As the latest (and future) releases of Redis are no longer open source, users who want to keep their data running on top of open source software face a choice: keep running on legacy Redis OSS, or upgrade to one of the more recent forks that the open source community has created.

Memetria will support both options.

We have been running builds of Valkey since that project was first announced as a fork created from the last open source release of Redis. The work already put into this project, and its forward momentum, are impressive.

Valkey 7.2 offers a clean, backwards-compatible upgrade path for users of Redis OSS to continue using the clients and features they enjoy while keeping a regular cadence of community-driven updates.

This upgrade path is now the main one supported by Memetria. All customers on our 7.2 branch are being seamlessly transitioned from data stores running Redis OSS 7.2 to Valkey 7.2 to ensure the latest security patches and bugfixes can be applied. Upgrades from earlier versions of Redis OSS are also supported.

We look forward to supporting similar zero-downtime upgrades to some of the exciting new features of Valkey soon.