Redis 2.2.3 released

True, the change is really minimal, but will prevent some incompatibility in the future. Btw 2.2.4 already released.

The change is about the return of the "OBJECT encoding" command against a sorted set. Since sorted sets have no special encoding yet (the special internal encoding Redis uses to save space for small lists, sets, ...) 2.2.3 used to return "raw". But since Pieter Noordhuis coded an awesome patch to bring specially encoded sorted sets to us, and a few cool guys are testing it since weeks with no problems, I think that we'll soon get it merged in the 2.2 branch.

When we'll have specially encoded sorted sets OBJECT encoding against a sorted set will return either "skiplist" or "ziplist", so I modified the return value to return just "skiplist" now. So after the merge everything will still be compatible.

A lot of words for a simple change, but semantics is important!

I honestly agree... better to take HN front page space for major releases and other important news about open source software, so that there is more space for all the rest. So thanks for posting this on Hacker News, but probably who is interested in knowing about minor releases is already following me on twitter. Next time I'll try to be more informative writing a blog post that announces the new release with some fresh information about development or about what you can do with the new features (for instance the OBJECT command) so that it is more interesting to have it in the front page for some time.

I totally agree. Redis is great piece of software but lately there are at least a few release notes on the front page daily.

Can we stop it, please?