# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #298; 2025-11-16)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-298-2025-11-16/5180>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
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**Created:** [November 16, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-298-2025-11-16/5180 "2025-11-16T17:43:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-298-2025-11-16/5180/1 "2025-11-16T17:43:55Z")

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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 cdba3bebda..3672715211 range are covered.

There were 112 non-merge commits from 23 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

Alternator, ScyllaDB’s implementation of the DynamoDB API, now [uses tablets](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/042303f0c9c168bffc09ce3cb27dad7d3b524382) by default instead of vnodes. This greatly improves scale-out performance.

The bundled Prometheus node\_exporter package was updated to [version 1.10.2](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/c601371b57e1c21601ccfe6a2ab598dd22e95ff7) to solve security issues.

The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) integration now [retries](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/6f6ee5581ef424cff748852e834326ee657fb202) certain API calls to improve robustness.

The CQL layer now correctly [deserializes vectors of collections](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/5839574294d0f3fad0d35a75343de8ad311d894f). Note that these data types are not useful in practice.

Native restore from backup (where ScyllaDB directly accesses object storage) can now restore to only the [primary replica](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/f47f2db710aee7cac9f05ad185fb769b34a31844), leaving full replication for later.

The view builder now [backs off](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/43506e5f280c965142e6a72ba635eda6279b8e0a) when view building fails due to RPC errors, reducing log spam.

Bootstrap and decommission now use [regular streaming](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/43738298beb5f0017d11342f9ae318b99be81614) rather than repair-based node operations (RBNO) by default due to problems with performance and some stability issues.

The vector store client, used for vector index searches, now [backs off](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/68407a09ed2d64fe51c76359f262633bc06c6eea) failed nodes and fails over to live nodes.

The topology coordinator now [includes joining nodes](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/2ccc94c49631bec5c9aa80c66eee69921702da2d) (not completely bootstrapped) in topology barriers, to improve robustness.

Streaming and repair now [verify](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/8579e20bd12144b01e5b482aad9196fdf5243cb4) sstable digest and checksums.

  

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