Version 6.1.0

NOTE: There were no changes to C code between 6.1.0RC2 and 6.1.0

Documentation:

• Update package.xml to make it clearer that we support many key-value stores [52e69ede] (Remi Collet)
• Fix redis.io urls [0bae4bb0] (Vincent Langlet)

Version 6.1.0RC2

Fixed:

• Fixed a SIGABRT error in PHP 8.4 [a75a7e5a] (Michael Grunder)
• Clean up code for unsupported versions of PHP [37cebdd7] (Remi Collet)
• Add SessionHelpers.php to package.xml[e9474b80] (Remi Collet)
• 8.4 implicit null fix, bump version [bff3a22e, 30c8f90c] [Remi Collet]

Changed:

• Raised minimum supported PHP version to 7.4 [8b519423] (Michael Grunder)

Removed:

• Removed erroneously duplicated changelog entries [40c89736] (Michael Grunder)

Added:

• Added composer.json to support PIE (PHP Installer for Extensions) [b59e35a6] (James Titcumb)

Version 6.1.0RC1

Fixed:

• Fix random connection timeouts with Redis Cluster. [eb7f31e7] (Jozsef Koszo)
• Fix argument count issue in HSET with associative array [6ea5b3e0] (Viktor Djupsjobacka)
• SRANDMEMBER can return any type because of serialization. [6673b5b2] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix HRANDFIELD command when WITHVALUES is used. [99f9fd83] (Michael Grunder)
• Allow context array to be nullable [50529f56] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix a macOS (M1) compiler warning. [7de29d57] (Michael Grunder)
• GETEX documentation/updates and implentation in RedisCluster [981c6931] (Michael Grunder)
• Refactor redis_script_cmd and fix to flush subcommand. [7c551424] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Update liveness check and fix PHP 8.4 compilation error. [c139de3a] (Michael Grunder)
• Rework how we declare ZSTD min/max constants. [34b5bd81] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix memory leak if we fail in ps_open_redis. [0e926165] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix segfault and remove redundant macros [a9e53fd1] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix PHP 8.4 includes [a51215ce] (Michael Grunder)
• Handle arbitrarily large SCAN cursors properly. [2612d444, e52f0afa] (Michael Grunder)
• Improve warning when we encounter an invalid EXPIRY in SET [732e466a] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix Arginfo / zpp mismatch for DUMP command [50e5405c] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• RedisCluster::publish returns a cluster_long_resp [14f93339] (Alexandre Choura)
• Fix segfault when passing just false to auth. [6dc0a0be] (Michael Grunder)
• the VALUE argument type for hSetNx must be the same as for hSet [df074dbe] (Uladzimir Tsykun)
• Other fixes [e18f6c6d, 3d7be358, 2b555c89, fa1a283a, 37c5f8d4] (Michael Grunder, Viktor Szepe)

Added:

• Compression support for PHP sessions. [da4ab0a7] (bitactive)
• Support for early_refresh in Redis sessions to match cluster behavior [b6989018] (Bitactive)
• Implement WAITAOF command. [ed7c9f6f] (Michael Grunder)

Removed:

• PHP 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 CI jobs [d68c30f8, dc39bd55] (Michael Grunder)

Changed:

• Fix the time unit of retry_interval [3fdd52b4] (woodong)

Documentation:

• Many documentation fixes. [eeb51099] (Michael Dwyer)
• fix missing code tags [f865d5b9] (divinity76)
• Mention Valkey support [5f1eecfb] (PlavorSeol)
• Mention KeyDB support in README.md [37fa3592] (Tim Starling)
• Remove mention of pickle [c7a73abb] (David Baker)
• Add session.save_path examples [8a39caeb] (Martin Vancl)
• Tighter return types for Redis::(keys|hKeys|hVals|hGetAll) [77ab62bc] (Benjamin Morel)
• Update stubs [4d233977, ff305349, 12966a74, a4a283ab, 8f8ff72a] (Michael Grunder, Takayasu Oyama, Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)
• Fix config.m4 when using custom dep paths [ece3f7be] (Michael Grunder)
• Fix retry_internal documentation [142c1f4a] (SplotyCode)
• Fix anchor link [9b5cad31] (Git'Fellow)
• Fix typo in link [bfd379f0] (deiga)
• Fix Fedora package url [60b1ba14, 717713e1] (Dmitrii Kotov)
• Update Redis Sentinel documentation to reflect changes to constructor in 6.0 release [dc05d65c] (Pavlo Yatsukhnenko)