This is Redis 2.3.x. It was forked from 2.2 branch a few weeks ago, and is going to be the playground for many new developments, especially related to replacing the VM with something better. VM is already completely removed from this release, and instead diskstore was implemented. You can read more about it here: http://groups.google.com/group/redis-db/browse_thread/thread/d444bc786689bde9 This Redis version is not intented for production environments. Cheers, Salvatore