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We are introducing multi-version support for Aiven for Valkey™. You can now choose between the two latest upstream Valkey versions when creating or upgrading your services. This flexibility is available for both standalone and clustered modes, allowing you to test new features or maintain environment stability on your own schedule.

For more details and upgrade instructions, see our documen [...]

Valkey Search now lets you search across text, tag, numeric, and vector attributes in a single query, and analyze results with server-side aggregations at the low latency you expect from Valkey. Valkey Search enables searching terabytes of data with latency as low as microseconds, providing a flexible foundation for querying across a range of use cases, from powering in-app search experiences to [...]

Do you ever wonder why we still manage Valkey the same way we always have? The honest answer is that it works. And once something works, it tends to stick around.

You spin up a Valkey cluster. Maybe it's three nodes. Maybe it's thirty. You need to inspect a key, so you open a terminal, start valkey-cli, connect, run a command, read the output, then do it again. If you need to [...]

Engineers operating large-scale systems face a consistent challenge: what works at moderate scale often breaks in subtle ways as systems grow. Recently, contributors and platform teams gathered at the Unlocked Conference to compare notes on what actually happens when Valkey is under real production load.

What follows are high-level observations from the day — directional insights that kep [...]

This release improves PrivateLink management with enhanced GCP PrivateLink connection approval through the new psc_connection_id field in aiven_gcp_privatelink_connection_approval. It lets you select specific connections when multiple PSC connections exist for the same service. Additionally, privatelink_connection_id support has been added across all servic [...]

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.

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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.

The post Large Objects Ruin the Party – Valkey 9 Tames Them appeared first on Momento.

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

The post OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.

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.

The post How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork appeared first on Linux Today.

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.