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-// ATTENTION: This file is no longer used as changes are manage automatically as confirmed in - https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-py/issues/31
-
-    * Update `ResponseT` type hint
-    * Allow to control the minimum SSL version
-    * Add an optional lock_name attribute to LockError.
-    * Fix return types for `get`, `set_path` and `strappend` in JSONCommands
-    * Connection.register_connect_callback() is made public.
-    * Fix async `read_response` to use `disable_decoding`.
-    * Add 'aclose()' methods to async classes, deprecate async close().
-    * Fix #2831, add auto_close_connection_pool=True arg to asyncio.Redis.from_url()
-    * Fix incorrect redis.asyncio.Cluster type hint for `retry_on_error`
-    * Fix dead weakref in sentinel connection causing ReferenceError (#2767)
-    * Fix #2768, Fix KeyError: 'first-entry' in parse_xinfo_stream.
-    * Fix #2749, remove unnecessary __del__ logic to close connections.
-    * Fix #2754, adding a missing argument to SentinelManagedConnection
-    * Fix `xadd` command to accept non-negative `maxlen` including 0
-    * Revert #2104, #2673, add `disconnect_on_error` option to `read_response()` (issues #2506, #2624)
-    * Add `address_remap` parameter to `RedisCluster`
-    * Fix incorrect usage of once flag in async Sentinel
-    * asyncio: Fix memory leak caused by hiredis (#2693)
-    * Allow data to drain from async PythonParser when reading during a disconnect()
-    * Use asyncio.timeout() instead of async_timeout.timeout() for python >= 3.11 (#2602)
-    * Add a Dependabot configuration to auto-update GitHub action versions.
-    * Add test and fix async HiredisParser when reading during a disconnect() (#2349)
-    * Use hiredis-py pack_command if available.
-    * Support `.unlink()` in ClusterPipeline
-    * Simplify synchronous SocketBuffer state management
-    * Fix string cleanse in Redis Graph
-    * Make PythonParser resumable in case of error (#2510)
-    * Add `timeout=None` in `SentinelConnectionManager.read_response`
-    * Documentation fix: password protected socket connection (#2374)
-    * Allow `timeout=None` in `PubSub.get_message()` to wait forever
-    * add `nowait` flag to `asyncio.Connection.disconnect()`
-    * Update README.md links
-    * Fix timezone handling for datetime to unixtime conversions
-    * Fix start_id type for XAUTOCLAIM
-    * Remove verbose logging from cluster.py
-    * Add retry mechanism to async version of Connection
-    * Compare commands case-insensitively in the asyncio command parser
-    * Allow negative `retries` for `Retry` class to retry forever
-    * Add `items` parameter to `hset` signature
-    * Create codeql-analysis.yml (#1988). Thanks @chayim
-    * Add limited support for Lua scripting with RedisCluster
-    * Implement `.lock()` method on RedisCluster
-    * Fix cursor returned by SCAN for RedisCluster & change default target to PRIMARIES
-    * Fix scan_iter for RedisCluster
-    * Remove verbose logging when initializing ClusterPubSub, ClusterPipeline or RedisCluster
-    * Fix broken connection writer lock-up for asyncio (#2065)
-    * Fix auth bug when provided with no username (#2086)
-    * Fix missing ClusterPipeline._lock (#2189)
-    * Added dynaminc_startup_nodes configuration to RedisCluster
-    * Fix reusing the old nodes' connections when cluster topology refresh is being done
-    * Fix RedisCluster to immediately raise AuthenticationError without a retry
-    * ClusterPipeline Doesn't Handle ConnectionError for Dead Hosts (#2225)
-    * Remove compatibility code for old versions of Hiredis, drop Packaging dependency
-    * The `deprecated` library is no longer a dependency
-    * Failover handling improvements for RedisCluster and Async RedisCluster (#2377)
-    * Fixed "cannot pickle '_thread.lock' object" bug (#2354, #2297)
-    * Added CredentialsProvider class to support password rotation
-    * Enable Lock for asyncio cluster mode
-    * Fix Sentinel.execute_command doesn't execute across the entire sentinel cluster bug (#2458)
-    * Added a replacement for the default cluster node in the event of failure (#2463)
-    * Fix for Unhandled exception related to self.host with unix socket (#2496)
-    * Improve error output for master discovery 
-    * Make `ClusterCommandsProtocol` an actual Protocol
-    * Add `sum` to DUPLICATE_POLICY documentation of `TS.CREATE`, `TS.ADD` and `TS.ALTER`
-    * Prevent async ClusterPipeline instances from becoming "false-y" in case of empty command stack (#3061)
-
-* 4.1.3 (Feb 8, 2022)
-  * Fix flushdb and flushall (#1926)
-  * Add redis5 and redis4 dockers (#1871)
-  * Change json.clear test multi to be up to date with redisjson (#1922)
-  * Fixing volume for unstable_cluster docker (#1914)
-  * Update changes file with changes since 4.0.0-beta2 (#1915)
-* 4.1.2 (Jan 27, 2022)
-  * Invalid OCSP certificates should raise ConnectionError on failed validation (#1907)
-  * Added retry mechanism on socket timeouts when connecting to the server (#1895)
-  * LMOVE, BLMOVE return incorrect responses (#1906)
-  * Fixing AttributeError in UnixDomainSocketConnection (#1903)
-  * Fixing TypeError in GraphCommands.explain (#1901)
-  * For tests, increasing wait time for the cluster (#1908)
-  * Increased pubsub's wait_for_messages timeout to prevent flaky tests (#1893)
-  * README code snippets formatted to highlight properly (#1888)
-  * Fix link in the main page (#1897)
-  * Documentation fixes: JSON Example, SSL Connection Examples, RTD version (#1887)
-  * Direct link to readthedocs (#1885)
-* 4.1.1 (Jan 17, 2022)
-  * Add retries to connections in Sentinel Pools (#1879)
-  * OCSP Stapling Support (#1873)
-  * Define incr/decr as aliases of incrby/decrby (#1874)
-  * FT.CREATE - support MAXTEXTFIELDS, TEMPORARY, NOHL, NOFREQS, SKIPINITIALSCAN (#1847)
-  * Timeseries docs fix (#1877)
-  * get_connection: catch OSError too (#1832)
-  * Set keys var otherwise variable not created (#1853)
-  * Clusters should optionally require full slot coverage (#1845)
-  * Triple quote docstrings in client.py PEP 257 (#1876)
-  * syncing requirements (#1870)
-  * Typo and typing in GraphCommands documentation (#1855)
-  * Allowing poetry and redis-py to install together (#1854)
-  * setup.py: Add project_urls for PyPI (#1867)
-  * Support test with redis unstable docker (#1850)
-  * Connection examples (#1835)
-  * Documentation cleanup (#1841)
-* 4.1.0 (Dec 26, 2021)
-  * OCSP stapling support (#1820)
-  * Support for SELECT (#1825)
-  * Support for specifying error types with retry (#1817)
-  * Support for RESET command since Redis 6.2.0 (#1824)
-  * Support CLIENT TRACKING (#1612)
-  * Support WRITE in CLIENT PAUSE (#1549)
-  * JSON set_file and set_path support (#1818)
-  * Allow ssl_ca_path with rediss:// urls (#1814)
-  * Support for password-encrypted SSL private keys (#1782)
-  * Support SYNC and PSYNC (#1741)
-  * Retry on error exception and timeout fixes (#1821)
-  * Fixing read race condition during pubsub (#1737)
-  * Fixing exception in listen (#1823)
-  * Fixed MovedError, and stopped iterating through startup nodes when slots are fully covered (#1819)
-  * Socket not closing after server disconnect (#1797)
-  * Single sourcing the package version (#1791)
-  * Ensure redis_connect_func is set on uds connection (#1794)
-  * SRTALGO - Skip for redis versions greater than 7.0.0 (#1831)
-  * Documentation updates (#1822)
-  * Add CI action to install package from repository commit hash (#1781) (#1790)
-  * Fix link in lmove docstring (#1793)
-  * Disabling JSON.DEBUG tests (#1787)
-  * Migrated targeted nodes to kwargs in Cluster Mode (#1762)
-  * Added support for MONITOR in clusters (#1756)
-  * Adding ROLE Command (#1610)
-  * Integrate RedisBloom support (#1683)
-  * Adding RedisGraph support (#1556)
