diff --git a/7.2-rc/Dockerfile b/7.2-rc/Dockerfile
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+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+
+# add our user and group first to make sure their IDs get assigned consistently, regardless of whatever dependencies get added
+RUN groupadd -r -g 999 redis && useradd -r -g redis -u 999 redis
+
+# grab gosu for easy step-down from root
+# https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases
+ENV GOSU_VERSION 1.16
+RUN set -eux; \
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates dirmngr gnupg wget; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	dpkgArch="$(dpkg --print-architecture | awk -F- '{ print $NF }')"; \
+	wget -O /usr/local/bin/gosu "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$dpkgArch"; \
+	wget -O /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$dpkgArch.asc"; \
+	export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; \
+	gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys B42F6819007F00F88E364FD4036A9C25BF357DD4; \
+	gpg --batch --verify /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc /usr/local/bin/gosu; \
+	gpgconf --kill all; \
+	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc; \
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gosu; \
+	gosu --version; \
+	gosu nobody true
+
+ENV REDIS_VERSION 7.2-rc1
+ENV REDIS_DOWNLOAD_URL https://github.com/redis/redis/archive/7.2-rc1.tar.gz
+ENV REDIS_DOWNLOAD_SHA d94d95c448eeb3dca8b4fd4801f9d2f8bdae0f5f84b2d9f5cfbd48cd6d8d5b43
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		ca-certificates \
+		wget \
+		\
+		dpkg-dev \
+		gcc \
+		libc6-dev \
+		libssl-dev \
+		make \
+	; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
+	\
+	wget -O redis.tar.gz "$REDIS_DOWNLOAD_URL"; \
+	echo "$REDIS_DOWNLOAD_SHA *redis.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	mkdir -p /usr/src/redis; \
+	tar -xzf redis.tar.gz -C /usr/src/redis --strip-components=1; \
+	rm redis.tar.gz; \
+	\
+# disable Redis protected mode [1] as it is unnecessary in context of Docker
+# (ports are not automatically exposed when running inside Docker, but rather explicitly by specifying -p / -P)
+# [1]: https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/edd4d555df57dc84265fdfb4ef59a4678832f6da
+	grep -E '^ *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *1 *,.*[)],$' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+	sed -ri 's!^( *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *)1( *,.*[)],)$!\10\2!' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+	grep -E '^ *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *0 *,.*[)],$' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+# for future reference, we modify this directly in the source instead of just supplying a default configuration flag because apparently "if you specify any argument to redis-server, [it assumes] you are going to specify everything"
+# see also https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/4#issuecomment-50780840
+# (more exactly, this makes sure the default behavior of "save on SIGTERM" stays functional by default)
+	\
+# https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/467 -- we need to patch the "./configure" for the bundled jemalloc to match how Debian compiles, for compatibility
+# (also, we do cross-builds, so we need to embed the appropriate "--build=xxx" values to that "./configure" invocation)
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	extraJemallocConfigureFlags="--build=$gnuArch"; \
+# https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jemalloc/-/blob/c0a88c37a551be7d12e4863435365c9a6a51525f/debian/rules#L8-23
+	dpkgArch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
+	case "${dpkgArch##*-}" in \
+		amd64 | i386 | x32) extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-page=12" ;; \
+		*) extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-page=16" ;; \
+	esac; \
+	extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-hugepage=21"; \
+	grep -F 'cd jemalloc && ./configure ' /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	sed -ri 's!cd jemalloc && ./configure !&'"$extraJemallocConfigureFlags"' !' /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	grep -F "cd jemalloc && ./configure $extraJemallocConfigureFlags " /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	\
+	export BUILD_TLS=yes; \
+	make -C /usr/src/redis -j "$(nproc)" all; \
+	make -C /usr/src/redis install; \
+	\
+# TODO https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/3494 (deduplicate "redis-server" copies)
+	serverMd5="$(md5sum /usr/local/bin/redis-server | cut -d' ' -f1)"; export serverMd5; \
+	find /usr/local/bin/redis* -maxdepth 0 \
+		-type f -not -name redis-server \
+		-exec sh -eux -c ' \
+			md5="$(md5sum "$1" | cut -d" " -f1)"; \
+			test "$md5" = "$serverMd5"; \
+		' -- '{}' ';' \
+		-exec ln -svfT 'redis-server' '{}' ';' \
+	; \
+	\
+	rm -r /usr/src/redis; \
+	\
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	[ -z "$savedAptMark" ] || apt-mark manual $savedAptMark > /dev/null; \
+	find /usr/local -type f -executable -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
+		| awk '/=>/ { print $(NF-1) }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
+	; \
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	\
+	redis-cli --version; \
+	redis-server --version
+
+RUN mkdir /data && chown redis:redis /data
+VOLUME /data
+WORKDIR /data
+
+COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-entrypoint.sh"]
+
+EXPOSE 6379
+CMD ["redis-server"]
diff --git a/7.2-rc/alpine/Dockerfile b/7.2-rc/alpine/Dockerfile
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+FROM alpine:3.17
+
+# add our user and group first to make sure their IDs get assigned consistently, regardless of whatever dependencies get added
+RUN addgroup -S -g 1000 redis && adduser -S -G redis -u 999 redis
+# alpine already has a gid 999, so we'll use the next id
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache \
+# grab su-exec for easy step-down from root
+		'su-exec>=0.2' \
+# add tzdata for https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/138
+		tzdata
+
+ENV REDIS_VERSION 7.2-rc1
+ENV REDIS_DOWNLOAD_URL https://github.com/redis/redis/archive/7.2-rc1.tar.gz
+ENV REDIS_DOWNLOAD_SHA d94d95c448eeb3dca8b4fd4801f9d2f8bdae0f5f84b2d9f5cfbd48cd6d8d5b43
+
+RUN set -eux; \
+	\
+	apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
+		coreutils \
+		dpkg-dev dpkg \
+		gcc \
+		linux-headers \
+		make \
+		musl-dev \
+		openssl-dev \
+# install real "wget" to avoid:
+#   + wget -O redis.tar.gz https://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.0.6.tar.gz
+#   Connecting to download.redis.io (45.60.121.1:80)
+#   wget: bad header line:     XxhODalH: btu; path=/; Max-Age=900
+		wget \
+	; \
+	\
+	wget -O redis.tar.gz "$REDIS_DOWNLOAD_URL"; \
+	echo "$REDIS_DOWNLOAD_SHA *redis.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c -; \
+	mkdir -p /usr/src/redis; \
+	tar -xzf redis.tar.gz -C /usr/src/redis --strip-components=1; \
+	rm redis.tar.gz; \
+	\
+# disable Redis protected mode [1] as it is unnecessary in context of Docker
+# (ports are not automatically exposed when running inside Docker, but rather explicitly by specifying -p / -P)
+# [1]: https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/edd4d555df57dc84265fdfb4ef59a4678832f6da
+	grep -E '^ *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *1 *,.*[)],$' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+	sed -ri 's!^( *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *)1( *,.*[)],)$!\10\2!' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+	grep -E '^ *createBoolConfig[(]"protected-mode",.*, *0 *,.*[)],$' /usr/src/redis/src/config.c; \
+# for future reference, we modify this directly in the source instead of just supplying a default configuration flag because apparently "if you specify any argument to redis-server, [it assumes] you are going to specify everything"
+# see also https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/4#issuecomment-50780840
+# (more exactly, this makes sure the default behavior of "save on SIGTERM" stays functional by default)
+	\
