Each entry carries per‑item overhead; when you're inserting tens of millions of items, those bytes accumulate into gigabytes. The la [...]

Valkey 8.1 uses 28% less memory than Redis 8.2 in our 50M sorted set benchmark. See the throughput and memory data from real-world hyperscale testing.

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One of the great strengths of Valkey has always been its built-in ability to expire keys. This simple but powerful mechanism lets developers keep their datasets fresh, automatically clear caches, or enforce session lifetimes without additional logic. But there has always been one limitation: expiration worked at the level of whole keys. If you stored multiple fields in a hash, you could set a TT [...]

Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…

If you explore Valkey’s documentation you might run across a feature called ‘numbered databases’ which allows you to separate the keyspace into (by default) 16 different databases. Digging into this feature reveals tantalizing ways to avoid key prefixing, house different workloads together on Valkey, and even perform patterns that are otherwise clunky. However, if you’ve done more research outsi [...]