-  * Allow overriding connection class via keyword arguments (#1752)
-  * Aggregation LOAD * support for RediSearch (#1735)
-  * Adding cluster, bloom, and graph docs (#1779)
-  * Add packaging to setup_requires, and use >= to play nice to setup.py (fixes #1625) (#1780)
-  * Fixing the license link in the readme (#1778)
-  * Removing distutils from tests (#1773)
-  * Fix cluster ACL tests (#1774)
-  * Improved RedisCluster's reinitialize_steps and documentation (#1765)
-  * Added black and isort (#1734)
-  * Link Documents for all module commands (#1711)
-  * Pyupgrade + flynt + f-strings (#1759)
-  * Remove unused aggregation subclasses in RediSearch (#1754)
-  * Adding RedisCluster client to support Redis Cluster Mode (#1660)
-  * Support RediSearch FT.PROFILE command (#1727)
-  * Adding support for non-decodable commands (#1731)
-  * COMMAND GETKEYS support (#1738)
-  * RedisJSON 2.0.4 behaviour support (#1747)
-  * Removing deprecating distutils (PEP 632) (#1730)
-  * Updating PR template (#1745)
-  * Removing duplication of Script class (#1751)
-  * Splitting documentation for read the docs (#1743)
-  * Improve code coverage for aggregation tests (#1713)
-  * Fixing COMMAND GETKEYS tests (#1750)
-  * GitHub release improvements (#1684)
-* 4.0.2 (Nov 22, 2021)
-  * Restoring Sentinel commands to redis client (#1723)
-  * Better removal of hiredis warning (#1726)
-  * Adding links to redis documents in function calls (#1719)
-* 4.0.1 (Nov 17, 2021)
-  * Removing command on initial connections (#1722)
-  * Removing hiredis warning when not installed (#1721)
-* 4.0.0 (Nov 15, 2021)
-  * FT.EXPLAINCLI intentionally raising NotImplementedError
-  * Restoring ZRANGE desc for Redis < 6.2.0 (#1697)
-  * Response parsing occasionally fails to parse floats (#1692)
-  * Re-enabling read-the-docs (#1707)
-  * Call HSET after FT.CREATE to avoid keyspace scan (#1706)
-  * Unit tests fixes for compatibility (#1703)
-  * Improve documentation about Locks (#1701)
-  * Fixes to allow --redis-url to pass through all tests (#1700)
-  * Fix unit tests running against Redis 4.0.0 (#1699)
-  * Search alias test fix (#1695)
-  * Adding RediSearch/RedisJSON tests (#1691)
-  * Updating codecov rules (#1689)
-  * Tests to validate custom JSON decoders (#1681)
-  * Added breaking icon to release drafter (#1702)
-  * Removing dependency on six (#1676)
-  * Re-enable pipeline support for JSON and TimeSeries (#1674)
-  * Export Sentinel, and SSL like other classes (#1671)
-  * Restore zrange functionality for older versions of Redis (#1670)
-  * Fixed garbage collection deadlock (#1578)
-  * Tests to validate built python packages (#1678)
-  * Sleep for flaky search test (#1680)
-  * Test function renames, to match standards (#1679)
-  * Docstring improvements for Redis class (#1675)
-  * Fix georadius tests (#1672)
-  * Improvements to JSON coverage (#1666)
-  * Add python_requires setuptools check for python > 3.6 (#1656)
-  * SMISMEMBER support (#1667)
-  * Exposing the module version in loaded_modules (#1648)
-  * RedisTimeSeries support (#1652)
-  * Support for json multipath ($) (#1663)
-  * Added boolean parsing to PEXPIRE and PEXPIREAT (#1665)
-  * Add python_requires setuptools check for python > 3.6 (#1656)
-  * Adding vulture for static analysis (#1655)
-  * Starting to clean the docs (#1657)
-  * Update README.md (#1654)
-  * Adding description format for package (#1651)
-  * Publish to pypi as releases are generated with the release drafter (#1647)
-  * Restore actions to prs (#1653)
-  * Fixing the package to include commands (#1649)
-  * Re-enabling codecov as part of CI process (#1646)
-  * Adding support for redisearch (#1640) Thanks @chayim
-  * redisjson support (#1636) Thanks @chayim
-  * Sentinel: Add SentinelManagedSSLConnection (#1419) Thanks @AbdealiJK
-  * Enable floating parameters in SET (ex and px) (#1635) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
-  * Add warning when hiredis not installed. Recommend installation. (#1621) Thanks @adiamzn
-  * Raising NotImplementedError for SCRIPT DEBUG and DEBUG SEGFAULT (#1624) Thanks @chayim
-  * CLIENT REDIR command support (#1623) Thanks @chayim
-  * REPLICAOF command implementation (#1622) Thanks @chayim
-  * Add support to NX XX and CH to GEOADD (#1605) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
-  * Add support to ZRANGE and ZRANGESTORE parameters (#1603) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
-  * Pre 6.2 redis should default to None for script flush (#1641) Thanks @chayim
-  * Add FULL option to XINFO SUMMARY (#1638) Thanks @agusdmb
-  * Geosearch test should use any=True (#1594) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Removing packaging dependency (#1626) Thanks @chayim
-  * Fix client_kill_filter docs for skimpy (#1596) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Normalize minid and maxlen docs (#1593) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Update docs for multiple usernames for ACL DELUSER (#1595) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Fix grammar of get param in set command (#1588) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Fix docs for client_kill_filter (#1584) Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang
-  * Convert README & CONTRIBUTING from rst to md (#1633) Thanks @davidylee
-  * Test BYLEX param in zrangestore (#1634) Thanks @AvitalFineRedis
-  * Tox integrations with invoke and docker (#1632) Thanks @chayim
-  * Adding the release drafter to help simplify release notes (#1618). Thanks @chayim
-  * BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: Removed support for end of life Python 2.7. #1318
-  * BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE: All values within Redis URLs are unquoted via
-      urllib.parse.unquote. Prior versions of redis-py supported this by
-      specifying the ``decode_components`` flag to the ``from_url`` functions.
-      This is now done by default and cannot be disabled. #589
-  * POTENTIALLY INCOMPATIBLE: Redis commands were moved into a mixin
-      (see commands.py). Anyone importing ``redis.client`` to access commands
-      directly should import ``redis.commands``. #1534, #1550
-  * Removed technical debt on REDIS_6_VERSION placeholder. Thanks @chayim #1582.
-  * Various docus fixes. Thanks @Andrew-Chen-Wang #1585, #1586.
-  * Support for LOLWUT command, available since Redis 5.0.0.
-      Thanks @brainix #1568.
-  * Added support for CLIENT REPLY, available in Redis 3.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim #1581.
-  * Support for Auto-reconnect PubSub on get_message. Thanks @luhn #1574.
-  * Fix RST syntax error in README/ Thanks @JanCBrammer #1451.
-  * IDLETIME and FREQ support for RESTORE. Thanks @chayim #1580.
-  * Supporting args with MODULE LOAD. Thanks @chayim #1579.
-  * Updating RedisLabs with Redis. Thanks @gkorland #1575.
-  * Added support for ASYNC to SCRIPT FLUSH available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1567
-  * Added CLIENT LIST fix to support multiple client ids available in
-      Redis 2.8.12. Thanks @chayim #1563.
-  * Added DISCARD support for pipelines available in Redis 2.0.0.
-      Thanks @chayim #1565.
-  * Added ACL DELUSER support for deleting lists of users available in
-      Redis 6.2.0. Thanks @chayim. #1562
-  * Added CLIENT TRACKINFO support available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1560
-  * Added GEOSEARCH and GEOSEARCHSTORE support available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFine Redis. #1526
-  * Added LPUSHX support for lists available in Redis 4.0.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1559
-  * Added support for QUIT available in Redis 1.0.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1558
-  * Added support for COMMAND COUNT available in Redis 2.8.13.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1554.
