Last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master (issue #111; 2025-10-17)

This short report brings to light some interesting commits to scylla-cluster-tests.git master from the last week. Commits in the a20dd652…f1941804 range are covered.

There were 30 non-merge commits from 9 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

Latte bumped to 0.40.1-scylladb, bringing data‑validation fixes and the ability to generate 32‑bit floats in rune scripts. Also added support for specifying user/password in stress commands via --user /--password needed by SLA testing.

Provision tests added for clusters with a Vector Store node for AWS and Docker backends.

Support for performance v15/v16 branches was fully removed.

Scylla Cloud backend now supports the ‘release:latest’ tag to deploy the latest supported released version.

Add a weekly provision test for xcloud backend on both AWS and GCE to spot backend issues early.

After months of stable operation in tier1, logs transport default was switched to Vector.

Updated cassandra-stress to v3.18.2, bringing driver v3.11.5.8 and fixing a case where thread errors incorrectly yielded exit code 0.

See you in the next issue of last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master!