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This PR closes #287 and initial support for #263

Summary

This PR adds initial support for Valkey version detection and uses it to gate Valkey 9.1-specific behavior in the operator.

Changes

  • Detects the effective Valkey image version from spec.image and stores it in status. Floating tags (latest, digest-pinned) fallback to "unknown" and it will drop 9.1+ directives.
  • When user set directive is dropped (version too old or undeterminable), the operators updates ConfigurationWarning condition with reason UnSupportedDirective and emits warning event.

Implementation

  • Added version parsing utilities using github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3.
  • versionGatedConfig map (directive -> min supported version), gatedUserkeystoSupress filters gated user directives out of rendered valkey.conf

Limitations

  • Version detection relies on parsing the image tag. If the version cannot be determined (for example, latest), version-gated features are skipped.
  • This PR only provides the initial framework for version-gated configuration.
  • Only tls-auto-reload-interval is currently listed in versionGatedConfig. Future any directives can extend the map.

Testing

  • Added unit tests for version parsing and version-gated configuration rendering.
  • Added e2e tests to verify gated directives are dropped when its not supported by detected version.

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Before submitting the PR make sure the following are checked:

  • This Pull Request is related to one issue.
  • Commit message explains what changed and why
  • Tests are added or updated.
  • Documentation files are updated. Behavior when version is unknown is documented and consistent.
  • I have run pre-commit locally (pre-commit run --all-files or hooks on commit)
  • At least one feature above the 9.0 baseline is wired through the gate validated using 9.1.0 feature tls-auto-reload-interval.

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Today, the config gets dropped if the user specified it but not against a supporting version. Could we have some observability to feedback when this happens? #271 introduced a ConfigurationWarning - perhaps we can reuse that.

Is it necessary to set the default value in the config when it is omitted? We don't do this for any other configs.

Is a new Status field ValkeyVersion necessary? It's not being consumed by anything in this PR - or was it added for another reason?

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this is the version-gating shape from #287, reading the tag and bailing to unversioned for latest/digest, good. answering your three:

observability / reusing ConfigurationWarning: yes, that's the right home, with one distinction. fire it only when the user explicitly set a gated directive in spec.config and it got dropped because the image is too old or undeterminable, that's the surprise worth surfacing. don't fire it for the operator's own auto-default being skipped, the user never asked for that. a reason like ConfigVersionGated with a message naming the directive, the required version, and the detected one, set idempotently and removed once it's back in range, matches how GracePeriodTooShort behaves in #271.

the auto-default: your consistency instinct is fair, and it honestly cuts against what i argued on #287. the deciding question is whether the operator wants to be opinionated about turning cert auto-reload on for TLS clusters (keep the default, but make it observable and documented as operator-set), or stay a thin config passthrough like it is for every other directive (drop the 86400, only gate user-set values). i'd lean passthrough now: least surprising, removes the "why is there a config i didn't set" question, and a user who wants auto-reload sets it explicitly with the gate protecting them on <9.1. the cost is TLS users don't get it for free, which is a fine follow-up if there's demand.

status.valkeyVersion: as written it's populated from the tag and the gate also reads the tag, so the field is a parallel copy nothing consumes, which is what you're seeing. where it earns its keep is as the runtime-detected version from INFO server, which is what rescues a latest or floating tag that actually resolved to 9.1, the tag can't tell you that. so either wire it now as the authoritative source with the tag as fallback (gate prefers status, falls back to tag), or defer the field to the PR that reads INFO and consumes it. shipping it tag-derived and unread is the one option i'd avoid, it's API surface with no consumer.

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This change adds image-version compatibility gating for user configuration, omits unsupported directives from generated Valkey configuration, and reports configuration warnings. Two failures remain: the version decision is not exposed through ValkeyClusterStatus, and digest-pinned image references are accepted according to their tag rather than the image content Kubernetes pulls.

The earlier reports of overwritten configuration warnings, warnings without user configuration, controller compilation failures, incorrect prerelease comparisons, one-second TLS test waits, and nil status dereferences were exercised and disproved by the current code.

Confidence Score: 2/5

The change should not merge until image-version compatibility decisions are made observable and digest-pinned image references fail closed.

Two blocking failures remain: status omits the compatibility decision for supported images, and the digest handling path can enable configuration for image contents whose version has not been established.

Files Needing Attention: api/v1alpha1/valkeycluster_types.go, internal/controller/config.go, internal/controller/valkeycluster_controller.go, internal/valkey/version.go

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A configuration-integrity failure remains in image version gating. A user can provide a reference with a version-bearing tag and a digest for different image content; the operator trusts the tag while Kubernetes pulls the digest-selected image, allowing unsupported configuration to be rendered.