-  * Added CREATECONSUMER support for XGROUP available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1553
-  * Including slowly complexity in INFO if available.
-      Thanks @ian28223 #1489.
-  * Added support for STRALGO available in Redis 6.0.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1528
-  * Addes support for ZMSCORE available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @2014BDuck and @jiekun.zhu. #1437
-  * Support MINID and LIMIT on XADD available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1548
-  * Added sentinel commands FLUSHCONFIG, CKQUORUM, FAILOVER, and RESET
-      available in Redis 2.8.12.
-      Thanks @otherpirate. #834
-  * Migrated Version instead of StrictVersion for Python 3.10.
-      Thanks @tirkarthi. #1552
-  * Added retry mechanism with backoff. Thanks @nbraun-amazon. #1494
-  * Migrated commands to a mixin. Thanks @chayim. #1534
-  * Added support for ZUNION, available in Redis 6.2.0. Thanks
-      @AvitalFineRedis. #1522
-  * Added support for CLIENT LIST with ID, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1505
-  * Added support for MINID and LIMIT with xtrim, available in Reds 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1508
-  * Implemented LMOVE and BLMOVE commands, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1504
-  * Added GET argument to SET command, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @2014BDuck. #1412
-  * Documentation fixes. Thanks @enjoy-binbin @jonher937. #1496 #1532
-  * Added support for XAUTOCLAIM, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1529
-  * Added IDLE support for XPENDING, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1523
-  * Add a count parameter to lpop/rpop, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @wavenator. #1487
-  * Added a (pypy) trove classifier for Python 3.9.
-      Thanks @D3X. #1535
-  * Added ZINTER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1520
-  * Added ZINTER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1520
-  * Added ZDIFF and ZDIFFSTORE support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1518
-  * Added ZRANGESTORE support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1521
-  * Added LT and GT support for ZADD, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1509
-  * Added ZRANDMEMBER support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1519
-  * Added GETDEL support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1514
-  * Added CLIENT KILL laddr filter, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1506
-  * Added CLIENT UNPAUSE, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1512
-  * Added NOMKSTREAM support for XADD, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @chayim. #1507
-  * Added HRANDFIELD support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1513
-  * Added CLIENT INFO support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1517
-  * Added GETEX support, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @AvitalFineRedis. #1515
-  * Added support for COPY command, available in Redis 6.2.0.
-      Thanks @malinaa96. #1492
-  * Provide a development and testing environment via docker. Thanks
-      @abrookins. #1365
-  * Added support for the LPOS command available in Redis 6.0.6. Thanks
-      @aparcar #1353/#1354
-  * Added support for the ACL LOG command available in Redis 6. Thanks
-      @2014BDuck. #1307
-  * Added support for ABSTTL option of the RESTORE command available in
-      Redis 5.0. Thanks @charettes. #1423
-* 3.5.3 (June 1, 2020)
-  * Restore try/except clauses to __del__ methods. These will be removed
-      in 4.0 when more explicit resource management if enforced. #1339
-  * Update the master_address when Sentinels promote a new master. #847
-  * Update SentinelConnectionPool to not forcefully disconnect other in-use
-      connections which can negatively affect threaded applications. #1345
-* 3.5.2 (May 14, 2020)
-  * Tune the locking in ConnectionPool.get_connection so that the lock is
-      not held while waiting for the socket to establish and validate the
-      TCP connection.
-* 3.5.1 (May 9, 2020)
-  * Fix for HSET argument validation to allow any non-None key. Thanks
-      @AleksMat, #1337, #1341
-* 3.5.0 (April 29, 2020)
-  * Removed exception trapping from __del__ methods. redis-py objects that
-      hold various resources implement __del__ cleanup methods to release
-      those resources when the object goes out of scope. This provides a
-      fallback for when these objects aren't explicitly closed by user code.
-      Prior to this change any errors encountered in closing these resources
-      would be hidden from the user. Thanks @jdufresne. #1281
-  * Expanded support for connection strings specifying a username connecting
-      to pre-v6 servers. #1274
-  * Optimized Lock's blocking_timeout and sleep. If the lock cannot be
-      acquired and the sleep value would cause the loop to sleep beyond
-      blocking_timeout, fail immediately. Thanks @clslgrnc. #1263
-  * Added support for passing Python memoryviews to Redis command args that
-      expect strings or bytes. The memoryview instance is sent directly to
-      the socket such that there are zero copies made of the underlying data
-      during command packing. Thanks @Cody-G. #1265, #1285
-  * HSET command now can accept multiple pairs. HMSET has been marked as
-      deprecated now. Thanks to @laixintao #1271
-  * Don't manually DISCARD when encountering an ExecAbortError.
-      Thanks @nickgaya, #1300/#1301
-  * Reset the watched state of pipelines after calling exec. This saves
-      a roundtrip to the server by not having to call UNWATCH within
-      Pipeline.reset(). Thanks @nickgaya, #1299/#1302
-  * Added the KEEPTTL option for the SET command. Thanks
-      @laixintao #1304/#1280
-  * Added the MEMORY STATS command. #1268
-  * Lock.extend() now has a new option, `replace_ttl`. When False (the
-      default), Lock.extend() adds the `additional_time` to the lock's existing
-      TTL. When replace_ttl=True, the lock's existing TTL is replaced with
-      the value of `additional_time`.
-  * Add testing and support for PyPy.
-* 3.4.1
-  * Move the username argument in the Redis and Connection classes to the
-      end of the argument list. This helps those poor souls that specify all
-      their connection options as non-keyword arguments. #1276
-  * Prior to ACL support, redis-py ignored the username component of
-      Connection URLs. With ACL support, usernames are no longer ignored and
-      are used to authenticate against an ACL rule. Some cloud vendors with
-      managed Redis instances (like Heroku) provide connection URLs with a
-      username component pre-ACL that is not intended to be used. Sending that
-      username to Redis servers < 6.0.0 results in an error. Attempt to detect
-      this condition and retry the AUTH command with only the password such
-      that authentication continues to work for these users. #1274
-  * Removed the __eq__ hooks to Redis and ConnectionPool that were added
-      in 3.4.0. This ended up being a bad idea as two separate connection
-      pools be considered equal yet manage a completely separate set of
-      connections.
-* 3.4.0
-  * Allow empty pipelines to be executed if there are WATCHed keys.
-      This is a convenient way to test if any of the watched keys changed
-      without actually running any other commands. Thanks @brianmaissy.
-      #1233, #1234
-  * Removed support for end of life Python 3.4.
-  * Added support for all ACL commands in Redis 6. Thanks @IAmATeaPot418
-      for helping.
-  * Pipeline instances now always evaluate to True. Prior to this change,
-      pipeline instances relied on __len__ for boolean evaluation which
-      meant that pipelines with no commands on the stack would be considered
-      False. #994
-  * Client instances and Connection pools now support a 'client_name'
-      argument. If supplied, all connections created will call CLIENT SETNAME
-      as soon as the connection is opened. Thanks to @Habbie for supplying
-      the basis of this change. #802
-  * Added the 'ssl_check_hostname' argument to specify whether SSL
-      connections should require the server hostname to match the hostname
-      specified in the SSL cert. By default 'ssl_check_hostname' is False
-      for backwards compatibility. #1196
-  * Slightly optimized command packing. Thanks @Deneby67. #1255
-  * Added support for the TYPE argument to SCAN. Thanks @netocp. #1220
-  * Better thread and fork safety in ConnectionPool and
-      BlockingConnectionPool. Added better locking to synchronize critical
-      sections rather than relying on CPython-specific implementation details
-      relating to atomic operations. Adjusted how the pools identify and
-      deal with a fork. Added a ChildDeadlockedError exception that is
-      raised by child processes in the very unlikely chance that a deadlock
-      is encountered. Thanks @gmbnomis, @mdellweg, @yht804421715. #1270,
-      #1138, #1178, #906, #1262
-  * Added __eq__ hooks to the Redis and ConnectionPool classes.
