# Valkey Experimental

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474>\
**Category:** Valkey & Redis\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474 "2025-04-03T13:01:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cpetit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@cpetit](https://forums.percona.com/u/cpetit)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474/1 "2025-04-03T13:01:45Z")

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Hi,

We want to use version 7.2 of Percona Valkey in production.

I see that the [official Percona documentation](https://docs.percona.com/valkey/installation.html#__tabbed_1_1) states that Valkey must be installed using the `percona-release` package, but in experimental mode.

If I enable experimental mode, I see Valley versions 7.2.5 / 7.2.6 and 8.0.0 available.

Do you know why Valkey is still in experimental mode, even for version 7.2.5?  
And do you know when Valkey will be available as an official release?

Thank you so much

Cédric P.

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**Author:** ![anil.joshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/anil.joshi/32/13100_2.png) [@anil.joshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/anil.joshi)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474/2 "2025-04-05T06:59:27Z")

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@cpetit

I see even without using **experimental** tag it works. So have you tried like this ?

```auto
[root@node0 /]# sudo percona-release enable valkey
* Enabling the Percona Valkey repository
<*> All done!

```

But yes the packages available earlier in experimental repos. I’ll double confirm about this it they made official for production or not yet.

Well, until then you can also get the packages from the official Valkey repos directly.

> **[Valkey Documentation · Installation](https://valkey.io/topics/installation/)**

> **[Valkey](https://valkey.io/download/releases/)**

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**Author:** ![cpetit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@cpetit](https://forums.percona.com/u/cpetit)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474/3 "2025-04-07T13:29:52Z")

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Hello and thank you @anil.joshi

I had already tested it by putting Valkey in the release tag.

```auto
root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# ls -la | grep valkey
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Apr 7 15:22 percona-valkey-release.list

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# percona-release enable valkey
* Enabling the Percona Valkey repository

```

```auto
root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# percona-release show
The following repositories are enabled on your system:
grep: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
pmm2-client - release
prel - release
telemetry - release
valkey - release
<*> All done!

```

```auto
root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
...
Hit:7 http://repo.percona.com/valkey/apt bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done

```

But I don’t have any version of Valkey available

```auto
root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-cache policy valkey
N: Unable to locate package valkey

root@49a732db133e:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt search valkey
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done

```

It seems that Valkey packages are only available with the experimental tag.

Thank you

Cédric P.

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**Author:** ![anil.joshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/anil.joshi/32/13100_2.png) [@anil.joshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/anil.joshi)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474/4 "2025-04-07T13:49:38Z")

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Hi, I confirmed and the valkey package from percona-release seems to be still in some experimental phase so its better you can check out in Valkey’s official repo released by the Linux Foundation until our binaries are ready to be released for Prod.

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**Author:** ![cpetit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@cpetit](https://forums.percona.com/u/cpetit)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/valkey-experimental/37474/5 "2025-04-14T07:36:57Z")

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Hi,

Thank you so mush @anil.joshi.  
I’ll use the Valkey source code and compile the version I’ll use in production.

Cédric P.