Valkey is an advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data
structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and
sorted sets.
You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string;
incrementing the value in a hash; pushing to a list; computing set
intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest
ranking in a sorted set.
In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Valkey works with an
in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either
by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending
each command to a log.
Valkey also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave replication, with very
fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection on net split
and so forth.
Other features include Transactions, Pub/Sub, Lua scripting, Keys with a
limited time-to-live, and configuration settings to make Valkey behave like
a cache.
You can use Valkey from most programming languages also.
See https://valkey.io/topics/
Update Information:
Version 9.0.4 Security fixes (CVE-2026-23479) Use-After-Free in unblock client flow (CVE-2026-25243) Invalid Memory Access in RESTORE command (CVE-2026-23631) Use-after-free when full sync occurs during a yielding Lua/function execution
* Wed May 6 2026 Remi Collet
[ 1 ] Bug #2477968 - CVE-2026-23479 valkey: use-after-free in unblock client flow may allow remote code execution [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477968
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-3e31dafe5c' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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