-      Thanks @brainix. #1240
-* 3.3.11
-  * Further fix for the SSLError -> TimeoutError mapping to work
-      on obscure releases of Python 2.7.
-* 3.3.10
-  * Fixed a potential error handling bug for the SSLError -> TimeoutError
-      mapping introduced in 3.3.9. Thanks @zbristow. #1224
-* 3.3.9
-  * Mapped Python 2.7 SSLError to TimeoutError where appropriate. Timeouts
-      should now consistently raise TimeoutErrors on Python 2.7 for both
-      unsecured and secured connections. Thanks @zbristow. #1222
-* 3.3.8
-  * Fixed MONITOR parsing to properly parse IPv6 client addresses, unix
-      socket connections and commands issued from Lua. Thanks @kukey. #1201
-* 3.3.7
-  * Fixed a regression introduced in 3.3.0 where socket.error exceptions
-      (or subclasses) could potentially be raised instead of
-      redis.exceptions.ConnectionError. #1202
-* 3.3.6
-  * Fixed a regression in 3.3.5 that caused PubSub.get_message() to raise
-      a socket.timeout exception when passing a timeout value. #1200
-* 3.3.5
-  * Fix an issue where socket.timeout errors could be handled by the wrong
-      exception handler in Python 2.7.
-* 3.3.4
-  * More specifically identify nonblocking read errors for both SSL and
-      non-SSL connections. 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 on Python 2.7 could
-      potentially mask a ConnectionError. #1197
-* 3.3.3
-  * The SSL module in Python < 2.7.9 handles non-blocking sockets
-      differently than 2.7.9+. This patch accommodates older versions. #1197
-* 3.3.2
-  * Further fixed a regression introduced in 3.3.0 involving SSL and
-      non-blocking sockets. #1197
-* 3.3.1
-  * Fixed a regression introduced in 3.3.0 involving SSL and non-blocking
-      sockets. #1197
-* 3.3.0
-  * Resolve a race condition with the PubSubWorkerThread. #1150
-  * Cleanup socket read error messages. Thanks Vic Yu. #1159
-  * Cleanup the Connection's selector correctly. Thanks Bruce Merry. #1153
-  * Added a Monitor object to make working with MONITOR output easy.
-      Thanks Roey Prat #1033
-  * Internal cleanup: Removed the legacy Token class which was necessary
-      with older version of Python that are no longer supported. #1066
-  * Response callbacks are now case insensitive. This allows users that
-      call Redis.execute_command() directly to pass lower-case command
-      names and still get reasonable responses. #1168
-  * Added support for hiredis-py 1.0.0 encoding error support. This should
-      make the PythonParser and the HiredisParser behave identically
-      when encountering encoding errors. Thanks Brian Candler. #1161/#1162
-  * All authentication errors now properly raise AuthenticationError.
-      AuthenticationError is now a subclass of ConnectionError, which will
-      cause the connection to be disconnected and cleaned up appropriately.
-      #923
-  * Add READONLY and READWRITE commands. Thanks @theodesp. #1114
-  * Remove selectors in favor of nonblocking sockets. Selectors had
-      issues in some environments including eventlet and gevent. This should
-      resolve those issues with no other side effects.
-  * Fixed an issue with XCLAIM and previously claimed but not removed
-      messages. Thanks @thomdask. #1192/#1191
-  * Allow for single connection client instances. These instances
-      are not thread safe but offer other benefits including a subtle
-      performance increase.
-  * Added extensive health checks that keep the connections lively.
-      Passing the "health_check_interval=N" option to the Redis client class
-      or to a ConnectionPool ensures that a round trip PING/PONG is successful
-      before any command if the underlying connection has been idle for more
-      than N seconds. ConnectionErrors and TimeoutErrors are automatically
-      retried once for health checks.
-  * Changed the PubSubWorkerThread to use a threading.Event object rather
-      than a boolean to control the thread's life cycle. Thanks Timothy
-      Rule. #1194/#1195.
-  * Fixed a bug in Pipeline error handling that would incorrectly retry
-      ConnectionErrors.
-* 3.2.1
-  * Fix SentinelConnectionPool to work in multiprocess/forked environments.
-* 3.2.0
-  * Added support for `select.poll` to test whether data can be read
-      on a socket. This should allow for significantly more connections to
-      be used with pubsub. Fixes #486/#1115
-  * Attempt to guarantee that the ConnectionPool hands out healthy
-      connections. Healthy connections are those that have an established
-      socket connection to the Redis server, are ready to accept a command
-      and have no data available to read. Fixes #1127/#886
-  * Use the socket.IPPROTO_TCP constant instead of socket.SOL_TCP.
-      IPPROTO_TCP is available on more interpreters (Jython for instance).
-      Thanks @Junnplus. #1130
-  * Fixed a regression introduced in 3.0 that mishandles exceptions not
-      derived from the base Exception class. KeyboardInterrupt and
-      gevent.timeout notable. Thanks Christian Fersch. #1128/#1129
-  * Significant improvements to handing connections with forked processes.
-      Parent and child processes no longer trample on each others' connections.
-      Thanks to Jay Rolette for the patch and highlighting this issue.
-      #504/#732/#784/#863
-  * PythonParser no longer closes the associated connection's socket. The
-      connection itself will close the socket. #1108/#1085
-* 3.1.0
-  * Connection URLs must have one of the following schemes:
-      redis://, rediss://, unix://. Thanks @jdupl123. #961/#969
-  * Fixed an issue with retry_on_timeout logic that caused some TimeoutErrors
-      to be retried. Thanks Aaron Yang. #1022/#1023
-  * Added support for SNI for SSL. Thanks @oridistor and Roey Prat. #1087
-  * Fixed ConnectionPool repr for pools with no connections. Thanks
-      Cody Scott. #1043/#995
-  * Fixed GEOHASH to return a None value when specifying a place that
-      doesn't exist on the server. Thanks @guybe7. #1126
-  * Fixed XREADGROUP to return an empty dictionary for messages that
-      have been deleted but still exist in the unacknowledged queue. Thanks
-      @xeizmendi. #1116
-  * Added an owned method to Lock objects. owned returns a boolean
-      indicating whether the current lock instance still owns the lock.
-      Thanks Dave Johansen. #1112
-  * Allow lock.acquire() to accept an optional token argument. If
-      provided, the token argument is used as the unique value used to claim
-      the lock. Thankd Dave Johansen. #1112
-  * Added a reacquire method to Lock objects. reacquire attempts to renew
-      the lock such that the timeout is extended to the same value that the
-      lock was initially acquired with. Thanks Ihor Kalnytskyi. #1014
-  * Stream names found within XREAD and XREADGROUP responses now properly
-      respect the decode_responses flag.
-  * XPENDING_RANGE now requires the user the specify the min, max and
-      count arguments. Newer versions of Redis prevent count from being
-      infinite so it's left to the user to specify these values explicitly.
-  * ZADD now returns None when xx=True and incr=True and an element
-      is specified that doesn't exist in the sorted set. This matches
-      what the server returns in this case. #1084
-  * Added client_kill_filter that accepts various filters to identify
-      and kill clients. Thanks Theofanis Despoudis. #1098
-  * Fixed a race condition that occurred when unsubscribing and
-      resubscribing to the same channel or pattern in rapid succession.
-      Thanks Marcin Raczyński. #764
-  * Added a LockNotOwnedError that is raised when trying to extend or
-      release a lock that is no longer owned. This is a subclass of LockError
-      so previous code should continue to work as expected. Thanks Joshua
-      Harlow. #1095
-  * Fixed a bug in GEORADIUS that forced decoding of places without
-      respecting the decode_responses option. Thanks Bo Bayles. #1082
-* 3.0.1
-  * Fixed regression with UnixDomainSocketConnection caused by 3.0.0.
-      Thanks Jyrki Muukkonen
-  * Fixed an issue with the new asynchronous flag on flushdb and flushall.
