diff --git a/docs/release-notes/version-2.8.md b/docs/release-notes/version-2.8.md
index 2ce0f7371..a77a7d6c5 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/version-2.8.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/version-2.8.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 * [#4887](https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/4887) - Don't disable NAPALM tabs when device has no primary IP
 * [#4894](https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/4894) - Fix display of device/VM counts on platforms list
 * [#4895](https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/4895) - Force UTF-8 encoding when embedding model documentation
+* [#4910](https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/4910) - Unpin redis dependency to fix exception in RQ worker
 
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 79e4fdd9f..36a62815c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,5 +21,4 @@ Pillow==7.1.1
 psycopg2-binary==2.8.5
 pycryptodome==3.9.7
 PyYAML==5.3.1
-redis==3.4.1
 svgwrite==1.4