Yandex Managed Service for Valkey™ release notes

December 2025December 2025

• Added detailed metrics for disk usage on cluster hosts.
• Added execution details for operations on the cluster.
• All new clusters are created with a Connection Manager connection by default.

November 2025November 2025

Added the managed-redis.restorer role for restoring clusters from backups. To learn more, see Access management.

October 2025October 2025

• A new version is out: Valkey™ 9.0. For more information about the updates, see this Valkey™ guide.
• Added support for:
  • Valkey-Search: Vector and full-text search.
  • Valkey-JSON: Native support for JSON documents.
  • Valkey-Bloom: Probabilistic data structures.
• When creating a Valkey™ user, you can now immediately specify their permissions. Do it with the help of an ACL (Access Control List) which controls the user's permissions to run particular commands.
• Added integration with Connection Manager. This tool allows you to connect to the cluster without directly using a password, thus reducing the risk of it being compromised.
• Added the ability to restore a sharded cluster from a backup.
• Added new host classes on AMD Zen 4 and AMD Zen 4 HighFreq platforms.

July 2025July 2025

• Now you can encrypt storage disks with a custom KMS key when creating a cluster and restoring it from a backup.
• Added support for persistence on replicas only.

May 2025May 2025

A new version is out: Valkey™ 8.1. For more information about the updates, see this Valkey™ article.

April 2025April 2025

A new version is out: Valkey™ 8.0. For more information about the updates, see this Valkey™ article.

December 2024December 2024

The service migrated to Valkey™ DBMS, an open-source fork of Redis.

September 2024September 2024

• A new Redis version is out: 7.2. For more information about the updates, see this Redis article.
• Redis 6.2 and 7.0 are no longer supported. Creating clusters of these versions is no longer available. One month after the release of Redis 7.2, existing Redis 6.2 and Redis 7.0 clusters were automatically upgraded to Redis 7.2.

February 2024February 2024

Sharding can now be enabled on existing clusters.

Q1 2023Q1 2023

• A new version is out: Redis 7.0. For more information about the updates, see this Redis article.
• Added the rdsync integration for improved fault tolerance of Redis 7.0 clusters.

Q2 2022Q2 2022

• Redis 5.0 and 6.0 are no longer supported. Creating clusters of these versions is no longer available. One month after the release of Redis 7.0, existing Redis 5.0 and Redis 6.0 clusters were automatically upgraded to Redis 6.2.
• In Terraform, added the replica_priority and assign_public_ip settings.
• Fixed the error where you could not use Terraform to manage the maintenance window.
• You can now change the client-output-buffer-limit normal and pub/sub settings. For more information, see the redis.conf file description.

Q1 2022Q1 2022

• You can now create clusters with public access. You can enable or update this setting at the host level and only for clusters with TLS support.
• You can now manage persistence settings. Disabling persistence improves cluster performance but increases the risk of data loss. For more information, see Persistence.