# Last fortnight in scylladb.git master (issue #302; 2025-12-21)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-302-2025-12-21/5220>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
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**Created:** [December 21, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-302-2025-12-21/5220 "2025-12-21T13:39:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-fortnight-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-302-2025-12-21/5220/1 "2025-12-21T13:39:03Z")

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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 two weeks. Commits in the 47efbdffbc..f65db4e8eb range are covered.

There were 208 non-merge commits from 37 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

Tablet repair now [reports its progress](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/faad0167d7a1c26aab73e37bb74b69ec5e77d837) via the task manager.

Metrics exposed by Prometheus node\_exporter now include the [ethtool](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/a213e41250dff8211ac1b539b0f4ed1910202801) collector.

The frozen toolchain was rebased to Fedora 43 with [clang 21.1](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/80c6718ea888c4148a9abfb2f891b7fdf42d3410).

Authentication now uses a password hash implementation that [runs on the reactor](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/c06e63daed6ce779fc6fbcae6c44e1b62b9ec770) but avoids stalls. This prevents a CPU bottleneck when running on non-reactor CPUs.

Batchlog replay performance was [improved](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/3f7ee3ce5dbdeff1b73b8d7404487c9d47dfce97).

There is a new [system.client\_routes](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/73db5c94dee9945d252fba253f44c90c90a944ae) table, intended to help clients determine routes to nodes behind a reverse proxy (e.g. AWS privatelink and similar).

The ALTER KEYSPACE statement can now [convert](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/c077283352ce3a6d44493f327c8551a1ba2406c7) a keyspace with a numeric replication factor to an explicit rack list. Tablets will be migrated to the specified racks.

  

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