6.0.0

django-redis 6.0.0 (2025-06-17)

Features

• Support HashMaps (#598 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/598>_)
• Support gzip compression (#688 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/688>_)
• Support for sets and support basic operations, sadd, scard, sdiff, sdiffstore, sinter, sinterstore, smismember, sismember, smembers, smove, spop, srandmember, srem, sscan, sscan_iter, sunion, sunionstore (#730 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/730>_)

Bug Fixes

• Hotfix for timeout=DEFAULT_TIMEOUT in expire and pexpire (#724 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/724>_)
• Fix is_master parsing error for write separation in sentinel mode (#749 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/749>_)
• Added blocking parameter for cache.lock (#752 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/752>_)

Miscellaneous

• Added support for Python 3.12 (#689 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/689>_)
• Pin pytest to <7.0 until compatibility issues are resolved (#690 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/690>_)
• Replace isort and flake8 with ruff (#692 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/692>_)
• Drop django 4.0 (#693 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/693>_)
• Upgrade black to 23.10.1 (#695 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/695>_)
• Typed DefaultClient (#696 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/696>_)
• Support pytest>=7 (#697 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/697>_)
• Drop support for django 3.2, python 3.6 and python 3.7 (#699 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/699>_)
• Support tox 4 (#701 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/701>_)
• Configured dependabot for github actions (#702 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/702>_)
• Use ubuntu-latest for CI (#703 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/703>_)
• Dropped support for django 4.1 and added support for django 5.0 (#729 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/729>_)
• Added support for django 5.1 (#754 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/754>_)
• Update minimum supported versions in README.md: Python to 3.8, Django to 4.2, redis-py to 4.0.2 (#755 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/755>_)
• Added support for Python 3.13 (#756 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/756>_)
• Speed up tests by using pytest-xdist and separating settings on different redis databases.
  Dropped pytest-django
  Using docker-compose for setting up redis containers for testing
  Use tox-uv (#757 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/757>_)
• Confirm support for Django 5.2.
  Fix shadowing builtin Python exceptions. (#824 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/824>_)

Deprecations and Removals

• Drop support for Python 3.8 (#852 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/852>_)

5.4.0

django-redis 5.4.0 (2023-10-01)

Features

• Connection factory goes to cache options (#680 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/680>_)

Documentation

• Added note in docs for correctly configuring hiredis parser when using redis-py version 5. (#677 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/677>_)

django-redis 5.3.0 (2023-06-16)

Features

• Add support for django 4 (#627 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/627>_)

Bug Fixes

• Access django_redis.cache.DJANGO_REDIS_SCAN_ITERSIZE and django_redis.client.herd.CACHE_HERD_TIMEOUT in runtime to not read Django settings in import time. (#638 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/638>_)
• Skipping pickle serializer test for django >= 4.2 (#646 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/646>_)

Miscellaneous

• Speed up deleting multiple keys by a pattern with pipelines and larger itersize (#609 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/609>_)
• Print full exception traceback when logging ignored exceptions (#611 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/611>_)
• Fix mypy linting (#626 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/626>_)
• Added support for python 3.11 (#633 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/633>_)
• Fix CI, running tox<4 to still support Python 3.6. (#645 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/645>_)
• Dropped support for django 2.2 and 3.1 (#649 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/649>_)
• Run actions & tox against Django 4..2 (#668 <https://github.com/jazzband/django-redis/issues/668>_)