# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #308; 2026-02-08)

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-308-2026-02-08/5271
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** git-news
**Created:** [February 8, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-308-2026-02-08/5271 "2026-02-08T19:32:46Z")
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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: [February 8, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-308-2026-02-08/5271/1 "2026-02-08T19:32:46Z")

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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 b93472d595c..81d11a23cec range are covered.

There were 64 non-merge commits from 21 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

The system.cluster\_status virtual table [gained](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/68b105b21c6feabc47b0ca2470495af26d6f4249) a `rack` column.

The CQL3 SELECT clause now [supports](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/cc03f5c89d09c609515f37557ac267fe00fe7b56) literals (“17”) and bind variables (“?”). This is mostly helpful as parameters to functions.

The option to use gossip instead of Raft for cluster topology has been [removed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/08268eee3ff6baac64eec615a519f6c995ceeede). Upgrades from older versions must switch to Raft topology before the upgrade.

The DESCRIBE statement will now [hide](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/df69dbec2a8287fc5eef9fc24ad59261de8eed49) internal paxos tables used to support LWT.

  

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