--- title: Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey | daily.dev description: Reflecting on Valkey's first full year since forking from Redis in 2024, covering the 7.2 and 8.0 releases, growing packaging and cloud availability, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey | daily.dev og:description: Reflecting on Valkey's first full year since forking from Redis in 2024, covering the 7.2 and 8.0 releases, growing packaging and cloud availability, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CrSIWRJ4Q.png og:image:alt: Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey **[Valkey](https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Reflecting on Valkey's first full year since forking from Redis in 2024, covering the 7.2 and 8.0 releases, growing packaging and cloud availability, and real-world migration stories from companies like Verizon, Zerodha, Fedora, and AlmaLinux who report seamless drop-in replacements with performance gains. The piece looks ahead to further performance and efficiency improvements in 2025. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What performance improvements did Valkey 8.0 introduce over earlier versions? Valkey 8.0 brought higher performance through multi-threaded I/O, improved memory efficiency from a rewritten main dictionary, more granular visibility into performance and resource usage, and enhanced reliability in replication and slot migration. This built on Valkey 7.2, which mainly introduced the fork's rebranding while keeping the prior feature set and performance intact. _Teams weighing a Redis to Valkey upgrade can track version-by-version changes like these on daily.dev._ ### Is migrating from Redis to Valkey difficult in terms of application code changes? Migrating from Redis to Valkey typically requires no code, library, or command changes, since Valkey is designed as a drop-in replacement. AlmaLinux's infrastructure lead described it as seamless, saying you can remove Redis, add Valkey, and keep running without changing anything, while a user on AWS ElastiCache Serverless switched by updating infrastructure-as-code configuration alone. _Developers planning a Redis to Valkey switch can follow real migration experiences like this on daily.dev._ ### Which Linux distributions and cloud providers support Valkey? Valkey is available directly from package managers in most Linux distributions, with Fedora 41 going further by obsoleting Redis in favor of Valkey entirely, automatically migrating users who had Redis installed. It is also offered as a managed service on Aiven, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, NetApp Instaclustr, and UpCloud, among others. _Anyone choosing where to run Valkey can compare distro and cloud support on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second](https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-9-0-released-with-ability-to-achieve-one-billion-requests-second-4b2f2pigi) · Phoronix · 48 upvotes · 1 comments - [Valkey just had a 17x year. Its lead maintainer still doesn’t want Redis to die.](https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-just-had-a-17x-year-its-lead-maintainer-still-doesn-t-want-redis-to-die--hymzgle9p) · The New Stack · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [\[Video Podcast\] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson](https://daily.dev/posts/video-podcast-improving-valkey-with-madelyn-olson-bjpwcn9zl) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security](https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-9-1-delivers-more-performance-enhanced-security-9lzgcvzst) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Redis by proxy: Percona targets the last major hurdle to Valkey adoption](https://daily.dev/posts/redis-by-proxy-percona-targets-the-last-major-hurdle-to-valkey-adoption-2moidtflx) · The New Stack · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#redis](https://daily.dev/tags/redis), [#valkey](https://daily.dev/tags/valkey) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:23:14.545Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:52:25.366Z","description":"Reflecting on Valkey's first full year since forking from Redis in 2024, covering the 7.2 and 8.0 releases, growing packaging and cloud availability, and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--HRgLpUt6--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2003","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Valkey","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Valkey","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--XXPzEmD8--/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487496/logos/valkey-blog?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,linux,redis,valkey","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Valkey","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Valkey · 2024: The Year of Valkey"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-2024-the-year-of-valkey-crsiwrj4q#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What performance improvements did Valkey 8.0 introduce over earlier versions?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Valkey 8.0 brought higher performance through multi-threaded I/O, improved memory efficiency from a rewritten main dictionary, more granular visibility into performance and resource usage, and enhanced reliability in replication and slot migration. 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