# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #288; 2025-08-10)

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-288-2025-08-10/5048
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** git-news
**Created:** [August 10, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-288-2025-08-10/5048 "2025-08-10T08:48:18Z")
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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: [August 10, 2025, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-288-2025-08-10/5048/1 "2025-08-10T08:48:18Z")

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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 1c25aa891b..f3d9d0c1c7 range are covered.

There were 76 non-merge commits from 20 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The Raft recovery procedure is run when a cluster suffers a majority loss and the quorum needs to be re-established. It is now [simplified](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/ec7832cc841d29599b47285c2bb5e9445d34f3d1).

Tests can now be [labeled](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/4b975668f6259bfa5798001ff1b89af583893bb8) regarding their stability and criticallity.

The system.clients virtual table now [lists active Alternator requests](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/4c785b31c73eba019f3094b1e4d32ed76d110914) in addition to CQL connections.

An internal error in truncate was [relaxed into a warning](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/bb922b2aa9dd58de902848d99fde06b9b1c5828a), after it was determined the condition can legitimately happen.

The CQL SELECT statement gained the ability to [use a vector secondary index](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/d46dda084030d1d4d54463158df9d1e71053db29).

There is now a REST API endpoint to [drop quarantined sstables](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/0616407be5dc0ca1f35ae7f860d09b8e89de81b9) and reclaim their storage. Sstables become quarantined when corruption is detected in them.

It is now possible to [write](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/70aa81990b96305b98d64f2f13f74aa022fc33d9) into system tables using Alternator rather than just read them.

  

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