Valkey release 8.1.0-ga (#1903)

Signed-off-by: Ran Shidlansik <[email protected]>

Author: ranshid

00-RELEASENOTES

@@ -9,6 +9,22 @@ CRITICAL: There is a critical bug affecting MOST USERS. Upgrade ASAP.
 SECURITY: There are security fixes in the release.
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+================================================================================
+Valkey 8.1.0 GA  -  Released Mon 31 March 2025
+================================================================================
+Upgrade urgency LOW: This is the first release of Valkey 8.1, 
+a minor version update designed to further enhance performance, reliability, observability and usability
+over Valkey 8.0 for all Valkey installations. This release is fully compatible with all previous Valkey releases 
+as well as Redis OSS 7.2.4.
+
+Behavior Changes
+================
+* Hide input buffer data from being logged on protocol error when hide-user-data-from-log is enabled (#1889)
+
+Bug fixes
+=========
+* Fix a bug in VM_GetCurrentUserName which leads to engine crash when no valid username provided (#1885)
+
 ================================================================================
 Valkey 8.1.0 RC2  -  Released Thu 20 March 2025
 ================================================================================
@@ -175,9 +191,9 @@ We appreciate the efforts of all who contributed code to this release!
 
 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), 
+Harkrishn Patro (hpatro), Jacob Murphy (murphyjacob4), jeon1226, 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), 
+Tal Shachar (talxsha), Thalia Archibald (thaliaarchi), Uri Yagelnik (uriyage), Vadym Khoptynets (poiuj), Vanessa Tang (YueTang-Vanessa), Viktor Söderqvist (zuiderkwast), Viktor Szépe (szepeviktor), VoletiRam, 
+Vu Diep (vudiep411), Wen Hui (hwware), WelongZuo, 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 "rc2"
+#define VALKEY_RELEASE_STAGE "ga"
 
 /* Redis OSS compatibility version, should never
  * exceed 7.2.x. */