ReleaseRun Badges for Redis

Why Use Redis Health Badges?

Redis is the backbone of caching, session storage, and real-time messaging for millions of applications, and an unpatched Redis instance is a high-value target. A health badge in your project documentation shows whether your Redis version is still receiving security fixes, giving your team a clear signal without trawling through release notes.

ReleaseRun badges go beyond Shields.io. While Shields.io shows a version number, our badges show security posture: CVE counts, EOL countdowns, and a composite health grade that factors in freshness (35%), security (35%), and support status (30%).

Redis Release History & EOL Timeline

Redis typically maintains the latest two or three stable release branches. Major versions receive active development, while older branches get only critical security patches until they are formally deprecated. Note that since March 2024, Redis has moved to a dual-license model (RSALv2 and SSPLv1), which led to the Valkey community fork.

• Redis 7.4 – released late 2024. Current stable release. Actively maintained with bug fixes and security patches. The first major release under the new license model to gain wide adoption.
• Redis 7.2 – released August 2023. Still receiving security patches as an active maintenance branch. Introduced client-side caching improvements and new stream features.
• Redis 7.0 – released April 2022. Brought Redis Functions, ACL v2, and sharded pub/sub. Approaching end of active maintenance. Critical security fixes may still land, but routine patches have slowed significantly.
• Redis 6.2 – released February 2021. End-of-life. No longer receiving patches of any kind. The ReleaseRun EOL badge turns red automatically for this version.
• Redis 6.0 – released April 2020. Introduced ACLs and SSL/TLS support. End-of-life since early 2024.
• Redis 5.0 – released October 2018. Introduced Streams. Long past end-of-life. Still found in legacy deployments and older Docker images.

Redis versions tend to have long tails in production because upgrading a data store feels riskier than upgrading an application runtime. Health badges help surface the growing risk of staying on an old version.

Badge Customization Examples

ReleaseRun offers four badge types for Redis. Each serves a different monitoring purpose:

• Health badge – composite A-F grade reflecting overall risk. Embed: ![Redis Health](https://img.releaserun.com/badge/health/redis.svg)
• EOL badge – end-of-life countdown or status. Embed: ![Redis EOL](https://img.releaserun.com/badge/eol/redis.svg)
• Version badge – latest stable version number. Embed: ![Redis Version](https://img.releaserun.com/badge/v/redis.svg)
• CVE badge – known vulnerability count. Embed: ![Redis CVE](https://img.releaserun.com/badge/cve/redis.svg)

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Common Use Cases

• Application teams: Add a Redis health badge to your service documentation. Redis is often treated as “set and forget” infrastructure, but CVEs in Redis can expose session data, cached credentials, or message queues. A badge keeps the version visible.
• Platform engineers: Track Redis versions across shared clusters and managed services. When running Redis on AWS ElastiCache, Azure Cache, or GCP Memorystore, the underlying Redis version still matters for security coverage.
• Docker Compose projects: Many projects pin redis:6 or redis:7 in their compose files without tracking patch-level updates. A CVE badge in your README highlights when the base image includes known vulnerabilities.
• Valkey migration planning: If your team is evaluating Valkey as an alternative to Redis under the new license, badges for both help compare support timelines and feature parity during the transition.

Related ReleaseRun Tools

Redis badges are part of a broader toolkit for managing your data infrastructure lifecycle:

• Dependency EOL Scanner – scan your infrastructure manifests and flag any component approaching end-of-life, including Redis, PostgreSQL, and other data stores.
• Tech Stack Health Scorecard – get a holistic health grade across your entire stack, from application runtimes to databases and caches.
• Upgrade Path Planner – plan your migration from Redis 6.2 to 7.4 with compatibility checks and data migration guidance.
• CVE Dashboard – monitor known vulnerabilities across all your tracked products including Redis, Valkey, and related tools.
• Badge Generator – create custom health badges for any product in the ReleaseRun database.
• npm Package Health Checker — check ioredis, node-redis, and other npm packages for known CVEs.

What Makes These Different

Every badge pulls live data from the endoflife.date API and the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Data refreshes every 6 hours. Badges are edge-cached for 5 minutes, fast enough for CI pipelines, infrastructure dashboards, and documentation sites.

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