What’s new in two: August 2025 edition

In the August 2025 edition of "What’s new in two," Redis introduced several significant updates, including Redis 8 being available in public preview on the Cloud Essentials tier, offering enhanced performance with lower latency, faster replication, and new data structures. Enterprise customers now have the option to use their own encryption keys for data security, while PrivateLink support allows for secure, low-latency connections to Redis Cloud databases. The Bring Your Own Cloud deployments now support Active-Active geo-replication for globally distributed databases. In the AI domain, Redis made strides with LangGraph Redis Checkpoint 0.1.0 improving performance and new integrations with Cognee, AutoGen, and A2A, which enhance AI agent memory and coordination capabilities. Additionally, the LMCache library, which uses Redis as its backend, offers faster inference and lower GPU costs for large language models. Redis Open Source 8.2 has also been released, providing higher throughput, lower latency, and improved memory efficiency, alongside new stream commands and bitmap operators.