9.9.0

🚀 Highlights

• Token-based Authentication: Added StreamingCredentialsProvider for dynamic credential updates (experimental)
  • Can be used with go-redis-entraid for Azure AD authentication
• Connection Statistics: Added connection waiting statistics for better monitoring
• Failover Improvements: Added ParseFailoverURL for easier failover configuration
• Ring Client Enhancements: Added shard access methods for better Pub/Sub management

✨ New Features

• Added StreamingCredentialsProvider for token-based authentication (#3320)
  • Supports dynamic credential updates
  • Includes connection close hooks
  • Note: Currently marked as experimental
• Added ParseFailoverURL for parsing failover URLs (#3362)
• Added connection waiting statistics (#2804)
• Added new utility functions:
  • ParseFloat and MustParseFloat in public utils package (#3371)
  • Unit tests for Atoi, ParseInt, ParseUint, and ParseFloat (#3377)
• Added Ring client shard access methods:
  • GetShardClients() to retrieve all active shard clients
  • GetShardClientForKey(key string) to get the shard client for a specific key (#3388)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed routing reads to loading slave nodes (#3370)
• Added support for nil lag in XINFO GROUPS (#3369)
• Fixed pool acquisition timeout issues (#3381)
• Optimized unnecessary copy operations (#3376)

📚 Documentation

• Updated documentation for XINFO GROUPS with nil lag support (#3369)
• Added package-level comments for new features

⚡ Performance and Reliability

• Optimized ReplaceSpaces function (#3383)
• Set default value for Options.Protocol in init() (#3387)
• Exported pool errors for public consumption (#3380)

🔧 Dependencies and Infrastructure

• Updated Redis CI to version 8.0.1 (#3372)
• Updated spellcheck GitHub Actions (#3389)
• Removed unused parameters (#3382, #3384)

🧪 Testing

• Added unit tests for pool acquisition timeout (#3381)
• Added unit tests for utility functions (#3377)

👥 Contributors

We would like to thank all the contributors who made this release possible:

@ndyakov, @ofekshenawa, @LINKIWI, @iamamirsalehi, @fukua95, @lzakharov, @DengY11

📝 Changelog

For a complete list of changes, see the full changelog.