diff --git a/actix-limitation/CHANGES.md b/actix-limitation/CHANGES.md
index 88ef3ed38..4b662f523 100644
--- a/actix-limitation/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-limitation/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Update `redis` dependency to `0.26`.
+
 ## 0.5.1
 
 - No significant changes since `0.5.0`.
diff --git a/actix-limitation/Cargo.toml b/actix-limitation/Cargo.toml
index 44c6f1ecf..06f7540fb 100644
--- a/actix-limitation/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-limitation/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ actix-web = { version = "4", default-features = false, features = ["cookies"] }
 chrono = "0.4"
 derive_more = "0.99.7"
 log = "0.4"
-redis = { version = "0.25", default-features = false, features = ["tokio-comp"] }
+redis = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = ["tokio-comp"] }
 time = "0.3"
 
 # session
diff --git a/actix-session/CHANGES.md b/actix-session/CHANGES.md
index 070b4351a..0e987ce6d 100644
--- a/actix-session/CHANGES.md
+++ b/actix-session/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Rename `redis-rs-tls-session` crate feature to `redis-session-native-tls`.
 - Remove `redis-actor-session` crate feature (and, therefore, the `actix-redis` based storage backend).
 - Expose `storage::generate_session_key()`.
+- Update `redis` dependency to `0.26`.
 
 ## 0.9.0
 
diff --git a/actix-session/Cargo.toml b/actix-session/Cargo.toml
index e484407d8..3de6f0e36 100644
--- a/actix-session/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-session/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ serde_json = { version = "1" }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.30", default-features = false, features = ["log"] }
 
 # redis-session
-redis = { version = "0.25", default-features = false, features = ["tokio-comp", "connection-manager"], optional = true }
+redis = { version = "0.26", default-features = false, features = ["tokio-comp", "connection-manager"], optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-session = { path = ".", features = ["cookie-session", "redis-session"] }
diff --git a/actix-session/src/storage/redis_rs.rs b/actix-session/src/storage/redis_rs.rs
index 3dafbc650..ca9aeb5e6 100644
--- a/actix-session/src/storage/redis_rs.rs
+++ b/actix-session/src/storage/redis_rs.rs
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ impl SessionStore for RedisSessionStore {
                         SaveError::Other(err) => UpdateError::Other(err),
                     })
             }
-            Value::Int(_) | Value::Okay | Value::Status(_) => Ok(session_key),
+            Value::Int(_) | Value::Okay | Value::SimpleString(_) => Ok(session_key),
             val => Err(UpdateError::Other(anyhow::anyhow!(
                 "Failed to update session state. {:?}",
                 val