2.1.0-RC1

• This is a release candidate for 2.1.0 release.
• This release will be built from commit 2605ed0 from the master branch.
• The version number will be set to 2.0.99 to allow for upgrade but not to collide with 2.1.0 release.
• This release will NOT be uploaded to pypi. It is only accessible here.
• This RC release will be out for about 1 week and then a proper release will be cut and pushed.
• All changes and commits can be inspected here 2.0.0...master

Release notes for release

2.1.0 (May **, 2020)

* Add new config option for Client and Pipeline classes to controll how many attempts will be made before bailing out from a ClusterDownError.
  Use "cluster_down_retry_attempts=<int>" when creating the client class to controll this behaviour.
* Updated redis-py compatbile version to support any version in the major version 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x., 3.4.x, 3.5.x (#326)
  It is always recommended to use the latest version of redis-py to avoid issues and compatiblity problems.
* Fixed bug preventing reinitialization after getting MOVED errors
* Add testing of redis-esrver 6.0 versions to travis and unit tests
* Add python 2.7 compatiblity note about deprecation and upcomming changes in python 2.7 support for this lib
* Updated tests and cluster tests versions of the same methods to latest tests from upstream redis-py package
* Reorganized tests and how cluster specific tests is written and run over the upstream version of the same test to make it easier
  and much faster to update and keep them in sync over time going into the future (#368)
* Python 3.5.x or higher is now required if running on a python 3 version
* Removed the monkeypatching of RedisCluster, ClusterPubSub & ClusterPipeline class names into the "redis" python package namespace during runtime.
  They are now exposed in the "rediscluster" namespace to mimic the same feature from redis-py
* cluster_down_retry_attempts can now be configured to any value when creating RedisCluster instance
* Creating RedisCluster from unix socket url:s has been disabled
* Patch the from_url method to use the corret cluster version of the same Connection class
* ConnectionError and TimeoutError is now handled seperately in the main execute loop to better handle each case (#363)
* Update scan_iter custom cluster implementation
* Improve description_format handling for connection classes to simplify how they work
* Implement new connection pool ClusterBlockingConnectionPool (#347)
* Nodemanager initiailize should now handle usernames properly (#365)
* PubSub tests has been all been disabled
* New feature, host_port_remap. Send in a remapping configuration to RedisCluster instance where the nodes configuration recieved from the redis cluster can be altered to allow for connection in certain circumstances. See new section in clients.rst in docs/ for usage example.
* When a slot is not covered by the cluster, it will not raise SlotNotCoveredError instead of the old generic RedisClusterException. The client will not attempt to rebuild the cluster layout a few times before giving up and raising that exception to the user. (#350)
* CLIENT SETNAME is now possible to use from the client instance. For setting the name for all connections from the client by default, see issue #802 in redis-py repo for the change that was implemented in redis-py 3.4.0.