Closes #23110: Upgrade to redis 8.1

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

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