Lifecycle policy of Tair

Updated at: 2025-02-13 03:04

This topic describes the lifecycle policy of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) to help you understand the changes that occur during different phases of the Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) lifecycle, the potential business impacts, and the overall evolution plan of the service. This topic provides guidance for you to plan for future updates or upgrades to mitigate additional risks.

Background information

As the Redis open source community continues to evolve, Redis releases new versions that offer you more features and benefits, such as improved performance, enhanced security, and additional functionalities. Meanwhile, the Redis open source community has gradually reduced support and maintenance for earlier versions of Redis. The Redis community usually maintains only the current major version and the previous major version. If you continue to use an earlier version of Redis, you may encounter several challenges and potentially expose your system to security and stability risks. To protect your interests, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Redis in a timely manner. We are also committed to providing high-quality enterprise-level services to continuously enhance the efficiency and reliability of Redis.

Lifecycle status and limits of Tair

For different lifecycle phases of the service or its features, limits exist regarding purchase, usage, and service support.

Lifecycle phase

Support services

Limits

Suggestions

Lifecycle phase

Support services

Limits

Suggestions

General Availability

(GA)

  • Normal service operation

  • Renewal

  • Configuration change and scaling

  • Unsubscription

  • Iterative upgrade

  • Security patches

  • Bug fixes

  • After-sales service

None

None

End of Marketing

(EOM)

  • Normal service operation

  • Renewal (subject to the condition that the renewal duration does not exceed the EOFS date)

  • Configuration change and scaling

  • Unsubscription

  • Security patches

  • Bug fixes

  • After-sales service

  • Service purchase is not allowed.

  • Iterative feature upgrade is not allowed.

Promptly upgrade your Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) instance to a later major version that is in general availability. For more information, see Upgrade the major version.

End of Full Support

(EOFS)

  • Normal service operation before expiration

  • Unsubscription

  • Service purchase is not allowed.

  • Iterative feature upgrade is not allowed.

  • Renewal is not allowed.

  • Configuration change and scaling are not allowed.

  • After-sales service is unavailable.

  • New patch releases and bug fixes are no longer provided.

Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) no longer fixes security vulnerabilities and defects or offers after-sales support for all instances in this phase. Users are provided with a unified set of migration suggestions. Upgrade the major version at the earliest opportunity. For more information, see Upgrade the major version.

End of Service

(EOS)

Discontinuation of services and support

  • The service or its features cannot be accessed.

  • Service purchase is not allowed.

  • Iterative feature upgrade is not allowed.

  • Renewal is not allowed.

  • Configuration change and scaling are not allowed.

  • Unsubscription is not allowed.

  • After-sales service is unavailable.

  • New patch releases and bug fixes are no longer provided.

  • The service console cannot be accessed.

  • Instance resources are released.

None

Current lifecycle of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible)

The following table describes the lifecycle of different major versions of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible). Plan your upgrade cadence based on the version iteration schedule.

Note

The timelines for each of the following phases may be adjusted due to product planning, but they will not be moved up.

Major version

Lifecycle phase

EOM date

EOFS date

EOS date

Recommend version

Major version

Lifecycle phase

EOM date

EOFS date

EOS date

Recommend version

Redis 2.8

EOM

November 13, 2020

February 4, 2025

August 4, 2025

Redis 5.0 or later

Redis 4.0

GA

December 31, 2024

July 31, 2025

December 31, 2025

Redis 5.0

GA

December 31, 2025

N/A

Redis 6.0 or later

Redis 6.0

GA

N/A

Redis 7.0

GA

Service commitments and suggestions

  • At least three months before a critical lifecycle milestone in the service lifecycle is reached, we will notify the contacts configured within your Alibaba Cloud account by using notification channels such as announcements, internal messages, and emails.

  • Compatibility

    • Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) does not guarantee compatibility between major versions. However, utmost efforts will be made to maintain compatibility in terms of syntax, interfaces, and functionalities across different major versions. Any potential compatibility issues that may arise will be communicated by means of documentation or after-sales service. For more information, see New features and compatibility changes of major versions of Redis Open-Source Edition.

    • Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) guarantees compatibility between minor versions within the same major version in terms of syntax, interfaces, and functionalities. Therefore, we recommend that you update your instance to the latest minor version of the current major version based on the assurance of compatibility.

  • Bugs

    • If you are not using the latest version, due to the service commitment to compatibility, we recommend that you upgrade or update the major or minor version to address any identified bugs. For example, if you are using the 6.0.1.22 minor version of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) 6.0 and the latest minor version of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible) 6.0 is 6.0.1.24, we recommend that you update the minor version to 6.0.1.24 to benefit from bug fixes and stability improvements. For information about the latest minor version, see Release notes for minor versions of Redis Open-Source Edition.

References

  • On this page (1, T)
  • Background information
  • Lifecycle status and limits of Tair
  • Current lifecycle of Tair (Redis OSS-compatible)
  • Service commitments and suggestions
  • References
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