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What T-Rex did

  • T-Rex produced proofs for posted P1 findings and linked them to the corresponding review comments.
  • A focused Gomega executable verified TLS wait behavior and confirmed the TLS waits inherit the two-minute suite timeout rather than the one-second default.
  • A focused Go test demonstrated that concurrent configuration warnings are aggregated rather than overwritten.
  • Focused controller tests showed that warnings for TLS-related options are limited to user-supplied gated directives, with no warning when absent and an unsupported-directive warning when provided.
  • The version-gate reproduction showed RC1 prerelease does not meet the minimum while final 9.1.0 does, validating the gating logic for prerelease versus final releases.

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  1. api/v1alpha1/valkeycluster_types.go, line 545-582 (link)

    P1 Version decision missing from status

    The controller determines the effective Valkey version for compatibility gating, but ValkeyClusterStatus has no field that exposes that result. A supported image such as valkey/valkey:9.1.0 produces no warning, leaving API consumers unable to determine which version was detected or why a version-gated directive was accepted. Persist a documented effective image/version or detection-state field during reconciliation and include it in the CRD schema.

    Artifacts

    Source of the Valkey image-version status contract test

    • Captured the exact Go test source that exercised controller version detection, warning application, and serialized public status for both image outcomes; it is the executed reproduction.

    Supported Valkey image status contract output

    • Executed the contract test with valkey/valkey:9.1.0; it detected 9.1.0, emitted no warning, and serialized no imageVersion field, demonstrating the missing supported-image status result.

    Unknown Valkey image status contract output

    • Executed the contract test with valkey/valkey:latest; it emitted ConfigurationWarning=True with UnsupportedConfigDirective but serialized no imageVersion field, demonstrating that unknown detection is only available in message text.

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  2. General comment

    P1 ValkeyCluster status omits the version used for compatibility decisions

    • Bug
      • The controller detects 9.1.0 for a supported valkey/valkey:9.1.0 image, but the API-visible serialized status is {} and contains no image-version field. With valkey/valkey:latest, it emits a ConfigurationWarning that says no version could be detected, yet status still has no structured detected/effective version outcome. Consumers therefore cannot determine the compatibility decision in the normal supported case, where no warning exists.
    • Cause
      • ValkeyClusterStatus (api/v1alpha1/valkeycluster_types.go:545-582) and its generated CRD schema do not define an image-version status property. versionGateConfigWarnings (internal/controller/config.go:164-190) computes version detection locally and only uses it to construct a condition message; updateStatus does not persist this value.
    • Fix
      • Add a documented structured status field for the effective image/version decision (for example, effective image plus detected version and/or detection state), regenerate the CRD/deepcopy artifacts, populate it during reconciliation using the same effective-image/version parser, and add supported/unknown reconciliation assertions.

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  3. General comment

    P1 Digest-pinned images pass version gating based on their mutable tag

    • Bug
      • A reference such as valkey/valkey:9.1.0@sha256:<older-image-digest> is parsed as version 9.1.0, and MeetsMinVersion(..., 9.1.0-rc1) returns true. Kubernetes resolves the pull by digest, so the gate can enable 9.1-only configuration for older image content.
    • Cause
      • imageTag removes the digest portion at internal/valkey/version.go:58-60; VersionFromImage parses the remaining tag and MeetsMinVersion accepts it at internal/valkey/version.go:75-84 without establishing that the digest content matches the tag.
    • Fix
      • Treat any reference containing both a tag and digest as version-unknown for configuration gating, unless the implementation resolves and verifies the digest’s image version from trusted metadata. Add a regression case asserting that a tagged+digest reference does not meet the minimum version.

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flagging the ConfigurationWarning collision greptile caught (controller.go:180), since it's the condition i added in #271 and the reuse here trips over how it's keyed.

meta.SetStatusCondition keys by condition type, so the version-gate path setting ConfigurationWarning/UnsupportedConfigDirective overwrites the GracePeriodTooShort one set just above when a cluster hits both. it's worse on the clear side: my #271 code clears with removeConditionIfReason(ConfigurationWarning, GracePeriodTooShort), which no-ops once the reason is UnsupportedConfigDirective, and the version-gate clear has the mirror problem. so the two concerns silently stomp each other's warning and each other's clear.

a single condition type with a single reason field can't hold two independent warnings, which is the real lesson of reusing it. two ways out:

  • roll-up: compute ConfigurationWarning once, from all the configuration concerns together (grace period + version gating + whatever's next), set it True with a combined message and remove it when none fire. keeps the "one config-health signal" intent, at the cost of a reason that represents "one or more" (generic reason, detail in the message).
  • separate types: GracePeriodWarning and UnsupportedConfigDirective as distinct conditions, each set and cleared independently. more idiomatic, at the cost of the extra type.

i'd lean roll-up to honor the reuse, but either fixes it. the thing to avoid is two independent setCondition(ConfigurationWarning, ...) writers keyed by type.

separately, greptile's config.go:177 one is the point from my earlier comment: versionGateConfigWarnings iterates every gated directive without checking spec.Config, so the default 9.0.0 image warns UnsupportedConfigDirective even when the user set nothing. it should only warn for directives the user actually put in spec.config and that got dropped, otherwise every pre-9.1 cluster carries a warning it can't act on.

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There is a potential race condition that goes like this:

  1. User adds a version gated config, and bumps the image to a version that supports that config
  2. ConfigMap is generated with the version gated config, this propagates to all pods
  3. Operator starts to roll ValkeyNodes
  4. Another ValkeyNode that has not yet had its spec updated, is restarted for whatever reason - its Spec.Image is still the old one
  5. Restarted ValkeyNode is crash-loop-back-off because it cannot read the version gated config

Therefore I think we should include docs to say:

  • Update image in one change, wait for roll to complete
  • Add the version gated config in another change

Outside of that, I'm thinking how we can extend this functionality beyond configurations, such the operator gating features, etc., based on what version is being run.

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The operator now parses Valkey image versions, gates tls-auto-reload-interval at Valkey 9.1.0, filters unsupported directives, aggregates configuration warnings, and preserves degraded status when ACL application fails.

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Configuration and cluster status

Layer / File(s) Summary
Valkey image version detection
go.mod, internal/valkey/*, internal/controller/utils.go
Added image tag parsing, minimum-version checks, and default image resolution.
Version-gated directive rendering
internal/controller/config.go, internal/controller/config_test.go
Added gating for tls-auto-reload-interval. Unsupported directives are omitted and reported with version details.
Configuration warning conditions and events
internal/controller/status.go, internal/controller/status_test.go, api/v1alpha1/valkeycluster_types.go, docs/status-conditions.md
Added warning aggregation, condition updates, duplicate-event suppression, and new warning reasons.
Cluster reconcile behavior and validation
internal/controller/valkeycluster_controller.go, internal/controller/status_test.go, test/e2e/valkeycluster_tls_test.go, docs/valkeycluster.md
Preserved Degraded for failed ACL application, resolved exporter defaults, updated the exporter image, and added TLS version-gate integration coverage and documentation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ValkeyCluster
  participant Reconciler
  participant VersionFromImage
  participant ConfigRenderer
  participant KubernetesStatus

  ValkeyCluster->>Reconciler: Reconcile image and configuration
  Reconciler->>VersionFromImage: Parse effective image version
  VersionFromImage-->>ConfigRenderer: Return version compatibility
  ConfigRenderer-->>Reconciler: Render config and collect warnings
  Reconciler->>KubernetesStatus: Apply warning condition and event
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This PR gates Valkey directives based on image-version text and changes readiness reporting around ACL updates, but the current head still has tests that do not compile and can report a cluster ready before requested credentials are live; digest-pinned images may also receive an incompatible directive. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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In `@docs/status-conditions.md`:
- Around line 136-137: Update the UnsupportedConfigDirective documentation to
include directives dropped when the Valkey version cannot be determined from
spec.image, not only when a detected version lacks support. Update the
MultipleConfigurationWarnings text to state that the condition reason lists all
active warning reasons, rather than referring to the condition message.

In `@docs/valkeycluster.md`:
- Around line 148-152: Update docs/valkeycluster.md lines 148-152 to state that
both unsupported and indeterminate image versions suppress the directive and
produce a ConfigurationWarning. Update docs/valkeycluster.md line 376 to replace
“older images” with “unsupported or indeterminate images” and capitalize “It”.

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- Around line 167-170: Update the ConfigurationWarning construction around
effectiveImage and versionDetail in internal/controller/config.go: when
cluster.Spec.Image is empty, identify DefaultImage as the image source;
otherwise retain spec.image. Add the requested empty-spec.image test with an
explicit tls-auto-reload-interval in internal/controller/config_test.go lines
192-210, asserting that the warning names the default image.

In `@test/e2e/valkeycluster_tls_test.go`:
- Around line 341-345: Update the pre-gate manifest’s TLS configuration to use
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Ran the failure this gate prevents rather than taking it on trust. Setting tls-auto-reload-interval: "3600" on a 9.0.0 image gives:

*** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR (Version 9.0.0) ***
Reading the configuration file, at line 2
>>> 'tls-auto-reload-interval 3600'
Bad directive or wrong number of arguments

One node down, cluster to Reconciling, and the roll stops there rather than carrying the mistake to the rest. Removing the directive again recovered the cluster on its own in about 105 seconds. So the problem is real and the remediation completes without help, which is worth knowing since it means the gate is preventing an outage rather than papering over one.

Two things on scope and one detail.

The gate covers user directives only. gatedUserKeysToSuppress filters spec.config, while getBaseConfig is untouched and renders unconditionally. That holds together today because the baseline is 9.0 and everything in the base map is 9.0-safe, but #263 frames the gap as features needing a newer minor than the baseline, and the first operator-owned 9.1 directive would go straight past this. Worth saying whether that is deliberate for the initial framework.

Release candidates are flattened to GA. imageVersionRE goes to the trouble of matching -rcN, and then semver.New(parsed.Major(), parsed.Minor(), parsed.Patch(), "", "") discards it, so 9.1.0-rc1 gates exactly like 9.1.0. Keeping the prerelease would make an RC compare below GA, dropping -rcN from the regex would make RC tags read as undeterminable, and either is defensible. Silently treating them as GA is the one option that is not stated anywhere.

The doc line telling people to apply the image change and let it roll before adding a gated directive is the honest mitigation for the shared ConfigMap window, and worth keeping prominent.

…supported config cases and also fixed rc1 tags

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Ran the failure this gate prevents rather than taking it on trust. Setting tls-auto-reload-interval: "3600" on a 9.0.0 image gives:

*** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR (Version 9.0.0) ***
Reading the configuration file, at line 2
>>> 'tls-auto-reload-interval 3600'
Bad directive or wrong number of arguments

One node down, cluster to Reconciling, and the roll stops there rather than carrying the mistake to the rest. Removing the directive again recovered the cluster on its own in about 105 seconds. So the problem is real and the remediation completes without help, which is worth knowing since it means the gate is preventing an outage rather than papering over one.

On Valkey 9.0.0, tls-auto-reload-interval in valkey.conf is a hard parse failure (FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR), which causes the server to crash-loop and the cluster to remain in Reconciling.
With version gating, the operator drops unsupported user-set directives from the rendered valkey.conf, sets ConfigurationWarning / UnsupportedConfigDirective, and the cluster still reaches Ready. The warning does not block Ready.

The E2E test now verifies this behavior on a pre-9.1 image: status.state == Ready, spec.config.tls-auto-reload-interval remains set, the warning is present.

Two things on scope and one detail.

The gate covers user directives only. gatedUserKeysToSuppress filters spec.config, while getBaseConfig is untouched and renders unconditionally. That holds together today because the baseline is 9.0 and everything in the base map is 9.0-safe, but #263 frames the gap as features needing a newer minor than the baseline, and the first operator-owned 9.1 directive would go straight past this. Worth saying whether that is deliberate for the initial framework.

Agreed, this is deliberate for the initial framework. gatedUserKeysToSuppress filters only spec.config, while getBaseConfig remains unchanged and renders unconditionally. The current base configuration is 9.0-compatible, so this is safe for now. If we introduce operator-owned directives that require 9.1+, we should extend the gating framework to cover those as well.

Release candidates are flattened to GA. imageVersionRE goes to the trouble of matching -rcN, and then semver.New(parsed.Major(), parsed.Minor(), parsed.Patch(), "", "") discards it, so 9.1.0-rc1 gates exactly like 9.1.0. Keeping the prerelease would make an RC compare below GA, dropping -rcN from the regex would make RC tags read as undeterminable, and either is defensible. Silently treating them as GA is the one option that is not stated anywhere.

Agreed. I updated VersionFromImage to return the parsed semver directly (return parsed) instead of reconstructing it with semver.New(parsed.Major(), parsed.Minor(), parsed.Patch(), "", ""), so the prerelease information is preserved. For tls-auto-reload-interval, the minimum supported version is now 9.1.0-rc1, and semver comparison correctly treats prereleases as lower than the corresponding GA release. Unit tests have been updated accordingly.

The doc line telling people to apply the image change and let it roll before adding a gated directive is the honest mitigation for the shared ConfigMap window, and worth keeping prominent.

updated docs.

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LGTM.

Another issue might be if valkey adds additional enum-options to enum configs in newer version.
It looks like a older valkey version that don't know about that option will crash with *** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR *** We probably need to improve user docs closer to GA.

// versionGatedConfig maps user-facing config directives to the minimum Valkey
// version that understands them.
var versionGatedConfig = map[string]*semver.Version{
"tls-auto-reload-interval": semver.MustParse("9.1.0-rc1"),

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How do we know which version introduced a specific config, is there source similar to commands?
E.g. valkey repo/src/commands/x.json. These only uses full version like "since": "9.2.0"

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I checked the Valkey source, Valkey has a machine-readable since field for commands, but there does not appear to be an equivalent source for individual valkey.conf directives.

For configuration directives, however, they are registered directly in src/config.c. For example, tls-auto-reload-interval is defined as:

createIntConfig("tls-auto-reload-interval", NULL, MODIFIABLE_CONFIG,
                0, INT_MAX,
                server.tls_ctx_config.auto_reload_interval,
                0, INTEGER_CONFIG, NULL, applyTlsCfg),

need to revisit on this if there is better way. opened 1 issue.

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I now heard that there is a new command in Valkey 9.2 CONFIG INFO, but it wont help (no since info)

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Re-reviewed at 117c54c. All three points from the previous pass are addressed.

The scope note is in the docs, and it says the right thing: gating covers spec.config only, and a future operator-owned directive needing a newer minor has to be gated where it is added.

VersionFromImage returns the parsed version now, so the prerelease survives, and the minimum moved to 9.1.0-rc1 with a test for it.

I checked that the minimum is the correct one rather than just a mechanical change. tls-auto-reload-interval is present in the 9.1.0-rc1 tag, and in rc2 and GA, so rc1 is the earliest release that understands the directive and the gate admits exactly the right set.

Build and make test are green on this head.

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LGTM.

Another issue might be if valkey adds additional enum-options to enum configs in newer version. It looks like a older valkey version that don't know about that option will crash with *** FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR *** We probably need to improve user docs closer to GA.

I opened follow-up issues for these cases:

#422 — Prevent Valkey FATAL CONFIG FILE ERROR when spec.config exceeds image version
#423 — Guard unknown enum config values on older Valkey images

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@bjosv can u please review again

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Thanks!

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bjosv merged commit d8fef4a into valkey-io:main Sep 4, 2026
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Expect(warnings[0].message).To(ContainSubstring("no version could be detected from spec.image \"valkey/valkey:latest\""))
})

It("versionGateConfigWarnings names the default image when spec.image is empty", func() {

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This test fails when changing the default image in #326, should we remove it in #326?
Maybe you have some other ideas?

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yes this test needs to be removed for newer versions of default image or we can update it to mock versionConfig


	It("versionGateConfigWarnings names the default image when spec.image is empty", func() {
		versionGatedConfig["mock-higher-version-config-key"] = semver.MustParse("99.0.0")
		DeferCleanup(func() {
			delete(versionGatedConfig, "mock-higher-version-config-key")
		})

		cluster := newTLSCluster("", map[string]string{
			"mock-higher-version-config": "mock-value",
		})
		warnings := versionGateConfigWarnings(cluster)
		Expect(warnings).To(HaveLen(1))
		Expect(warnings[0].message).To(ContainSubstring("default image"))
		Expect(warnings[0].message).To(ContainSubstring(DefaultImage))
		Expect(warnings[0].message).NotTo(ContainSubstring("spec.image"))
	})

bjosv added a commit to Nordix/valkey-operator that referenced this pull request Sep 4, 2026
The version-gated config map (added in valkey-io#307) was maintained by hand,
which can fall behind as new Valkey versions add directives. Deriving it
from the Valkey sources keeps it complete and current.

Add hack/gen_version_gated_config.py, which scans src/config.c across
Valkey release tags and emits internal/controller/version_gated_config.go
(directive -> minimum Valkey version). For each Valkey minor it reads one
release: the final X.Y.0 if released, otherwise the newest release
candidate (so users testing an rc image still get gating); once the final
ships it takes over and its versions replace the rc ones.

Patch releases are skipped so a directive is attributed to the minor that
introduced it, not to an older patch that backported it (e.g. the 9.1
feature tls-auto-reload-interval also ships in 8.0.8). HIDDEN_CONFIG
directives are also skipped: they are internal, absent from CONFIG GET,
and not a supported user-facing setting.

The script formats its output with gofmt and offers --check to verify the
committed file is current. Remove the hand-written map from config.go and
document regeneration in the developer guide.

Signed-off-by: Björn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>
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(feat) Support tls-auto-reload-interval (Valkey 9.1+)

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