📝 Redis version 8.0
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Par Remi le vendredi 25 juillet 2025, 15:12 - RPM - Lien permanent
With version 7.4 Redis Labs choose to switch to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 licenses, so leaving the OpenSource World.
Most linux distributions choose to drop it from their repositories. Various forks exist and Valkey seems a serious one and was chosen as a replacement.
So starting with Fedora 41 or Entreprise Linux 10 (CentOS, RHEL, AlmaLinux, RockyLinux...) redis is no more available, but valkey is.
With version 8.0 Redis Labs choose to switch to AGPLv3 license, and so is back as an OpenSource project.
RPMs of Redis version 8.0.3 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 40 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...).
1. Installation
Packages are available in the redis:remi-8.0 module stream.
1.1. Using dnf4 on Enterprise Linux
# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-<ver>.rpm # dnf module switch-to redis:remi-8.0/common
1.2. Using dnf5 on Fedora
# dnf install https://rpms.remirepo.net/fedora/remi-release-<ver>.rpm # dnf module enable redis:remi-8.0 # dnf install redis --allowerasing
You may have to remove the valkey-compat-redis compatibilty package.
2. Modules
Some optional modules are also available:
- RedisBloom as redis-bloom
- RedisJSON as redis-json
- RedisTimeSeries as redis-timeseries
These packages are weak dependencies of Redis, so they are installed by default (if install_weak_deps is not disabled in the dnf configuration).
The modules are automatically loaded after installation and service (re)start.
The modules are not available for Enterprise Linux 8.
3. Future
Valkey also provides a similar set of modules, requiring some packaging changes already proposed for Fedora official repository.
Redis may be proposed for unretirement and be back in the Fedora official repository, by me if I find enough motivation and energy, or by someone else.
I may also try to solve packaging issues for other modules (e.g. RediSearch). For now, module packages are very far from Packaging Guidelines, so obviously not ready for a review.
4. Statistics
redis
redis-bloom
redis-json
redis-timeseries
