Valkey release 8.1.0-rc2 (#1862)

Signed-off-by: Ran Shidlansik <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Madelyn Olson <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Söderqvist <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

00-RELEASENOTES

@@ -9,6 +9,50 @@ CRITICAL: There is a critical bug affecting MOST USERS. Upgrade ASAP.
 SECURITY: There are security fixes in the release.
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+================================================================================
+Valkey 8.1.0 RC2  -  Released Thu 20 March 2025
+================================================================================
+Upgrade urgency LOW: This is the second release candidate of Valkey 8.1, with several bug fixes, 
+control on manual-failover timeout and expended module API to reduce module executed commands overhead.
+
+Performance/Efficiency Improvements - Core
+==========================================
+* Optimize bitcount command by using x86 SIMD instructions (#1741)
+* Embed hash value in hash data type entries to reduce memory footprint (#1579)
+
+Cluster modifications
+====================
+* Add cluster-manual-failover-timeout configuration to control the timeout for manual failover (#1690)
+* Improve error message reporting when invalid port is provided for cluster meet command. (#1686)
+* broadcast epoch ASAP when configEpoch changed (#1813)
+
+Module Improvements
+===================
+* Add new module API flag to bypass command validation in order to reduce processing overhead (#1357)
+
+Behavior Changes
+================
+* Enable TCP_NODELAY for engine initiated cluster and replication connections (#1763)
+
+Bug Fixes
+=========
+* Fix `ACL LOAD` crash on a connected replica node (#1842)
+* Fix bug where no tracking-redir-broken is issued when the redirect client is in the process of getting closed. (#1823)
+* Fix replica sometimes disconnecting when replication is using TLS. (#1737)
+* Fix file descriptor leak when aborting dual channel replication due to error (#1721)
+* Fix rax crash when using keys larger than 512MB (#1722)
+* Fix RANDOMKEY command leading to infinite loop during when all CLIENT are PAUSED and all keys are with expiry (#1850)
+* Removing unicode optimization in Lua cjson library to avoid OOM when very large strings are used. (#1785)
+* Fix update large-reply in COMMANDLOG when reply is deferred (#1760)
+* Avoid setting TCP/TLS specific options for UNIX Domain Socket connections (#1706)
+* Fix a bug in the valkey-cli which would incorrectly render commands with text output in multi/exec (#1782)
+
+
+Build and Packaging changes
+=================================
+* Check both arm64 and aarch64 for ARM based system architecture during CMake builds (#1829)
+* Cleanup lua object files on make distclean (#1812)
+* Fixed build error with CMake when using clang v19 (#1806)
 
 ================================================================================
 Valkey 8.1.0 RC1  -  Released Thu 11 Feb 2025
@@ -95,7 +139,7 @@ Cluster improvements
 * Make replica `CLUSTER RESET` flush async based on `lazyfree-lazy-user-flush` (#1190)
 * Trigger the election as soon as possible when doing a forced manual failover (#1067)
 * Make manual failover reset the on-going election to promote failover (#1274)
-* Brocast a PONG to all node in cluster when role changed (#1295)
+* Broadcast a PONG to all node in cluster when role changed (#1295)
 * Manual failover vote is not limited by two times the node timeout (#1305)
 * Automatic failover vote is not limited by two times the node timeout (#1356)
 
@@ -129,14 +173,11 @@ Bug Fixes
 We appreciate the efforts of all who contributed code to this release!
 
