[ANNOUNCEMENT] redis-5.0.0 (stable) Released.

The new PECL package redis-5.0.0 (stable) has been released at https://pecl.php.net/. Release notes ------------- This release contains important improvements and breaking changes. The most interesting are: drop PHP5 support, RedisCluster slots caching, JSON and msgpack serializers, soft deprecation of non-Redis commands. phpredis 5.0.0 * Remove HAVE_SPL [55c5586c] (@petk) * Update Fedora installation instructions [90aa067c] (@remicollet) phpredis 5.0.0RC2 * Allow compilation without JSON serialization enabled and fixes for deprecated helper methods. [235a27] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Fix php msgpack >= 2.0.3 version requirement. [6973478..a537df8] (Michael Grunder) phpredis 5.0.0RC1 * Enable connection pooling by default [8206b147] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Soft deprecate methods that aren't actually Redis commands [a81b4f2d, 95c8aab9] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder) * Enable pooling for cluster slave nodes [17600dd1] (Michael Grunder) * xInfo response format [4852a510, ac9dca0a] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Make the XREADGROUP optional COUNT and BLOCK arguments nullable [0c17bd27] (Michael Grunder) * Allow PING to take an optional argument [6e494170] (Michael Grunder) * Allow ZRANGE to be called either with true or ['withscores' => true] [19f3efcf] (Michael Grunder) * Allow to specify server address as schema://host [418428fa] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Allow persistent_id to be passed as NULL with strict_types enabled [60223762] (Michael Grunder) * Add server address to exception message [e8fb49be, 34d6403d] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Adds OPT_REPLY_LITERAL for rawCommand and EVAL [5cb30fb2] (Michael Grunder) * JSON serializer [98bd2886, 96c57139] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder) * Add support for STREAM to the type command [d7450b2f, 068ce978, 8a45d18c] (Michael Grunder, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko) * Fix TypeError when using built-in constants in setOption [4c7643ee] (@JoyceBabu) * Handle references in MGET [60d8b679] (Michael Grunder) * msgpack serializer [d5b8f833, 545250f3, 52bae8ab] (@bgort, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder) * Add Cluster slots caching [9f0d7bc0, ea081e05] (Michael Grunder) * Drop PHP5 support [f9928642, 46a50c12, 4601887d, 6ebb36ce, fdbe9d29] (Michael Grunder) * Documentation improvements (@alexander-schranz, @cookieguru, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko, Michael Grunder) Package Info ------------- This extension provides an API for communicating with Redis servers. Related Links ------------- Package home: https://pecl.php.net/package/redis Changelog: https://pecl.php.net/package-changelog.php?package=redis Download: https://pecl.php.net/get/redis-5.0.0.tgz Authors ------------- Nicolas Favre-Felix (lead) Michael Grunder <michael.grunder@gmail.com> (lead) Pavlo Yatsukhnenko (lead)