-      Thanks rogeryen
-  * Updated Lock.locked() method to indicate whether *any* process has
-      acquired the lock, not just the current one. This is in line with
-      the behavior of threading.Lock. Thanks Alan Justino da Silva
-* 3.0.0
-  BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
-  * When using a Lock as a context manager and the lock fails to be acquired
-      a LockError is now raised. This prevents the code block inside the
-      context manager from being executed if the lock could not be acquired.
-  * Renamed LuaLock to Lock.
-  * Removed the pipeline based Lock implementation in favor of the LuaLock
-      implementation.
-  * Only bytes, strings and numbers (ints, longs and floats) are acceptable
-      for keys and values. Previously redis-py attempted to cast other types
-      to str() and store the result. This caused must confusion and frustration
-      when passing boolean values (cast to 'True' and 'False') or None values
-      (cast to 'None'). It is now the user's responsibility to cast all
-      key names and values to bytes, strings or numbers before passing the
-      value to redis-py.
-  * The StrictRedis class has been renamed to Redis. StrictRedis will
-      continue to exist as an alias of Redis for the foreseeable future.
-  * The legacy Redis client class has been removed. It caused much confusion
-      to users.
-  * ZINCRBY arguments 'value' and 'amount' have swapped order to match the
-      the Redis server. The new argument order is: keyname, amount, value.
-  * MGET no longer raises an error if zero keys are passed in. Instead an
-      empty list is returned.
-  * MSET and MSETNX now require all keys/values to be specified in a single
-      dictionary argument named mapping. This was changed to allow for future
-      options to these commands in the future.
-  * ZADD now requires all element names/scores be specified in a single
-      dictionary argument named mapping. This was required to allow the NX,
-      XX, CH and INCR options to be specified.
-  * ssl_cert_reqs now has a default value of 'required' by default. This
-      should make connecting to a remote Redis server over SSL more secure.
-      Thanks u2mejc
-  * Removed support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3. Thanks jdufresne
-  OTHER CHANGES
-  * Added missing DECRBY command. Thanks derek-dchu
-  * CLUSTER INFO and CLUSTER NODES responses are now properly decoded to
-      strings.
-  * Added a 'locked()' method to Lock objects. This method returns True
-      if the lock has been acquired and owned by the current process,
-      otherwise False.
-  * EXISTS now supports multiple keys. It's return value is now the number
-      of keys in the list that exist.
-  * Ensure all commands can accept key names as bytes. This fixes issues
-      with BLPOP, BRPOP and SORT.
-  * All errors resulting from bad user input are raised as DataError
-      exceptions. DataError is a subclass of RedisError so this should be
-      transparent to anyone previously catching these.
-  * Added support for NX, XX, CH and INCR options to ZADD
-  * Added support for the MIGRATE command
-  * Added support for the MEMORY USAGE and MEMORY PURGE commands. Thanks
-      Itamar Haber
-  * Added support for the 'asynchronous' argument to FLUSHDB and FLUSHALL
-      commands. Thanks Itamar Haber
-  * Added support for the BITFIELD command. Thanks Charles Leifer and
-      Itamar Haber
-  * Improved performance on pipeline requests with large chunks of data.
-      Thanks tzickel
-  * Fixed test suite to not fail if another client is connected to the
-      server the tests are running against.
-  * Added support for SWAPDB. Thanks Itamar Haber
-  * Added support for all STREAM commands. Thanks Roey Prat and Itamar Haber
-  * SHUTDOWN now accepts the 'save' and 'nosave' arguments. Thanks
-      dwilliams-kenzan
-  * Added support for ZPOPMAX, ZPOPMIN, BZPOPMAX, BZPOPMIN. Thanks
-      Itamar Haber
-  * Added support for the 'type' argument in CLIENT LIST. Thanks Roey Prat
-  * Added support for CLIENT PAUSE. Thanks Roey Prat
-  * Added support for CLIENT ID and CLIENT UNBLOCK. Thanks Itamar Haber
-  * GEODIST now returns a None value when referencing a place that does
-      not exist. Thanks qingping209
-  * Added a ping() method to pubsub objects. Thanks krishan-carbon
-  * Fixed a bug with keys in the INFO dict that contained ':' symbols.
-      Thanks mzalimeni
-  * Fixed the select system call retry compatibility with Python 2.x.
-      Thanks lddubeau
-  * max_connections is now a valid querystring argument for creating
-      connection pools from URLs. Thanks mmaslowskicc
-  * Added the UNLINK command. Thanks yozel
-  * Added socket_type option to Connection for configurability.
-      Thanks garlicnation
-  * Lock.do_acquire now atomically sets acquires the lock and sets the
-      expire value via set(nx=True, px=timeout). Thanks 23doors
-  * Added 'count' argument to SPOP. Thanks AlirezaSadeghi
-  * Fixed an issue parsing client_list responses that contained an '='.
-      Thanks swilly22
-* 2.10.6
-  * Various performance improvements. Thanks cjsimpson
-  * Fixed a bug with SRANDMEMBER where the behavior for `number=0` did
-      not match the spec. Thanks Alex Wang
-  * Added HSTRLEN command. Thanks Alexander Putilin
-  * Added the TOUCH command. Thanks Anis Jonischkeit
-  * Remove unnecessary calls to the server when registering Lua scripts.
-      Thanks Ben Greenberg
-  * SET's EX and PX arguments now allow values of zero. Thanks huangqiyin
-  * Added PUBSUB {CHANNELS, NUMPAT, NUMSUB} commands. Thanks Angus Pearson
-  * PubSub connections that encounter `InterruptedError`s now
-      retry automatically. Thanks Carlton Gibson and Seth M. Larson
-  * LPUSH and RPUSH commands run on PyPy now correctly returns the number
-      of items of the list. Thanks Jeong YunWon
-  * Added support to automatically retry socket EINTR errors. Thanks
-      Thomas Steinacher
-  * PubSubWorker threads started with `run_in_thread` are now daemonized
-      so the thread shuts down when the running process goes away. Thanks
-      Keith Ainsworth
-  * Added support for GEO commands. Thanks Pau Freixes, Alex DeBrie and
-      Abraham Toriz
-  * Made client construction from URLs smarter. Thanks Tim Savage
-  * Added support for CLUSTER * commands. Thanks Andy Huang
-  * The RESTORE command now accepts an optional `replace` boolean.
-      Thanks Yoshinari Takaoka
-  * Attempt to connect to a new Sentinel if a TimeoutError occurs. Thanks
-      Bo Lopker
-  * Fixed a bug in the client's `__getitem__` where a KeyError would be
-      raised if the value returned by the server is an empty string.
-      Thanks Javier Candeira.
-  * Socket timeouts when connecting to a server are now properly raised
-      as TimeoutErrors.
-* 2.10.5
-  * Allow URL encoded parameters in Redis URLs. Characters like a "/" can
-      now be URL encoded and redis-py will correctly decode them. Thanks
-      Paul Keene.
-  * Added support for the WAIT command. Thanks <https://github.com/eshizhan>
-  * Better shutdown support for the PubSub Worker Thread. It now properly
-      cleans up the connection, unsubscribes from any channels and patterns
-      previously subscribed to and consumes any waiting messages on the socket.
-  * Added the ability to sleep for a brief period in the event of a
-      WatchError occurring. Thanks Joshua Harlow.
-  * Fixed a bug with pipeline error reporting when dealing with characters
-      in error messages that could not be encoded to the connection's
-      character set. Thanks Hendrik Muhs.
-  * Fixed a bug in Sentinel connections that would inadvertently connect
-      to the master when the connection pool resets. Thanks
-      <https://github.com/df3n5>
-  * Better timeout support in Pubsub get_message. Thanks Andy Isaacson.
-  * Fixed a bug with the HiredisParser that would cause the parser to
-      get stuck in an endless loop if a specific number of bytes were
-      delivered from the socket. This fix also increases performance of
-      parsing large responses from the Redis server.
