# Redis 6 RC1 is out today

DevFeed: [Redis 6 RC1 is out today](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/redis-6-rc1-is-out-today-20622.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://antirez.com/news/131>)

Published: 2019-12-19T16:27:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Antirez](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/antirez.md>)

Topics: [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encryption.md>), [SSL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssl.md>)

Tags: [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [encryption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encryption.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>)

## AI overview

Redis 6 reached release candidate status. The article highlights its ACL and SSL support, continued ability to run without configuration, and broad contributor participation.

## Source excerpt

So it happened again, a new Redis version reached the release candidate status, and in a few months it will hit the shelves of most supermarkets. I guess this is the most "enterprise" Redis version to date, and it's funny since I took quite some time in order to understand what "enterprise" ever meant. I think it's word I genuinely dislike, yet it has some meaning. Redis is now everywhere, and it is still considerably able to "scale down": you can still download it, compile it in 30 seconds, and run it without any configuration to start hacking. But being everywhere also means being in environments where things like encryption and ACLs are a must, so Redis, inevitably, and more than thanks to me, I would say, in spite of my extreme drive for simplicity, adapted. But what's interesting is that, even additions may be done in very opinionated ways. Redis ACLs hardly resemble something you saw in other systems, and SSL support was written in a few iterations in order to finally pick the idea that was the most sounding, from the point of view of letting the core as clean as possible. I'm quite happy with the result. Redis 6 does not bring just ACLs and SSL, it is the largest release of Redis ever as far as I can tell, and the one where the biggest amount of people participated. So, let's start with credits. Who made Redis 6? This is the list of contributors by commits (it's a terrible metric, but the one I can easily generate), having at least two commits, and excluding merge commits. Also note that the number of commits in my case may be inflated a lot by the fact that I fix many small stuff here and there constantly. 685 antirez 81 zhaozhao.zz 76 Oran Agra 51 artix 28 Madelyn Olson 27 Yossi Gottlieb 15 David Carlier 14 Guy Benoish 14 Guy Korland 13 Itamar Haber 9 Angus Pearson 8 WuYunlong 8 yongman 7 vattezhang 7 Chris Lamb 5 Dvir Volk 5 meir@redislabs.com 5 chendianqiang 5 John Sully 4 dejun.xdj 4 Daniel Dai 4 Johannes Truschnigg 4 swilly22 3 Bruce Merry 3 filipecosta