 
-Alan Scherger (flyinprogrammer), Amit Nagler (naglera), Basel Naamna (xbasel), Ben Totten (bentotten), Binbin (enjoy-binbin),
-Caiyi Wu (Codebells), Danish Mehmood (danish-mehmood), Eran Ifrah (eifrah-aws), Guillaume Koenig (knggk), gmbnomis, Harkrishn Patro (hpatro), Jacob Murphy (murphyjacob4), 
-Jim Brunner (JimB123), Josef Šimánek (simi), Jungwoo Song (bluayer), Karthick Ariyaratnam (karthyuom), Karthik Subbarao (KarthikSubbarao), kronwerk, Lipeng Zhu (lipzhu), 
-Madelyn Olson (madolson), Masahiro Ide (imasahiro), Melroy van den Berg (melroy89), Mikhail Koviazin (mkmkme), Nadav Gigi (NadavGigi), Nadav Levanoni (nadav-levanoni), 
-Nikhil Manglore (Nikhil-Manglore), Parth Patel (parthpatel), Pierre (pieturin), Ping Xie (PingXie), Qu Chen (QuChen88), Rain Valentine (SoftlyRaining), Ray Cao (RayaCoo), 
-Ran Shidlansik (ranshid), Ricardo Dias (rjd15372), Romain Geissler (Romain-Geissler-1A), Roman Gershman (romange), Roshan Khatri (roshkhatri), Rueian (rueian), 
-Sarthak Aggarwal (sarthakaggarwal97), Seungmin Lee (sungming2), Shai Zarka (zarkash-aws), Shivshankar (Shivshankar-Reddy), Sinkevich Artem (ArtSin), Stav Ben-Tov (stav-bentov), 
-Stefan Mueller (muelstefamzn), secwall, Tal Shachar (talxsha), Thalia Archibald (thaliaarchi), Uri Yagelnik (uriyage), Vadym Khoptynets (poiuj),
-Viktor Söderqvist (zuiderkwast), Viktor Szépe (szepeviktor), Vu Diep (vudiep411), Wen Hui (hwware), Yanqi Lv (lyq2333), Yury Fridlyand (Yury-Fridlyand), Zvi Schneider (zvi-code),
-bodong.ybd (yangbodong22011), chx9 (chx9), otheng (otheng03), skyfirelee (artikell), xingbowang (xingbowang), Xuyang WANG (Nugine), zhaozhao.zz (soloestoy), zhenwei pi (pizhenwei),
-zixuan zhao (azuredream), 烈香 (hengyoush), 风去幽墨 (fengquyoumo)
+Alan Scherger (flyinprogrammer), Amit Nagler (naglera), Anastasia Alexandrova (nastena1606), Basel Naamna (xbasel), Ben Totten (bentotten), Benson-li (li-benson), 
+Binbin (enjoy-binbin), Bogdan Petre (bogdanp05), chzhoo, Caiyi Wu (Codebells), Danish Mehmood (danish-mehmood), Eran Ifrah (eifrah-aws), Guillaume Koenig (knggk), 
+Harkrishn Patro (hpatro), Jacob Murphy (murphyjacob4), Jim Brunner (JimB123), Josef Šimánek (simi), Jungwoo Song (bluayer), Karthick Ariyaratnam (karthyuom), 
+Karthik Subbarao (KarthikSubbarao), kronwerk, Lipeng Zhu (lipzhu), Madelyn Olson (madolson), Marek Zoremba (zori-janea), Masahiro Ide (imasahiro), Meinhard Zhou (MeinhardZhou), Melroy van den Berg (melroy89), Mikhail Koviazin (mkmkme), Nadav Gigi (NadavGigi), Nadav Levanoni (nadav-levanoni), Nikhil Manglore (Nikhil-Manglore), Parth Patel (parthpatel), Pierre (pieturin), Ping Xie (PingXie), Qu Chen (QuChen88), Rain Valentine (SoftlyRaining), Ray Cao (RayaCoo), Ran Shidlansik (ranshid), Ray Cao (RayaCoo), Ricardo Dias (rjd15372), Romain Geissler (Romain-Geissler-1A), Roman Gershman (romange), Roshan Khatri (roshkhatri), Rueian (rueian), Sarthak Aggarwal (sarthakaggarwal97), Seungmin Lee (sungming2), 
+Shai Zarka (zarkash-aws), Shivshankar (Shivshankar-Reddy), Simon Baatz (gmbnomis), Sinkevich Artem (ArtSin), Stav Ben-Tov (stav-bentov), Stefan Mueller (muelstefamzn), secwall, 
+Tal Shachar (talxsha), Thalia Archibald (thaliaarchi), Uri Yagelnik (uriyage), Vadym Khoptynets (poiuj), Viktor Söderqvist (zuiderkwast), Viktor Szépe (szepeviktor), VoletiRam, 
+Vu Diep (vudiep411), Wen Hui (hwware), Yanqi Lv (lyq2333), Yury Fridlyand (Yury-Fridlyand), Zvi Schneider (zvi-code), bodong.ybd (yangbodong22011), chx9 (chx9), otheng (otheng03), skyfirelee (artikell), Shawn Wang (xingbowang), Xuyang WANG (Nugine), zhaozhao.zz (soloestoy), zhenwei pi (pizhenwei), zixuan zhao (azuredream), 烈香 (hengyoush), 
+风去幽墨 (fengquyoumo)

src/version.h

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * In unstable branch the status is always "dev".
  * During release process the status will be set to rc1,rc2...rcN.
  * When the version is released the status will be "ga". */
-#define VALKEY_RELEASE_STAGE "rc1"
+#define VALKEY_RELEASE_STAGE "rc2"
 
 /* Redis OSS compatibility version, should never
  * exceed 7.2.x. */