Valkey fork still shipping two years after Redis license change

After Redis moved to RSALv2 and SSPL in March 2024, the Linux Foundation-backed Valkey fork keeps releasing: Valkey 9.1.3 and updates to four older branches shipped on October 26, 2026. In May 2025 Redis added AGPLv3 as an option in Redis 8 while keeping SSPL.

• Valkey 9.1.3 shipped October 26, 2026, alongside 9.0.7, 8.1.11, 8.0.12 and 7.2.15
• Valkey has 27,528 GitHub stars versus Redis's 77,130
• Redis 8 added AGPLv3 as an option while retaining SSPL
• Valkey 9.1 claims 2.1 million requests per second and up to 20% memory savings