# Last fortnight in scylladb.git master (issue #278; 2025-05-04)

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-278-2025-05-04/4805
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** git-news
**Created:** [May 4, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-278-2025-05-04/4805 "2025-05-04T11:17:39Z")
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### Author: ![avikivity](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/avikivity/32/38_2.png) [@avikivity](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/avikivity)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-278-2025-05-04/4805/1 "2025-05-04T11:17:39Z")

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This short report brings to light some interesting commits to [scylladb.git master](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/) from the last week. Commits in the 2314feeae2..8ffe4b0308 range are covered.

There were 59 non-merge commits from 17 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The snitch reports the datacenter and rack of a node. We will now [refuse to start the service](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/eb5b52f598db80cc04693ccf46b3d837ba8ed078) if the snitch reports a different datacenter or rack, preventing data loss.

When creating a new table, we will prefer to distribute tablets for the [new table](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/2dcd2b21ae00880ce6436300d15bebb2cab4c915) equally among all nodes, rather than distributing all-table tablet count equally. This improves performance for the new table.

Alternator, ScyllaDB’s implementation of the DynamoDB API, now [limits attribute name length](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/e588c8667faaba7b351ddfb3976d0015b6090efb) in the same name as DynamoDB.

Materialized views are now [more robust](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/262530f27cde9560bc50dcfe05d792464a58a049) during schema changes. The change removes the possibility of accessing an outdated schema that no longer exists or is incompatible with the view schema.

  

See you in the next issue of last week in scylladb.git master!