-  * Added support for ZREVRANGEBYLEX.
-  * ConnectionErrors are now raised if Redis refuses a connection due to
-      the maxclients limit being exceeded. Thanks Roman Karpovich.
-  * max_connections can now be set when instantiating client instances.
-      Thanks Ohad Perry.
-* 2.10.4
-    (skipped due to a PyPI snafu)
-* 2.10.3
-  * Fixed a bug with the bytearray support introduced in 2.10.2. Thanks
-      Josh Owen.
-* 2.10.2
-  * Added support for Hiredis's new bytearray support. Thanks
-      <https://github.com/tzickel>
-  * POSSIBLE BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Fixed a possible race condition
-      when multiple threads share the same Lock instance with a timeout. Lock
-      tokens are now stored in thread local storage by default. If you have
-      code that acquires a lock in one thread and passes that lock instance to
-      another thread to release it, you need to disable thread local storage.
-      Refer to the doc strings on the Lock class about the thread_local
-      argument information.
-  * Fixed a regression in from_url where "charset" and "errors" weren't
-      valid options. "encoding" and "encoding_errors" are still accepted
-      and preferred.
-  * The "charset" and "errors" options have been deprecated. Passing
-      either to StrictRedis.__init__ or from_url will still work but will
-      also emit a DeprecationWarning. Instead use the "encoding" and
-      "encoding_errors" options.
-  * Fixed a compatibility bug with Python 3 when the server closes a
-      connection.
-  * Added BITPOS command. Thanks <https://github.com/jettify>.
-  * Fixed a bug when attempting to send large values to Redis in a Pipeline.
-* 2.10.1
-  * Fixed a bug where Sentinel connections to a server that's no longer a
-      master and receives a READONLY error will disconnect and reconnect to
-      the master.
-* 2.10.0
-  * Discontinued support for Python 2.5. Upgrade. You'll be happier.
-  * The HiRedis parser will now properly raise ConnectionErrors.
-  * Completely refactored PubSub support. Fixes all known PubSub bugs and
-      adds a bunch of new features. Docs can be found in the README under the
-      new "Publish / Subscribe" section.
-  * Added the new HyperLogLog commands (PFADD, PFCOUNT, PFMERGE). Thanks
-      Pepijn de Vos and Vincent Ohprecio.
-  * Updated TTL and PTTL commands with Redis 2.8+ semantics. Thanks Markus
-      Kaiserswerth.
-  * *SCAN commands now return a long (int on Python3) cursor value rather
-      than the string representation. This might be slightly backwards
-incompatible in code using*SCAN commands loops such as
-      "while cursor != '0':".
-  * Added extra *SCAN commands that return iterators instead of the normal
-      [cursor, data] type. Use scan_iter, hscan_iter, sscan_iter, and
-      zscan_iter for iterators. Thanks Mathieu Longtin.
-  * Added support for SLOWLOG commands. Thanks Rick van Hattem.
-  * Added lexicographical commands ZRANGEBYLEX, ZREMRANGEBYLEX, and ZLEXCOUNT
-      for sorted sets.
-  * Connection objects now support an optional argument, socket_read_size,
-      indicating how much data to read during each socket.recv() call. After
-      benchmarking, increased the default size to 64k, which dramatically
-      improves performance when fetching large values, such as many results
-      in a pipeline or a large (>1MB) string value.
-  * Improved the pack_command and send_packed_command functions to increase
-      performance when sending large (>1MB) values.
-  * Sentinel Connections to master servers now detect when a READONLY error
-      is encountered and disconnect themselves and all other active connections
-      to the same master so that the new master can be discovered.
-  * Fixed Sentinel state parsing on Python 3.
-  * Added support for SENTINEL MONITOR, SENTINEL REMOVE, and SENTINEL SET
-      commands. Thanks Greg Murphy.
-  * INFO output that doesn't follow the "key:value" format will now be
-      appended to a key named "__raw__" in the INFO dictionary. Thanks Pedro
-      Larroy.
-  * The "vagrant" directory contains a complete vagrant environment for
-      redis-py developers. The environment runs a Redis master, a Redis slave,
-      and 3 Sentinels. Future iterations of the test suite will incorporate
-      more integration style tests, ensuring things like failover happen
-      correctly.
-  * It's now possible to create connection pool instances from a URL.
-      StrictRedis.from_url() now uses this feature to create a connection pool
-      instance and use that when creating a new client instance. Thanks
-      <https://github.com/chillipino>
-  * When creating client instances or connection pool instances from an URL,
-      it's now possible to pass additional options to the connection pool with
-      querystring arguments.
-  * Fixed a bug where some encodings (like utf-16) were unusable on Python 3
-      as command names and literals would get encoded.
-  * Added an SSLConnection class that allows for secure connections through
-      stunnel or other means. Construct an SSL connection with the ssl=True
-      option on client classes, using the rediss:// scheme from an URL, or
-      by passing the SSLConnection class to a connection pool's
-      connection_class argument. Thanks <https://github.com/oranagra>.
-  * Added a socket_connect_timeout option to control how long to wait while
-      establishing a TCP connection before timing out. This lets the client
-      fail fast when attempting to connect to a downed server while keeping
-      a more lenient timeout for all other socket operations.
-  * Added TCP Keep-alive support by passing use the socket_keepalive=True
-      option. Finer grain control can be achieved using the
-      socket_keepalive_options option which expects a dictionary with any of
-      the keys (socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE, socket.TCP_KEEPCNT, socket.TCP_KEEPINTVL)
-      and integers for values. Thanks Yossi Gottlieb.
-  * Added a `retry_on_timeout` option that controls how socket.timeout errors
-      are handled. By default it is set to False and will cause the client to
-      raise a TimeoutError anytime a socket.timeout is encountered. If
-      `retry_on_timeout` is set to True, the client will retry a command that
-      timed out once like other `socket.error`s.
-  * Completely refactored the Lock system. There is now a LuaLock class
-      that's used when the Redis server is capable of running Lua scripts along
-      with a fallback class for Redis servers < 2.6. The new locks fix several
-      subtle race consider that the old lock could face. In additional, a
-      new method, "extend" is available on lock instances that all a lock
-      owner to extend the amount of time they have the lock for. Thanks to
-      Eli Finkelshteyn and <https://github.com/chillipino> for contributions.
-* 2.9.1
-  * IPv6 support. Thanks <https://github.com/amashinchi>
-* 2.9.0
-  * Performance improvement for packing commands when using the PythonParser.
-      Thanks Guillaume Viot.
-  * Executing an empty pipeline transaction no longer sends MULTI/EXEC to
-      the server. Thanks EliFinkelshteyn.
-  * Errors when authenticating (incorrect password) and selecting a database
-      now close the socket.
-  * Full Sentinel support thanks to Vitja Makarov. Thanks!
-  * Better repr support for client and connection pool instances. Thanks
-      Mark Roberts.
-  * Error messages that the server sends to the client are now included
-      in the client error message. Thanks Sangjin Lim.
-  * Added the SCAN, SSCAN, HSCAN, and ZSCAN commands. Thanks Jingchao Hu.
-  * ResponseErrors generated by pipeline execution provide addition context
-      including the position of the command in the pipeline and the actual
-      command text generated the error.
-  * ConnectionPools now play nicer in threaded environments that fork. Thanks
-      Christian Joergensen.
-* 2.8.0
-  * redis-py should play better with gevent when a gevent Timeout is raised.
-      Thanks leifkb.
-  * Added SENTINEL command. Thanks Anna Janackova.
-  * Fixed a bug where pipelines could potentially corrupt a connection
-      if the MULTI command generated a ResponseError. Thanks EliFinkelshteyn
-      for the report.
-  * Connections now call socket.shutdown() prior to socket.close() to
-      ensure communication ends immediately per the note at
-      <https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#socket.socket.close>
-      Thanks to David Martin for pointing this out.
-  * Lock checks are now based on floats rather than ints. Thanks
-      Vitja Makarov.
-* 2.7.6
-  * Added CONFIG RESETSTAT command. Thanks Yossi Gottlieb.
