Merge pull request #128 from stockholmux/valkey-8-blog

Valkey 8 GA blog

content/blog/2024-09-16-valkey-8-ga.md

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+title=  "Generally Available: Valkey 8.0.0"
+description = "Today marks a milestone for the Valkey project: the first major release."
+date= 2024-09-16 01:01:01
+authors= ["kyledvs"]
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+The first ever release of Valkey, 7.2.5, became generally available more than 5 months ago.
+While the initial release was a milestone, it focused on compatibility and license continuity; bringing no new features to the table.
+Today marks a different milestone for the Valkey project: the first major release.
+Valkey 8.0.0 continues the traditions of the seven major versions of Redis that precede it by bringing improvements to speed and efficiency alongside new features.
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+Key properties of the Valkey project are transparency and collaboration.
+As a consequence of Valkey 8.0.0 being developed entirely in the open, the team has already written about both the big and small features of the release.
+The best overview is the RC1 blog which breaks down all the changes and features in the release into a few sections: [performance](/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/#performance), [reliability](/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/#reliability), [replication](/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/#replication), [observability](https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/#observability), and [efficiency](/blog/valkey-8-0-0-rc1/#efficiency).
+Additionally, there are deep dives on the [speed](/blog/unlock-one-million-rps/) (with a [follow up](/blog/unlock-one-million-rps-part2/)) and [efficiency](/blog/valkey-memory-efficiency-8-0/) improvements in Valkey 8.0.0.
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+While this is a major version, Valkey takes command set compatibility seriously: Valkey 8.0.0 makes no backwards incompatible changes to the existing command syntax or their responses.
+Your existing tools and custom software will be able to immediately take advantage of Valkey 8.0.0.
+Since Valkey 8.0.0 does make some small changes to previously undefined behaviors, it's wise to [read the release notes](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/8.0.0/00-RELEASENOTES).
+Additionally, because this version makes changes in how the software uses threading, you may want to re-evaluate your cluster’s infrastructure to achieve the highest performance.
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+Valkey 8.0.0 has gone through multiple rounds of release candidates, testing, and verification.
+The Technical Steering Committee considers it ready for production usage.
+You can [build from source](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/tree/8.0.0), start [installing the binaries, or deploy the containers](/download/) today.
+Expect package managers to pick up the latest version in the coming days.