Upgrade urgency HIGH: This release includes CVE fix for valkey-check-aof tool, we recommend you
apply as soon as possible if you use the tool.

Security fixes

Bug fixes

Properly escape double quotes and backslash in MONITOR command (#2036)
Fix high CPU usage when fetching a random element in skewed sparse hash table (#2085)
Fix a bug that allowed clients to process commands when the server has paused command processing (#2109)
Fix a crash where the wrong slot is used when processing sharded pubsub unsubscribe events (#2137)
Fix a crash when a module attempts to write auxiliary data with AOF enabled (#2132)
Fix a bug where the engine may crash when establishing new outbound TLS connections (#2140)
Fix a bug where a cluster bus packet may be incorrectly marked as invalid (#2144)
Fix a bug where CLUSTER SLOTS/NODES information can be stale after updating node port/tls-port (#2186)
Fix a bug where replica in cluster mode can't finish failover when config epoch is outdated (#2178)
Fix a bug to avoid CLIENT UNBLOCK command to unblock paused clients (#2117)

Full Changelog: 8.1.1...8.1.2