replace with a '6.0.0' literal when Redis 6 is GA

fixes #1304
fixes #1280

The `EXECABORT` error type was added in Redis 2.6.5 and is returned from an
`EXEC` command to in...

fix: https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/issues/1296

fixes #1298

Fixes #1268

This allows memoryview instances to be passed to Redis command args that
expect strings or bytes...

When waiting to acquire a lock, the Lock object will sleep until
the lock is acquired or until b...

Fixes #1279

Ref #1274

If an exception occurs inside the __del__ method, it should be reported
to the developer. Not do...

Helps identify problematic or buggy code. When a warning is displayed,
it should be analyzed an...

It now describe what is deprecated and displays for the callers line by
using stacklevel=2.

The...

* make `hset` command support multi field/value pairs.

see: https://redis.io/commands/hset

...

After further thought this was a bad idea. Just because two connection
pools share the same conn...

This helps those poor souls that specify all their connection options as
non-keyword arguments.
...

Prior to ACL support, redis-py ignored the username component of
Connection URLs. With ACL suppo...

Better thread and fork safety for ConnectionPool and BlockingConnectionPool

Fixed #1220

Fixed #1255

'ssl_check_hostname' tells SSL Connections to whether to require the TCP
hostname to match the h...

fixes #1214

Client instances and Connection pools now accept "client_name" as an optional
argument. If suppl...

PubSub objects are now context managers.

Prior to this, pipeline instances used __len__() which returns the number
of queued commands on ...

Python 3.4 has been EOL since 2019-03-18.

Removing from the test matrix helps reduce testing re...

Closes #1252

While numbers are frequently singletons as an optimization, it is not
guaranteed by the languag...

Starting with wheel 0.32.0 (2018-09-29), the "license_file" option is
deprecated.

The wheel ...

tox can now always be used as the test entry point and allows for
contributors to easily test t...

* Fix TypeError by passing optional decode_responses keyword argument down to parse_slowlog_get()

Add equality test on Redis client and connection pool

Sorry, I'm a pendant.

Fixed `README.rst's` `code-block` directive `lang` name typo.

Fix test suite with Redis versions pre-5.0.0

check exception.args rather than exception.message. exception.message
was deprecated prior to Py...

Fix SSL regression introduced in 3.3.9

The wrapper introduced to handle SSL timeout errors in P...

Fixes SSL read timeouts in Python 2.7

The ssl module in Python 2.7 raises timeouts as ssl.SSLEr...

The client section of MONITOR output varies for TCP connections, unix socket
connections and com...

Prior versions of 3.3.x could potentially raise a raw socket.error
(or one of its subclasses) in...

Fixes #1200

Fix an issue where socket.timeout errors could be handled by the wrong
exception handler in Pyth...

versions 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 could potentially hide ConnectionErrors
on Python 2.7. This chan...

versions 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 could potentially hide ConnectionErrors
on Python 2.7. This chan...

The SSL module includes in Python versions < 2.7.9 does not include
the SSLWantReadError or SSLW...

Commands sent on pubsub connections (like subscribe, psusbscribe, etc.) do
not wait for the serv...

Ref #1197

Fixes #1197

The PubSubWorkerThread now uses a `threading.Event` to control its life cycle.

The `Redis` class and the `ConnectionPool` class now support the
"health_check_interval=N" optio...

This has multiple uses:
* Single connection clients will not be considered threadsafe. This me...

Fixes #1191

This replaces the work in 3.2.0 to use nonblocking sockets instead of
selectors. Selectors prove...

Users can now specify --redis-url when running the test suite to choose a specific server.

AuthenticationError is now a subclass of ConnectionError, which means
the connection will be shu...

Pass encoding_errors setting to hiredis (>=1.0.0).

Fixes #1161

this change allows users to call client.execute_command('info') or
client.execute_command('INFO'...

The Token class was needed when supporting Python 2.6. Now that we've
dropped support for 2.6, w...

Fix for https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/issues/1135

Resolves a race condition found in the PubSubWorkerThread. Prior to this
change is was possible ...

Connection Reading Socket Error Enhancement

to Exception message for easy debug

Change-Id: Ifaa3bef0c8daf3dd2c60b143746b75a26c182a88

miss positional argument in README example

raise TypeError.

Unregister socket from ready_poller

It looks like there was a typo in PollSelector.close that made it
unregister from the read_polle...

Fix for https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/issues/1135