Memorystore for Redis release notes

This page documents production updates to Memorystore for Redis. You can periodically check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.

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February 29, 2024

Added support for vector store and vector search capabilities (Preview). For more details, see About vector search.

January 31, 2024

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Johannesburg (africa-south1).

September 19, 2023

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Dammam (me-central2).

August 15, 2023

Added support for RDB Snapshots for the M5 capacity tier.

July 17, 2023

Redis version 7.0 is now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

June 06, 2023

Access Transparency is now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

April 25, 2023

Added support for Committed use discounts for Memorystore.

March 28, 2023

Self-service maintenance is now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

October 05, 2022

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Tel Aviv (me-west1).

September 27, 2022

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Dallas (us-south1).

August 19, 2022

Customer-managed encryption keys are now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

August 03, 2022

RDB Snapshots are now Generally Available on Memorystore for Redis.

June 10, 2022

Added support for customer-managed encryption keys (Preview) for Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see Customer-managed encryption keys.

May 24, 2022

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Milan (europe-west8).

March 25, 2022

Maintenance Windows are now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

March 16, 2022

Read replicas are now Generally Available for Memorystore for Redis.

March 09, 2022

Basic Tier instances now preserve data during scaling and maintenance. For a full list of operations/scenarios that cause a cache flush for the Basic Tier, see cache flush for Basic Tier.

February 14, 2022

Added support for enabling read replicas (preview) on existing instances. For more information, see Behavior of enabling read replicas on an existing instance. Also added the capability to perform version upgrade and manual failover operations on instances that use read replicas.

February 08, 2022

Added support for upgrading the Redis version of an instance to any higher version.

January 24, 2022

Released the RDB Snapshots (Preview) feature for Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see RDB Snapshots.

January 10, 2022

Memorystore for Redis now supports non-RFC 1918 IP addresses networks, with the exception of privately used public IP addresses (PUPI). These additional network addresses can be used for both Memorystore for Redis instances and incoming client connections. For more details, see Supported networks and client IP ranges.

November 17, 2021

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Santiago (southamerica-west1).

November 11, 2021

Released the Read Replicas (Preview) feature for Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see Read replicas.

September 07, 2021

Redis version 6.x is now Generally Available on Memorystore for Redis.

August 03, 2021

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Toronto (northamerica-northeast2).

August 02, 2021

Enabled cross region access for Memorystore for Redis.

July 20, 2021

Added support for Maintenance Windows for Memorystore for Redis.

June 29, 2021

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis region: Delhi (asia-south2)

June 21, 2021

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Melbourne (australia-southeast2).

June 10, 2021

Added support for Upgrading the Redis version of an instance with the Google Cloud Console.

Released support for Redis version 6.x (Preview) on Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see Supported versions.

May 24, 2021

Added support for specifying an IP address range for the private service access connection mode. For more information, see Custom ranges with private services access.

April 15, 2021

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Warsaw (europe-central2).

March 05, 2021

Support for In-transit encryption on Memorystore for Redis is now Generally Available.

December 17, 2020

Added support for TLS encryption on Memorystore for Redis.

December 08, 2020

Support for Redis AUTH on Memorystore for Redis is now Generally Available.

October 06, 2020

Added support for Redis AUTH to Memorystore for Redis.

October 01, 2020

Added Cloud Console UI support for creating Redis instances with Shared VPC using private services access.

July 28, 2020

Support for VPC Service Controls on Memorystore for Redis is now Generally Available.

June 08, 2020

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Jakarta (asia-southeast2).

June 03, 2020

The Version Upgrade and Redis version 5.0 features are now Generally Available on Memorystore for Redis.

May 13, 2020

Released support for VPC Service Controls for Memorystore for Redis.

April 20, 2020

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Las Vegas (us-west4).

March 24, 2020

Released support for Redis version 5.0 (beta) on Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see Supported versions.

March 16, 2020

Added new Memorystore for Redis region: Salt Lake City (us-west3).

February 27, 2020

Released support for private services access, which enables Shared VPC networks and centralized IP address management for Memorystore. For more details, see Networking.

February 05, 2020

Released the Redis version upgrade feature in beta. For more information, see Upgrading the Redis version for an instance.

January 24, 2020

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis region: Seoul (asia-northeast3)

January 07, 2020

The Import and Export features are now Generally Available on Cloud Memorystore for Redis.

October 22, 2019

Released the maxmemory-gb configuration, allowing you to adjust your instance's maxmemory-gb limit. To learn how to manage maxmemory-gb, see Maxmemory configuration. To learn how to adjust maxmemory-gb, see Configuring Redis instances.

October 07, 2019

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis regions: Osaka (asia-northeast2) and Zurich (europe-west6).

July 03, 2019

Released the RDB import and export feature in beta. For more details, see Import and export overview.

June 17, 2019

Open source Redis version 4.0 is now Generally Available on Cloud Memorystore. See Supported versions for more details.

June 06, 2019

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis regions: Hong Kong (asia-east2), Montréal (northamerica-northeast1), Mumbai (asia-south1), and São Paulo (southamerica-east1).

April 03, 2019

Released the manual failover feature for standard tier Cloud Memorystore for Redis instances. For more details, see Manual failover.

March 28, 2019

Released OSS Redis version 4.0 (beta) for Cloud Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see Supported versions.

November 29, 2018

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis region: Frankfurt (europe-west3).

November 15, 2018

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis regions: Sydney (australia-southeast1), London (europe-west2), and Northern Virginia (us-east4).

October 22, 2018

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis regions: Finland (europe-north1) and Los Angeles (us-west2).

September 19, 2018

General Availability release of Cloud Memorystore for Redis.

Added new Cloud Memorystore for Redis regions: Tokyo (asia-northeast1), Singapore (asia-southeast1), Netherlands (europe-west4).

June 21, 2018

Redis version updated with latest security fix.

May 09, 2018

Beta release of Cloud Memorystore for Redis.

July 22, 2017

Cloud Memorystore for Redis Alpha Release launched.