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Released changes to the Limit Req plugin (`limit-req`), newest release first.
22 released changes name limit-req, newest release first — 8 in Apache APISIX, 14 in API7 Gateway. Each row links to the change itself.
| Release | Date | Type | Change |
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| 3.10.4 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-07-27 | Feature | Added Redis connection keepalive settings (redis_keepalive_timeout and redis_keepalive_pool) to the Redis and Redis Cluster policies in Limit Conn, Limit Req, and AI Cache, so operators can tune idle timeout and conne… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.10.4 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-07-27 | Fix | Limit Conn and Limit Req: Fixed issue: Redis connections were not returned to the keepalive pool, so every request opened a new Redis connection and the configured keepalive settings had no effect. Connections are now… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.10.2 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-06-29 | Fix | Limit Request: Fixed issue: The rate-limit counter was keyed so that a limit attached to a shared resource (such as a Consumer) counted each route separately instead of sharing one bucket. The counter is now keyed by… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.10.2 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-06-29 | Change | limit-req: redis_password (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.10.1 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-06-15 | Fix | Fixed issue: Redis connections were pooled by address only, so two plugin configurations pointing at the same Redis server with different databases, credentials, or TLS settings could reuse each other's connections —… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.10.1 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-06-15 | Fix | Fixed issue: Under concurrent load, the Redis-backed rate limit could be exceeded because the read and write were not atomic. Enforcement now uses a single atomic operation. (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.17 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-07-28 | Feature | Added Redis connection keepalive settings (redis_keepalive_timeout and redis_keepalive_pool) to the Redis and Redis Cluster policies in Limit Conn, Limit Req, and AI Cache, so operators can tune idle timeout and conne… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.17 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-07-28 | Fix | Limit Conn and Limit Req: Fixed issue: Redis connections were not returned to the keepalive pool, so every request opened a new Redis connection and the configured keepalive settings had no effect. Connections are now… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.16 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-07-10 | Change | limit-req: redis_password (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.14 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-06-15 | Fix | Rate limiting (Limit Count, Limit Req, Limit Conn): Fixed issue: Redis connections that differed only by database number or credentials could share the same keepalive connection pool, so a connection could be reused a… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.11 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-04-30 | Feature | All plugins now support $secret:// and $env:// references in any configuration field automatically. Previously, only a handful of plugins (jwt-auth, openid-connect, limit-count, authz-keycloak, csrf, limit-req, limit-… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.8 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-04-07 | Fix | AI Rate Limiting, Limit Conn, Limit Req: Fixed issue: $env:// and $secret:// references in Redis host configuration were passed as literal strings instead of being resolved to their actual values, causing Redis connec… (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.9.0 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2026-01-06 | Feature | Limit Conn/Limit Req: Supported using Redis and Redis Cluster as the rate limiting data storage backend. (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
| 3.2.16.3 (opens in API7 Gateway docs) | 2024-10-21 | Change | Improved rate limiting related plugins to be more flexible, allowed for consumer-specific rate limits on a per-service/route basis. For details, see Limit Count Plugin and Limit Req Plugin. (opens in API7 Gateway docs) |