-  * Fixed a bug introduced in 2.7.3 that caused issues with script objects
-      and pipelines. Thanks Carpentier Pierre-Francois.
-  * Converted redis-py's test suite to use the awesome py.test library.
-  * Fixed a bug introduced in 2.7.5 that prevented a ConnectionError from
-      being raised when the Redis server is LOADING data.
-  * Added a BusyLoadingError exception that's raised when the Redis server
-      is starting up and not accepting commands yet. BusyLoadingError
-      subclasses ConnectionError, which this state previously returned.
-      Thanks Yossi Gottlieb.
-* 2.7.5
-  * DEL, HDEL and ZREM commands now return the numbers of keys deleted
-      instead of just True/False.
-  * from_url now supports URIs with a port number. Thanks Aaron Westendorf.
-* 2.7.4
-  * Added missing INCRBY method. Thanks Krzysztof Dorosz.
-  * SET now accepts the EX, PX, NX and XX options from Redis 2.6.12. These
-      options will generate errors if these options are used when connected
-      to a Redis server < 2.6.12. Thanks George Yoshida.
-* 2.7.3
-  * Fixed a bug with BRPOPLPUSH and lists with empty strings.
-  * All empty except: clauses have been replaced to only catch Exception
-      subclasses. This prevents a KeyboardInterrupt from triggering exception
-      handlers. Thanks Lucian Branescu Mihaila.
-  * All exceptions that are the result of redis server errors now share a
-      command Exception subclass, ServerError. Thanks Matt Robenolt.
-  * Prevent DISCARD from being called if MULTI wasn't also called. Thanks
-      Pete Aykroyd.
-  * SREM now returns an integer indicating the number of items removed from
-      the set. Thanks <https://github.com/ronniekk>.
-  * Fixed a bug with BGSAVE and BGREWRITEAOF response callbacks with Python3.
-      Thanks Nathan Wan.
-  * Added CLIENT GETNAME and CLIENT SETNAME commands.
-      Thanks <https://github.com/bitterb>.
-  * It's now possible to use len() on a pipeline instance to determine the
-      number of commands that will be executed. Thanks Jon Parise.
-  * Fixed a bug in INFO's parse routine with floating point numbers. Thanks
-      Ali Onur Uyar.
-  * Fixed a bug with BITCOUNT to allow `start` and `end` to both be zero.
-      Thanks Tim Bart.
-  * The transaction() method now accepts a boolean keyword argument,
-      value_from_callable. By default, or if False is passes, the transaction()
-      method will return the value of the pipelines execution. Otherwise, it
-      will return whatever func() returns.
-  * Python3 compatibility fix ensuring we're not already bytes(). Thanks
-      Salimane Adjao Moustapha.
-  * Added PSETEX. Thanks YAMAMOTO Takashi.
-  * Added a BlockingConnectionPool to limit the number of connections that
-      can be created. Thanks James Arthur.
-  * SORT now accepts a `groups` option that if specified, will return
-      tuples of n-length, where n is the number of keys specified in the GET
-      argument. This allows for convenient row-based iteration. Thanks
-      Ionuț Arțăriși.
-* 2.7.2
-  * Parse errors are now *always* raised on multi/exec pipelines, regardless
-      of the `raise_on_error` flag. See
-      <https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/redis-db/VUiEFT8U8U0>
-      for more info.
-* 2.7.1
-  * Packaged tests with source code
-* 2.7.0
-  * Added BITOP and BITCOUNT commands. Thanks Mark Tozzi.
-  * Added the TIME command. Thanks Jason Knight.
-  * Added support for LUA scripting. Thanks to Angus Peart, Drew Smathers,
-      Issac Kelly, Louis-Philippe Perron, Sean Bleier, Jeffrey Kaditz, and
-      Dvir Volk for various patches and contributions to this feature.
-  * Changed the default error handling in pipelines. By default, the first
-      error in a pipeline will now be raised. A new parameter to the
-      pipeline's execute, `raise_on_error`, can be set to False to keep the
-      old behavior of embeedding the exception instances in the result.
-  * Fixed a bug with pipelines where parse errors won't corrupt the
-      socket.
-  * Added the optional `number` argument to SRANDMEMBER for use with
-      Redis 2.6+ servers.
-  * Added PEXPIRE/PEXPIREAT/PTTL commands. Thanks Luper Rouch.
-  * Added INCRBYFLOAT/HINCRBYFLOAT commands. Thanks Nikita Uvarov.
-  * High precision floating point values won't lose their precision when
-      being sent to the Redis server. Thanks Jason Oster and Oleg Pudeyev.
-  * Added CLIENT LIST/CLIENT KILL commands
-* 2.6.2
-  * `from_url` is now available as a classmethod on client classes. Thanks
-      Jon Parise for the patch.
-  * Fixed several encoding errors resulting from the Python 3.x support.
-* 2.6.1
-  * Python 3.x support! Big thanks to Alex Grönholm.
-  * Fixed a bug in the PythonParser's read_response that could hide an error
-      from the client (#251).
-* 2.6.0
-  * Changed (p)subscribe and (p)unsubscribe to no longer return messages
-      indicating the channel was subscribed/unsubscribed to. These messages
-      are available in the listen() loop instead. This is to prevent the
-      following scenario:
-    * Client A is subscribed to "foo"
-    * Client B publishes message to "foo"
-    * Client A subscribes to channel "bar" at the same time.
-      Prior to this change, the subscribe() call would return the published
-      messages on "foo" rather than the subscription confirmation to "bar".
-  * Added support for GETRANGE, thanks Jean-Philippe Caruana
-  * A new setting "decode_responses" specifies whether return values from
-      Redis commands get decoded automatically using the client's charset
-      value. Thanks to Frankie Dintino for the patch.
-* 2.4.13
-  * redis.from_url() can take an URL representing a Redis connection string
-      and return a client object. Thanks Kenneth Reitz for the patch.
-* 2.4.12
-  * ConnectionPool is now fork-safe. Thanks Josiah Carson for the patch.
-* 2.4.11
-  * AuthenticationError will now be correctly raised if an invalid password
-      is supplied.
-  * If Hiredis is unavailable, the HiredisParser will raise a RedisError
-      if selected manually.
-  * Made the INFO command more tolerant of Redis changes formatting. Fix
-      for #217.
-* 2.4.10
-  * Buffer reads from socket in the PythonParser. Fix for a Windows-specific
-      bug (#205).
-  * Added the OBJECT and DEBUG OBJECT commands.
-  * Added __del__ methods for classes that hold on to resources that need to
-      be cleaned up. This should prevent resource leakage when these objects
-      leave scope due to misuse or unhandled exceptions. Thanks David Wolever
-      for the suggestion.
-  * Added the ECHO command for completeness.
-  * Fixed a bug where attempting to subscribe to a PubSub channel of a Redis
-      server that's down would blow out the stack. Fixes #179 and #195. Thanks
-      Ovidiu Predescu for the test case.
-  * StrictRedis's TTL command now returns a -1 when querying a key with no
-      expiration. The Redis class continues to return None.
-  * ZADD and SADD now return integer values indicating the number of items
-      added. Thanks Homer Strong.
-  * Renamed the base client class to StrictRedis, replacing ZADD and LREM in
-      favor of their official argument order. The Redis class is now a subclass
-      of StrictRedis, implementing the legacy redis-py implementations of ZADD
-      and LREM. Docs have been updated to suggesting the use of StrictRedis.
-  * SETEX in StrictRedis is now compliant with official Redis SETEX command.
-      the name, value, time implementation moved to "Redis" for backwards
-      compatibility.
-* 2.4.9
-  * Removed socket retry logic in Connection. This is the responsibility of
-      the caller to determine if the command is safe and can be retried. Thanks
-      David Wolver.
-  * Added some extra guards around various types of exceptions being raised
-      when sending or parsing data. Thanks David Wolver and Denis Bilenko.
-* 2.4.8
-  * Imported with_statement from __future__ for Python 2.5 compatibility.
