I'm starting to use redis for my applications as a cache backend and "shared memory" store.
I've asked the servers maintenance team to install Redis on our CentOS 6.5 production environments. From EPEL, the version is 2.4.10, which we hope will upgrade in the future. Also, on our internal registry, we have a 3.0.7 available. The maintenance team would prefer the EPEL version.
I'm not quite sure of the differences between the versions. I haven't found a document listing major changes from 2.x to 3.0. Are there major features/ performance improvements/bugfixes in 3.0 that I MUST have?
My first guess is that 2.4.10 would be sufficient enough for my needs.
The most significant change from 2.x to 3.0 is that Redis 3.0 introduces Redis Cluster which is a distributed implementation of Redis.
You can also get change list (bug fix, new features and so on) of other versions from 00-RELEASENOTES file of each version: github link: