php-resque can't leverage some of the newer functionality out of the box (Redis Sentinel support), but if you want to leverage it you can do so by passing your own Credis instance into php-resque. Personally I haven't used the Sentinel support in Credis, we're currently using Predis as our php-resque Redis implementation.
This introduces these changes: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/credis/compare/1.4...1.7
php-resque can't leverage some of the newer functionality out of the box (Redis Sentinel support), but if you want to leverage it you can do so by passing your own Credis instance into php-resque. Personally I haven't used the Sentinel support in Credis, we're currently using Predis as our php-resque Redis implementation.