# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #296; 2025-10-12)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-296-2025-10-12/5130>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
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**Created:** [October 12, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-296-2025-10-12/5130 "2025-10-12T16:16:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-296-2025-10-12/5130/1 "2025-10-12T16:16:37Z")

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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 20aeed1607..8cd9f5d271 range are covered.

There were 88 non-merge commits from 17 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The replication factor can now be specified as a [list of racks](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/380f243986061d269be32413a7d07f88f320749f), rather than a number. This allows a keyspace to be migrated off a particular rack before it is decommissioned.

Creating materialized views in tablet keyspaces now requires that the replication factor [match](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/e7907b173a4068e3e618470fbbdec311ec53773d) the number of racks.

The BYPASS CACHE query option now bypasses the cache for index reads [using Trie indexes](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/dbddba07942a794b415538ee67bd64be20d63998).

The setup tool now checks if 4k block sizes are [preferred](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/2c74a6981b4e1e93bc74b2371131f90bc5d11a64) by the disk, even if it advertises 512 byte physical sector sizes, to compensate for disks that misreport the physical sector size.

The data filesystem will now be mounted with the [lazytime](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/bb02295695942e3ba8466f84f29d1a2517f9787d) option, to reduce metadata updates.

  

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