Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Re: UPDATE: redis-7.2.0

On 2023/08/29 12:54, Daniel Jakots wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:31:42 +0200, Rafael Sadowski
> <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
>
> > Simple update redis to 7.2.0. Lightly tested on amd64.
> > I think this needs more tests from redis users!
>
> What's the motivation for switch to the 7.x branch?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the project changed quite a bit in the 7.x
> branch (related to antirez stepping down?).
> For instance there was a couple of vulnerabilities that affected only
> the 7.x branch, and they also happened to be the most critical. I'm
> afraid newer is not always better.

seems like something that could maybe be better done by providing
both versions (and shouldn't be too tricky, since there's no shared
library involved like with most other dbs)

they could perhaps even be done without a conflict...

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