Redis Release Notes

Validated on 24 Apr 2025

April 2025

24 April

  • DigitalOcean Managed Caching is approaching its end of availability (EOA). You cannot create new Caching clusters past 30 April 2025 (except if you already have an existing Caching cluster), and the product will be discontinued on 30 June 2025.

    To replace Managed Caching, we are now offering Managed Valkey, a Redis-compatible alternative that offers RDMA and higher throughput.

    All Managed Caching clusters will automatically convert to Valkey clusters by 30 June 2025 during your upgrade window, retaining all data. You can also manually convert your Caching cluster to Valkey using our conversion guide.

February 2025

28 February

December 2024

20 December

August 2024

15 August

June 2024

17 June

May 2024

29 May

April 2024

8 April

  • You can now view hundreds of new database metrics by accessing the metrics API endpoint. For more detailed steps, see our guides for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka.

February 2024

13 February

  • You can now reconfigure MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis databases via the API, which lets you edit many database engine parameters that were previously unavailable for editing. For more detailed steps, see How to Reconfigure Database Clusters.

October 2022

13 October

  • When creating a new Kubernetes cluster, you can add a free database operator (now in beta), which allows you to automatically link new databases to your cluster. For more details, see our guide.

September 2022

7 September

  • Redis 7.0 is now available when creating new databases. You can no longer create Redis 6.0 clusters. On 5 November 2022, we will officially no longer support 6.0 and will automatically upgrade all existing clusters to 7.0, with no expected downtime or interruptions.

June 2022

27 June

  • To improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

March 2022

4 March

  • You can now configure your MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis managed databases by making a PATCH request to /v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}/config. For example:

    {
  "config": {
    "sql_mode": "ANSI,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,STRICT_ALL_TABLES",
    "sql_require_primary_key": true
  }
}

    For more details, see the full reference documentation for the managed databases API.

February 2022

1 February

  • The database online migration feature for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis database engines no longer supports migrating databases from clusters inside of DigitalOcean to other clusters inside of DigitalOcean.

January 2022

25 January

  • Online migration is now available for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis database engines. Online migration allows you to migrate databases from external servers or cloud providers to databases in your DigitalOcean account.

6 January

August 2021

9 August

  • Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

    • The database firewall sub-commands now support apps as trusted sources
    • New monitoring alert sub-commands for creating and managing alert policies
    • The --droplet-agent flag was added to the compute droplet create sub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console

March 2021

30 March

  • You can now deploy managed databases on Droplets with dedicated CPUs for the PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis engines.

3 March

  • Online migration for PostgreSQL and Redis databases has been released in Beta. Select users can now migrate Redis and PostgreSQL databases that reside inside and outside of DigitalOcean to existing database clusters in their DigitalOcean account. Redis migrations from AWS ElasticCache are not currently supported.

November 2020

18 November

  • Redis 6 managed databases are now available. Redis 6 includes enhanced security features and client-side caching. You can no longer create Redis 5 clusters, but Redis 6 clusters are fully backwards compatible.

April 2020

28 April

  • The DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now available for all customers. VPC replaces the private networking service. Existing private networks will continue to function as normal but with the enhanced security and features of the VPC service. See the description of VPC features for more information.

7 April

January 2020

27 January

  • v1.13.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider is now available. This release adds support for tagging managed databases clusters.

December 2019

19 December

  • Released v1.12.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform Provider. This release contains improvements to Managed Database support including a new resource for configuring trusted sources and the ability to set the global SQL mode or Redis eviction policy on a cluster. There is also a new data source for finding supported Kubernetes versions. Learn more on the Terraform Changelog.

17 December

  • Bandwidth billing for managed databases, originally slated to begin in January 2020, has been postponed to 2021. Egress bandwidth for managed databases clusters will continue to be waived until then.

November 2019

21 November

September 2019

24 September

4 September

August 2019

27 August

20 August

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