VOOZH about

URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redis-8.6-Released

⇱ Redis 8.6 Released With "Substantial" Performance Improvements & Memory Reduction - Phoronix


👁 Phoronix

Redis 8.6 Released With "Substantial" Performance Improvements & Memory Reduction

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 10 February 2026 at 09:25 AM EST. 17 Comments
The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought "substantial" performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features like TLS certificate-based automatic client authentication, time series enhancements, and new eviction policies.

Among the performance improvements with Redis 8.6 are optimizing prefetching, ZRANK optimizations, using the hardware block by default on AArch64, optimizing user ACL permission verification, optimizing peak memory metric collection, reducing per-command system calls, and various vector optimizations especially for Intel and AMD CPUs.

👁 Redis 8.6 substantial performance


The release notes classify the performance improvements and memory reductions as "substantial" but haven't yet seen any performance comparison benchmarks for reference.

Downloads and more details on Redis 8.6 open-source via GitHub.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.