{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "id": "develop/whats-new/6-2",
  "title": "Redis 6.2",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/whats-new/6-2/",
  "summary": "What's new in Redis 6.2",
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "rs",
    "rc"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-03-09T06:38:54-07:00",
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "861787f4a724af09cced7643133f27bde7c3ce65b2af9615164bb56a19bf38ab",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "overview",
      "title": "Overview",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "Redis version 6.2 introduces new capabilities designed to improve data indexing, querying, and analytics. This update brings multi-value indexing, expanded wildcard query support, and a new probabilistic data structure for quantile estimation. Additionally, significant enhancements to Redis streams and time series data processing offer greater flexibility for developers working with real-time and historical datasets. Over 25 new commands have been added to Redis that address key feature requests and further extending its capabilities.\nBelow is a detailed breakdown of these improvements."
    },
    {
      "id": "new-features",
      "title": "New features",
      "role": "content",
      "text": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "multi-value-indexing-and-querying",
      "title": "Multi-value indexing and querying",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Redis now supports indexing and querying multi-value attributes across all field types, including `TEXT`, `TAG`, `NUMERIC`, `GEO`, and `VECTOR`. Developers can define JSONPath expressions leading to arrays or multiple scalar values, overcoming the previous limitation of indexing only single scalar attributes."
    },
    {
      "id": "wildcard-query-support",
      "title": "Wildcard query support",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Redis Search now enables suffix and infix wildcard searches for `TEXT` and `TAG` fields. This enhancement provides greater flexibility in data retrieval and filtering."
    },
    {
      "id": "t-digest-a-new-probabilistic-data-structure-for-quantile-estimation",
      "title": "t-digest: a new probabilistic data structure for quantile estimation",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Redis introduces t-digest, an advanced probabilistic data structure that efficiently estimates quantiles in large datasets or continuous data streams. This is particularly beneficial for analytics and monitoring applications where quantile calculations are required."
    },
    {
      "id": "retrieve-aggregation-results-for-ongoing-time-series-buckets",
      "title": "Retrieve aggregation results for ongoing time series buckets",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "A new feature allows users to retrieve the latest, still-open time series buckets during compaction."
    },
    {
      "id": "time-weighted-average-aggregator-for-time-series",
      "title": "Time-weighted average aggregator for time series",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Redis now includes a time-weighted average aggregator, improving accuracy in average-over-time calculations. This feature is especially valuable for time series data with irregular sampling intervals."
    },
    {
      "id": "gap-filling-for-time-series-data",
      "title": "Gap-filling for time series data",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "To improve time series analytics, Redis introduces gap-filling capabilities. This feature allows interpolation of missing values or repetition of the last known value for empty time buckets, ensuring continuity in time series analysis."
    },
    {
      "id": "improvements",
      "title": "Improvements",
      "role": "content",
      "text": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "existing-data-structures",
      "title": "Existing data structures",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Redis 6.2 introduces over 25 new commands, fulfilling long-standing community requests. Notably:\n\n- The long-awaited `ZUNION` and `ZINTER` commands now allow direct retrieval of results, unlike `ZUNIONSTORE` and `ZINTERSTORE`, which store results in a key.\n- Redis streams enhancements include:\n  - Support for exclusive range queries, providing finer control over data retrieval.\n  - The ability to filter pending messages based on idle time, improving message management.\n  - A new mechanism to automatically claim pending messages from a stream consumer group, transferring ownership of messages that have exceeded their idle timeout to a new consumer without requiring manual acknowledgment."
    },
    {
      "id": "component-versions",
      "title": "Component versions",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "The Redis version 6.2 is built from the following component versions:\n\n- [Redis 6.2](https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/6.2/00-RELEASENOTES)\n- [Search 2.6](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisearch/redisearch-2.6-release-notes/)\n- [JSON 2.4](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisjson/redisjson-2.4-release-notes/)\n- [Time series 1.8](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redistimeseries/redistimeseries-1.8-release-notes/)\n- [Bloom 2.4](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisbloom/redisbloom-2.4-release-notes/)\n- [Graph 2.10](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisgraph/redisgraph-2.10-release-notes/)"
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}