From 74fbc90c69e810acbbca01227d3538640c3ecfb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Stretch <jstretch@netboxlabs.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Closes #23110: Upgrade to redis 8.1

---
 base_requirements.txt | 3 +--
 requirements.txt      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base_requirements.txt b/base_requirements.txt
index 08d1e4b9c..9bdc8a197 100644
--- a/base_requirements.txt
+++ b/base_requirements.txt
@@ -143,8 +143,7 @@ PyYAML
 
 # redis-py
 # https://github.com/redis/redis-py
-# Default protocol changes to RESP3 in v8.0; see #22388
-redis<8.0
+redis
 
 # Requests
 # https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/main/HISTORY.md
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3d32d7d78..eed71a6dd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ nh3==0.3.7
 Pillow==12.3.0
 psycopg[c,pool]==3.3.5
 PyYAML==6.0.3
-redis==7.4.1
+redis==8.1.0
 requests==2.34.2
 rq==2.12.0
 social-auth-app-django==6.0.1