# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #165; 2023-01-29) **URL:** \ **Category:** ScyllaDB\ **Tags:** git-news\ **Created:** [January 29, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-165-2023-01-29/286 "2023-01-29T14:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 29, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-165-2023-01-29/286/1 "2023-01-29T14:16:32Z")
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 ebc100f74f…5eadea301e range are covered. There were 38 non-merge commits from 12 authors in that period. Some notable commits: The row cache will now [purge expired tombstones](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/ce96b472d39a6c72f99176c8cf84e171143ae046) before populating the cache, removing the performance impact of scanning tombstones. Note that non-expired tombstones are still loaded. Consistent schema management using Raft is now [enabled by default](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/5c886e59de1515210a04f0c6f12f398b9e6dd19d) for new clusters. Upgraded clusters default to raft disabled for schema management. Alternator, ScyllaDB’s implementation of the DynamoDB API, improved its performance by compiling regular expressions used to validate information [during process startup](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/b28818db06a97cbc942fe0f82b8a15f13bd853ac). The compaction manager reloads sstables during schema change, but it did so with quadratic complexity, causing stalls for tables that had many sstables. This is now [fixed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/87ee54712071c3eacb03b0463e5db7187742ff1e). See you in the next issue of last week in scylladb.git master!