# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #251; 2024-10-13)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-251-2024-10-13/3038>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** git-news\
**Created:** [October 13, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-251-2024-10-13/3038 "2024-10-13T10:56:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-251-2024-10-13/3038/1 "2024-10-13T10:56:10Z")

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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 882a3c60e4…18d3a6480d range are covered.

There were 111 non-merge commits from 23 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The alternator /localnodes REST API return nodes local to the current datacenter. It is now [enhanced](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/45ccceb137e67a920850324cc2429d86692d5b2c) to be able to return other datacenters, and to restrict the returned nodes to a specific rack. This can help reduce networking costs.

A crash during shutdown while draining active writes has been [fixed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/d62fbd795b4c1a52dd48aa62168959cfeb83b80e).

Time Window Compaction Strategy will now return [fresher values](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/48ea51029fb1a446f91f2e687464776f370c52f6) for its pending compaction count estimate.

The sstable scrub/validate commands will [now check the digest of the entire sstable data file](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/bb1867c7c7b3a1c94ad617ecccb4e558d74f170e), in addition to the already-checked per-block checksums.

The sstable Scylla.db component now has a [copy of the sstable uuid](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/3a12ad96c7bd433a4f1b822397bd033d6e0b4a4f). This is needed for backup deduplication, since the sstable uuid in the file name may change when a tablet is migrated to a different shard.

Raft-managed tables used for system metadata now have [more eager garbage collection of tombstones](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/4d99cd2055dc2cd8013dcf1613c5bada992edc32), reducing performance problems with many schema or topology changes.

  

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