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Date Published
Author
Itamar Haber
Word count
1118
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Redis project has released version 6.2, marking a major milestone with dozens of new commands and extensions to existing ones, as well as performance and memory optimizations. This release is significant due to the intense involvement of the community, which led to over 35 developers contributing their expertise in its development. The new governance model adopted by the project's core team emphasizes open, transparent, and full-duplex communication between developers and users, recognizing the community as Redis' most important asset. The release addresses long-standing issues and introduces new features such as the GETEX command, SMISMEMBER command, and bounding box GEOSEARCH queries, demonstrating the community's commitment to the project and its momentum of development.