# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #228; 2024-05-05)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-228-2024-05-05/1952>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** git-news\
**Created:** [May 5, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-228-2024-05-05/1952 "2024-05-05T08:00:03Z")\
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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 5, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-228-2024-05-05/1952/1 "2024-05-05T08:00:03Z")

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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 week. Commits in the d8313dda43…53b98a8610 range are covered.

There were 65 non-merge commits from 10 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The ‘ALTER TABLE … DROP column’ statement gained support of the [USING TIMESTAMP](https://342f194e6d576bf66f1737389f) clause. This is useful to restore tables that had columns dropped in the past and then re-created while avoiding data resurrection.

The nodetool command now understands the [resetlocalschema](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/bd0d246b57bdf8b1dc6c9c117708415bc60a1ce9) subcommand.

The rpm and deb packages will [no longer pull in](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/b8634fb244ab08c2ffa66700745b06e21ee57f30) the scylla-tools and scylla-jmx subpackages by default. They can still be installed directly.

The SELECT statement now [chooses a consistent plan](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/f604269f0ac7de79e4db31c2cba84cc6d67c02ce) when multiple secondary indexes are available, preventing inconsistency when a paged query hops to a different coordinator.

Handling of [very large mutations](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/8de81f8f913bfa1809b45a295a6cc347a1083d7d) has been improved, reducing stalls while managing cluster metadata (e.g. topology and tablets).

  

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