4.18.0

Features

• Added ability to use credential providers to supply
  authentication details when establishing connections
  to the server
• Added support for hash field expiry commands introduced
  in redis 7.4:
  • hexpire
  • hexpireat
  • hpexpire
  • hpexpireat
  • hpersist
  • hexpiretime
  • hpexpiretime
  • httl
• Added support for maxage parameter in client_kill method.

Compatibility

• Added support for python 3.13 wheels
• Dropped support for python 3.8
• Dropped support for pypy 3.8
• Added test coverage for pypy 3.10
• Added test coverage for redis 7.4.x
• Added test coverage against redict servers
• Added test coverage for Valkey 7.0 & 8.0