# Last week in scylla-cluster-tests.git master (issue #126; 2026-02-27)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylla-cluster-tests-git-master-issue-126-2026-02-27/5295>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
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**Created:** [February 27, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylla-cluster-tests-git-master-issue-126-2026-02-27/5295 "2026-02-27T15:37:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylla-cluster-tests-git-master-issue-126-2026-02-27/5295/1 "2026-02-27T15:37:31Z")

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This short report brings to light some interesting commits to [scylla-cluster-tests.git master](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests) from the last week. Commits in the e058afce…9f4cf0a0 range are covered.

There were 45 non-merge commits from 16 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

All [Elasticsearch related code was removed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/1747db8f9356d5d19390d92057ae6b29200180de) from the test framework. All data is kept in Argus.

`gemini` was [bumped to v2.3.0](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/017c8f6e66fdabeba43c67ddce1dd4f5ad9984c1), a version that brings successful validations in the statement logger, narrowing the data-loss investigation scope.

YCSB was [updated to 1.2.0](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/55e74319b1bd823103ed6fffd06b20b98cb812b0) with a native load balancer. Additionally, alternator load balancing is now [enabled by default on every workload](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/92e0d2120bf0f1eac475e93e7fa50b88a3706b0b), with the exception of performance tests.

A [skill framework was introduced](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/fa156cecd05aa9ca5cbdd7fc6554baf7fcf1cdc5) to provide structured AI guidance for Copilot when working in this repository. This followed an [implementation plan](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-cluster-tests/commit/c3dec1a622daf1449beeb9d8b1e7b361cd892daf) for covering 5 skills: `designing-skills` , `writing-plans` , `python-guidelines` , `unit-testing` , and `integration-testing` .

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