Redis has announced the second milestone of its advanced and performant offering, Redis 8. The latest version offers significant performance improvements compared to previous versions. Latency for commonly used commands such as ZADD, SMEMBERS, and HGETALL have been reduced by up to 36%, 28%, and 10% respectively. Additionally, the new release includes two scaling features of the Redis Query Engine that were previously only available on Redis Cloud and Redis Software. These enhancements make Redis Community Edition (CE) the fastest vector database available for free.