6.3.0RC1

This release introduces support for dozens of new commands, including hash field expiration, Valkey’s DELIFEQ, and Redis vector set operations. It also delivers numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

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• Salvatore Sanfilippo
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Fixed

• Fix possible hash field name truncation 834d2b37 (michael-grunder)
• Fix a possible segfault during failover 5ebb853e (rlerdorf)
• Bump version and fix XGROUP test f5db01b7, 4517d5f9 (remicollet)
• Fix an overflow bug in ZADD on Windows 35df8ad7 (michael-grunder)
• Fix errors and a warning b8de91c9 (michael-grunder)
• Fix RedisCluster segfault f61e8cd7 (michael-grunder)
• Fix passing NULL for hash expiry argument ca80ee0e (michael-grunder)
• Fix an off-by-one length calculation error 340f23b0 (michael-grunder)
• Fix hset fields handling 6b2f088d (yatsukhnenko)
• Fix HSetEx expiry argument handling 7805da75 (yatsukhnenko)
• Fix the echo liveness check when in sentinel mode 2acab399 (michael-grunder)
• Fix double -> int truncation warning 152fdda9 (michael-grunder)
• Fix SIGABRT in PHP 8.4 with RedisArray 3c64b33f (Novynn)
• Fixing segfault in cluster_update_slot b0ba827b (JacobBrownAustin)
• Fix typo d0b0c5cf (michael-grunder)
• Fix compiling with PHP 8.5.0 alpha3 and newer 1e6f5477 (wyattoday)
• Fix error length calculation + UB sanity check e73130fe (michael-grunder)
• Fix arguments order for SET command f73f5fcc (yatsukhnenko)

Added

• Add hgetwithmeta method 7d3b2e4d (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Add maxRetries to redis_sock_configure e9e9e495 (michael-grunder)
• Implement vectorset commands 92dd256f, d80b7258, 7f9b1f41, 92716ed0, dc91631b, 1deca628, 96378b70, 0fda9f29, 0ed0fc05, d1d69005, 286fa630, 38115dec, c4b2ea6c, 6ce3bd53 (michael-grunder)
• Implement GEOSEARCH[STORE] BYPOLYGON 8d369f4d, f24814a4 (michael-grunder)
• Implement Valkey's DELIFEQ command b1b0c191 (michael-grunder)
• Add an INI setting returning 5.x legacy behavior -- readonly session on lock failure 8dada174 (arokettu)
• Implement several hash expiration commands 7350768c (michael-grunder)
• Introduce Redis::serverName and Redis::serverVersion methods 056c2dbe cbaf095f
  fa3eb006 (yatsukhnenko) (michael-grunder)
• New option 'database' for Redis class constructor 4f6a3ed1 (JakubOnderka)
• Implement HGETEX, HSETEX, HGETDEL, and refactor HMGET ce5b0fac (michael-grunder)
• Implement GETDEL for RedisCluster d342e4ac (michael-grunder)

Changed

• Check for dragonfly_version in HELLO response 593ba012 (michael-grunder)
• Simplify redis_unpack method calling 0a85bd82 (JakubOnderka)
• Refactor getWithMeta logic 0445e683 (michael-grunder)
• cleanup session temp file 3828c929 (remicollet)
• Make execHello protected 300c5fb2 (michael-grunder)

Documentation

• Update Relay sponsorship 7a69d73 (tillkruss)
• Fix markdown headlines 1d662f56 (tillkruss)
• document PECL configure options 2066cfad (tillkruss)
• Improve wording in README about project support 0ac01476 (tillkruss)
• Improve install instructions c0076036 (remicollet)
• Clean up README.md: fix typos, spelling, and grammar errors 09cd4c54 (Copilot)
• Refine parameter descriptions and examples in README f9f609e1 (joshtrichards)
• Link to the correct header d18db84c (wyattoday)
• Update README.md about supported PHP versions. b7a97e5e (AkameOuO)
• Broaden return type for Redis::hGetAll bfbab892 (mgiuffrida)

Tests/CI

• Add a regression test for EVAL[SHA] 22a2914b (michael-grunder)
• Rework HEXPIRE test inclusion + bump Valkey b83981aa (michael-grunder)
• Add PHP 8.5 to CI 334937cb (yatsukhnenko)
• Attempt to fix flaky GitHub CI tests 80140003 (michael-grunder)
• Reorganize tests 807f806f (yatsukhnenko)

Internal/Performance

• Introduce [[nodiscard]] type attribute where supported. 2d963e79 (michael-grunder)
• Fix typo (s/sees/seeds/) 25e6d5fc (xabbuh)
• Fix an unused variable warning b48aa0d4 (michael-grunder)
• Fix several issues surfaced by gcc -fanalyze 8be2306e (michael-grunder)
• Fix dead assignment d564e8cf (michael-grunder)
• Refactor redis_replicaof_cmd 659dc763 (michael-grunder)
• Refactor several command handling macros into typesafe static functions 9802fc0e, 8f0931bb, 7c953d45, 950d2bc7, 601ebbff, c3a71631, b0040514, fae89fa9, f880e1f7, b90e27f2, 1db39089 (michael-grunder)
• Refactor EVAL[SHA] command and add a regression test 6e5faf42 (michael-grunder)
• New macros REDIS_RESPONSE_ERROR and REDIS_RETURN_ZVAL 614b86e4 (JakubOnderka)
• Remove wrapper macro which hides branching logic 58e1a04f (michael-grunder)
• Use continue not break if we get a NULL node 8685c49c (michael-grunder)
• Remove pointless casts 03837f02 (michael-grunder)
• Change int flags to zend_bool since we only use them as booleans 77691947 (michael-grunder)
• Remove unused macros + simplify some logic 75acbb09 (michael-grunder)