-* 2.4.7
-  * Fixed a bug where some connections were not getting released back to the
-      connection pool after pipeline execution.
-  * Pipelines can now be used as context managers. This is the preferred way
-      of use to ensure that connections get cleaned up properly. Thanks
-      David Wolever.
-  * Added a convenience method called transaction() on the base Redis class.
-      This method eliminates much of the boilerplate used when using pipelines
-      to watch Redis keys. See the documentation for details on usage.
-* 2.4.6
-  * Variadic arguments for SADD, SREM, ZREN, HDEL, LPUSH, and RPUSH. Thanks
-      Raphaël Vinot.
-  * (CRITICAL) Fixed an error in the Hiredis parser that occasionally caused
-      the socket connection to become corrupted and unusable. This became
-      noticeable once connection pools started to be used.
-  * ZRANGE, ZREVRANGE, ZRANGEBYSCORE, and ZREVRANGEBYSCORE now take an
-      additional optional argument, score_cast_func, which is a callable used
-      to cast the score value in the return type. The default is float.
-  * Removed the PUBLISH method from the PubSub class. Connections that are
-      [P]SUBSCRIBEd cannot issue PUBLISH commands, so it doesn't make sense
-      to have it here.
-  * Pipelines now contain WATCH and UNWATCH. Calling WATCH or UNWATCH from
-      the base client class will result in a deprecation warning. After
-      WATCHing one or more keys, the pipeline will be placed in immediate
-      execution mode until UNWATCH or MULTI are called. Refer to the new
-      pipeline docs in the README for more information. Thanks to David Wolever
-      and Randall Leeds for greatly helping with this.
-* 2.4.5
-  * The PythonParser now works better when reading zero length strings.
-* 2.4.4
-  * Fixed a typo introduced in 2.4.3
-* 2.4.3
-  * Fixed a bug in the UnixDomainSocketConnection caused when trying to
-      form an error message after a socket error.
-* 2.4.2
-  * Fixed a bug in pipeline that caused an exception while trying to
-      reconnect after a connection timeout.
-* 2.4.1
-  * Fixed a bug in the PythonParser if disconnect is called before connect.
-* 2.4.0
-  * WARNING: 2.4 contains several backwards incompatible changes.
-  * Completely refactored Connection objects. Moved much of the Redis
-      protocol packing for requests here, and eliminated the nasty dependencies
-      it had on the client to do AUTH and SELECT commands on connect.
-  * Connection objects now have a parser attribute. Parsers are responsible
-      for reading data Redis sends. Two parsers ship with redis-py: a
-      PythonParser and the HiRedis parser. redis-py will automatically use the
-      HiRedis parser if you have the Python hiredis module installed, otherwise
-      it will fall back to the PythonParser. You can force or the other, or even
-      an external one by passing the `parser_class` argument to ConnectionPool.
-  * Added a UnixDomainSocketConnection for users wanting to talk to the Redis
-      instance running on a local machine only. You can use this connection
-      by passing it to the `connection_class` argument of the ConnectionPool.
-  * Connections no longer derive from threading.local. See threading.local
-      note below.
-  * ConnectionPool has been completely refactored. The ConnectionPool now
-      maintains a list of connections. The redis-py client only hangs on to
-      a ConnectionPool instance, calling get_connection() anytime it needs to
-      send a command. When get_connection() is called, the command name and
-      any keys involved in the command are passed as arguments. Subclasses of
-      ConnectionPool could use this information to identify the shard the keys
-      belong to and return a connection to it. ConnectionPool also implements
-      disconnect() to force all connections in the pool to disconnect from
-      the Redis server.
-  * redis-py no longer support the SELECT command. You can still connect to
-      a specific database by specifying it when instantiating a client instance
-      or by creating a connection pool. If you need to talk to multiple
-      databases within your application, you should use a separate client
-      instance for each database you want to talk to.
-  * Completely refactored Publish/Subscribe support. The subscribe and listen
-      commands are no longer available on the redis-py Client class. Instead,
-      the `pubsub` method returns an instance of the PubSub class which contains
-      all publish/subscribe support. Note, you can still PUBLISH from the
-      redis-py client class if you desire.
-  * Removed support for all previously deprecated commands or options.
-  * redis-py no longer uses threading.local in any way. Since the Client
-      class no longer holds on to a connection, it's no longer needed. You can
-      now pass client instances between threads, and commands run on those
-      threads will retrieve an available connection from the pool, use it and
-      release it. It should now be trivial to use redis-py with eventlet or
-      greenlet.
-  * ZADD now accepts pairs of value=score keyword arguments. This should help
-      resolve the long standing #72. The older value and score arguments have
-      been deprecated in favor of the keyword argument style.
-  * Client instances now get their own copy of RESPONSE_CALLBACKS. The new
-      set_response_callback method adds a user defined callback to the instance.
-  * Support Jython, fixing #97. Thanks to Adam Vandenberg for the patch.
-  * Using __getitem__ now properly raises a KeyError when the key is not
-      found. Thanks Ionuț Arțăriși for the patch.
-  * Newer Redis versions return a LOADING message for some commands while
-      the database is loading from disk during server start. This could cause
-      problems with SELECT. We now force a socket disconnection prior to
-      raising a ResponseError so subsequent connections have to reconnect and
-      re-select the appropriate database. Thanks to Benjamin Anderson for
-      finding this and fixing.
-* 2.2.4
-  * WARNING: Potential backwards incompatible change - Changed order of
-      parameters of ZREVRANGEBYSCORE to match those of the actual Redis command.
-      This is only backwards-incompatible if you were passing max and min via
-      keyword args. If passing by normal args, nothing in user code should have
-      to change. Thanks Stéphane Angel for the fix.
-  * Fixed INFO to properly parse the Redis data correctly for both 2.2.x and
-      2.3+. Thanks Stéphane Angel for the fix.
-  * Lock objects now store their timeout value as a float. This allows floats
-      to be used as timeout values. No changes to existing code required.
-  * WATCH now supports multiple keys. Thanks Rich Schumacher.
-  * Broke out some code that was Python 2.4 incompatible. redis-py should
-      now be usable on 2.4, but this hasn't actually been tested. Thanks
-      Dan Colish for the patch.
-  * Optimized some code using izip and islice. Should have a pretty good
-      speed up on larger data sets. Thanks Dan Colish.
-  * Better error handling when submitting an empty mapping to HMSET. Thanks
-      Dan Colish.
-  * Subscription status is now reset after every (re)connection.
-* 2.2.3
-  * Added support for Hiredis. To use, simply "pip install hiredis" or
-      "easy_install hiredis". Thanks for Pieter Noordhuis for the hiredis-py
-      bindings and the patch to redis-py.
-  * The connection class is chosen based on whether hiredis is installed
-      or not. To force the use of the PythonConnection, simply create
-      your own ConnectionPool instance with the connection_class argument
-      assigned to to PythonConnection class.
-  * Added missing command ZREVRANGEBYSCORE. Thanks Jay Baird for the patch.
-  * The INFO command should be parsed correctly on 2.2.x server versions
-      and is backwards compatible with older versions. Thanks Brett Hoerner.
-* 2.2.2
-  * Fixed a bug in ZREVRANK where retrieving the rank of a value not in
-      the zset would raise an error.
-  * Fixed a bug in Connection.send where the errno import was getting
-      overwritten by a local variable.
-  * Fixed a bug in SLAVEOF when promoting an existing slave to a master.
-  * Reverted change of download URL back to redis-VERSION.tar.gz. 2.2.1's
-      change of this actually broke Pypi for Pip installs. Sorry!
-* 2.2.1
-  * Changed archive name to redis-py-VERSION.tar.gz to not conflict
-      with the Redis server archive.
-* 2.2.0
-  * Implemented SLAVEOF
-  * Implemented CONFIG as config_get and config_set
-  * Implemented GETBIT/SETBIT
-  * Implemented BRPOPLPUSH
-  * Implemented STRLEN
-  * Implemented PERSIST
-  * Implemented SETRANGE