+# https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/issues/467 -- we need to patch the "./configure" for the bundled jemalloc to match how Debian compiles, for compatibility
+# (also, we do cross-builds, so we need to embed the appropriate "--build=xxx" values to that "./configure" invocation)
+	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
+	extraJemallocConfigureFlags="--build=$gnuArch"; \
+# https://salsa.debian.org/debian/jemalloc/-/blob/c0a88c37a551be7d12e4863435365c9a6a51525f/debian/rules#L8-23
+	dpkgArch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)"; \
+	case "${dpkgArch##*-}" in \
+		amd64 | i386 | x32) extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-page=12" ;; \
+		*) extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-page=16" ;; \
+	esac; \
+	extraJemallocConfigureFlags="$extraJemallocConfigureFlags --with-lg-hugepage=21"; \
+	grep -F 'cd jemalloc && ./configure ' /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	sed -ri 's!cd jemalloc && ./configure !&'"$extraJemallocConfigureFlags"' !' /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	grep -F "cd jemalloc && ./configure $extraJemallocConfigureFlags " /usr/src/redis/deps/Makefile; \
+	\
+	export BUILD_TLS=yes; \
+	make -C /usr/src/redis -j "$(nproc)" all; \
+	make -C /usr/src/redis install; \
+	\
+# TODO https://github.com/redis/redis/pull/3494 (deduplicate "redis-server" copies)
+	serverMd5="$(md5sum /usr/local/bin/redis-server | cut -d' ' -f1)"; export serverMd5; \
+	find /usr/local/bin/redis* -maxdepth 0 \
+		-type f -not -name redis-server \
+		-exec sh -eux -c ' \
+			md5="$(md5sum "$1" | cut -d" " -f1)"; \
+			test "$md5" = "$serverMd5"; \
+		' -- '{}' ';' \
+		-exec ln -svfT 'redis-server' '{}' ';' \
+	; \
+	\
+	rm -r /usr/src/redis; \
+	\
+	runDeps="$( \
+		scanelf --needed --nobanner --format '%n#p' --recursive /usr/local \
+			| tr ',' '\n' \
+			| sort -u \
+			| awk 'system("[ -e /usr/local/lib/" $1 " ]") == 0 { next } { print "so:" $1 }' \
+	)"; \
+	apk add --no-network --virtual .redis-rundeps $runDeps; \
+	apk del --no-network .build-deps; \
+	\
+	redis-cli --version; \
+	redis-server --version
+
+RUN mkdir /data && chown redis:redis /data
+VOLUME /data
+WORKDIR /data
+
+COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/
+ENTRYPOINT ["docker-entrypoint.sh"]
+
+EXPOSE 6379
+CMD ["redis-server"]
diff --git a/7.2-rc/alpine/docker-entrypoint.sh b/7.2-rc/alpine/docker-entrypoint.sh
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index 000000000..b1105c861
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+# or first arg is `something.conf`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ] || [ "${1%.conf}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- redis-server "$@"
+fi
+
+# allow the container to be started with `--user`
+if [ "$1" = 'redis-server' -a "$(id -u)" = '0' ]; then
+	find . \! -user redis -exec chown redis '{}' +
+	exec su-exec redis "$0" "$@"
+fi
+
+# set an appropriate umask (if one isn't set already)
+# - https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/305
+# - https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/bb875603fb7ff3f9d19aad906bd45d7db98d9a39/utils/systemd-redis_server.service#L37
+um="$(umask)"
+if [ "$um" = '0022' ]; then
+	umask 0077
+fi
+
+exec "$@"
diff --git a/7.2-rc/docker-entrypoint.sh b/7.2-rc/docker-entrypoint.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+# first arg is `-f` or `--some-option`
+# or first arg is `something.conf`
+if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ] || [ "${1%.conf}" != "$1" ]; then
+	set -- redis-server "$@"
+fi
+
+# allow the container to be started with `--user`
+if [ "$1" = 'redis-server' -a "$(id -u)" = '0' ]; then
+	find . \! -user redis -exec chown redis '{}' +
+	exec gosu redis "$0" "$@"
+fi
+
+# set an appropriate umask (if one isn't set already)
+# - https://github.com/docker-library/redis/issues/305
+# - https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/bb875603fb7ff3f9d19aad906bd45d7db98d9a39/utils/systemd-redis_server.service#L37
+um="$(umask)"
+if [ "$um" = '0022' ]; then
+	umask 0077
+fi
+
+exec "$@"