#3817·redis-py

REPLICA commands missing in Sentinel

Author: minrkCreated Oct 26, 2025Updated Aug 3, 2026

Version: redis-py 5.0.8 , redis-server 7.2.5

Platform: macOS

Description:

Redis 5.0 deprecated SLAVE in most contexts in favor of REPLICA. The Python API and docs reflect this in many places, but it's still missing in some, particularly the Sentinel APIs, which do not implement the REPLICA commands or method names, only using the deprecated names.

I would expect these methods/classes to be defined, in order to match the redis server Sentinel API and documentation.

  • Sentinel.replica_for
  • .discover_replicas
  • .filter_replicas
  • SentinelConnectionPool.rotate_replicas
  • redis.sentinel.ReplicaNotFound

Also related:

  • Redis.client_kill_filter appears to not accept type=REPLICA

(reopening #3371, which was erroneously closed by a bot)