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Redis 3.0 release notes
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WARNING: Redis 3.0 is currently a BETA not suitable for production environments.

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Upgrade urgency levels:

LOW:      No need to upgrade unless there are new features you want to use.
MODERATE: Program an upgrade of the server, but it's not urgent.
HIGH:     There is a critical bug that may affect a subset of users. Upgrade!
CRITICAL: There is a critical bug affecting MOST USERS. Upgrade ASAP.
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--[ Redis 3.0.0 Beta 1 (version 2.9.50) ] Release date: 11 Feb 2014

This is the first beta of Redis 3.0.0 (official version is 2.8.50).

The following is a list of improvements in Redis 3.0, compared to Redis 2.8.

* [NEW] Redis Cluster: a distributed implementation of a subset of Redis.
* [NEW] New "embedded string" object encoding resulting in less cache
        misses. Big speed gain under certain work loads.
* [NEW] WAIT command to block waiting for a write to be transmitted to
        the specified number of slaves.
* [NEW] MIGRATE connection caching. Much faster keys migraitons.
* [NEW] MIGARTE new options COPY and REPLACE.
* [NEW] CLIENT PAUSE command: stop processing client requests for a
        specified amount of time.

Migrating from 2.8 to 3.0
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Redis 3.0 is mostly a strict subset of 2.8, you should not have any problem
upgrading your application from 2.8 to 3.0.

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Credits: Where not specified the implementation and design is done by
Salvatore Sanfilippo. Thanks to Pivotal for making all this possible.
Also many thanks to all the other contributors and the amazing community
we have.

See commit messages for more credits.

Cheers,
Salvatore