{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "id": "operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisbloom/redisbloom-2.6-release-notes",
  "title": "RedisBloom 2.6 release notes",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/stack-with-enterprise/release-notes/redisbloom/redisbloom-2.6-release-notes/",
  "summary": "RESP3 support. Bug fixes.",
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "stack"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-09-21T16:36:33+01:00",
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "6c441209f03859e92ac21f67337c0c60070d4aa5e9e7af09e6d80689d581cf56",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "requirements",
      "title": "Requirements",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "RedisBloom v2.6.18 requires:\n\n- Minimum Redis compatibility version (database): 7.2\n- Minimum Redis Enterprise Software version (cluster): 7.2.4"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2618-april-2025",
      "title": "v2.6.18 (April 2025)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `LOW`: No need to upgrade unless there are new features you want to use.\n\nDetails:\n\nImprovements:\n- [#865](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/865) Added support for Azure Linux 3 (MOD-9171)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2617-february-2025",
      "title": "v2.6.17 (February 2025)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `MODERATE`: Program an upgrade of the server, but it's not urgent.\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n  - [#828](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/828) `CMS.INCRBY` does not notify `WATCH`ers or client-side caching (MOD-8193)\n  - [#827](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/827) Top-K - suboptimal results after RDB load due to missing initialization (MOD-8194)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2616-january-2025",
      "title": "v2.6.16 (January 2025)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `SECURITY`: There are security fixes in the release.\n\nDetails:\n\n- **Security and privacy:**\n  - [#844](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/844) (CVE-2024-53993) CMS: potential out-of-bounds write (MOD-6970)\n\n- Bug fixes:\n  - [#844](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/844) `CMS.MERGE` crashes or hangs on negative number of keys (MOD-6964)\n\n- Improvements:\n  - [#830](https://github.com/redisbloom/redisbloom/pull/830) Added support for Ubuntu 22 and macOS 13 and 14"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2613-july-2024",
      "title": "v2.6.13 (July 2024)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6\n\nUpdate urgency: `MODERATE`: Program an upgrade of the server, but it's not urgent.\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n\n  - [#720](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/720) `BF` crashes on high error rate (MOD-6268)\n  - [#773](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/773) `CMS.MERGE`: reply with an error on overflow and underflow (MOD-6962)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2612-march-2024",
      "title": "v2.6.12 (March 2024)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `MODERATE`: Program an upgrade of the server, but it's not urgent.\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n\n  - [#753](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/issues/753) Potential crash on `CMS.MERGE` when using invalid arguments"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2611-january-2024",
      "title": "v2.6.11 (January 2024)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `HIGH`: There is a critical bug that may affect a subset of users. Upgrade!\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n\n  - [#727](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/727) Additional fixes for potential crash on `CF.LOADCHUNK` (MOD-6344)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v2610-january-2024",
      "title": "v2.6.10 (January 2024)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `HIGH`: There is a critical bug that may affect a subset of users. Upgrade!\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n\n  - [#735](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/735) Potential crash on `CF.RESERVE` (MOD-6343)\n  - [#727](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/727) Potential crash on `CF.LOADCHUNK` (MOD-6344)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v269-december-2023",
      "title": "v2.6.9 (December 2023)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `LOW`: No need to upgrade unless there are new features you want to use.\n\nDetails:\n\n- Bug fixes:\n\n  - [#707](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/707) Top-K: `TOPK.ADD` and `TOPK.QUERY` crash when an item name is an empty string (RED-114676)"
    },
    {
      "id": "v268-october-2023",
      "title": "v2.6.8 (October 2023)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is a maintenance release for RedisBloom 2.6.\n\nUpdate urgency: `LOW`: No need to upgrade unless there are new features you want to use.\n\nDetails:\n\n- Improvements:\n\n  - [#684](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/684), [#685](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/685) Added support for CBL-Mariner 2\n  - [#677](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/677), [#678](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/678) Added support for Rocky Linux 9 and RHEL9"
    },
    {
      "id": "v26-ga-v263-july-2023",
      "title": "v2.6 GA (v2.6.3) (July 2023)",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "This is the General Availability release of RedisBloom 2.6."
    },
    {
      "id": "headlines",
      "title": "Headlines",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "RedisBloom 2.6 introduces support for RESP3 and bug fixes."
    },
    {
      "id": "details",
      "title": "Details",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "Improvements: \n\n- [#664](https://github.com/RedisBloom/RedisBloom/pull/664) `TOPK.ADD`, `TOPK.INCRBY`, and `TOPK.LIST` reply with blob string instead of simple string.\n\n> [!NOTE]\n> - The version inside Redis will be 2.6.3 in semantic versioning. Since the version of a module in Redis is numeric, we could not add a GA flag.\n>\n> - Minimal Redis version: 7.2"
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}
