# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #314; 2026-03-22)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-314-2026-03-22/5317>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
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**Created:** [March 22, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-314-2026-03-22/5317 "2026-03-22T18:32:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-314-2026-03-22/5317/1 "2026-03-22T18:32:14Z")

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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 755d528135c..f5112648316 range are covered.

There were 163 non-merge commits from 29 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

A new storage engine, [logstor](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/6b259babeb0ef14c82082d67871b8fca19afde7f), has been merged. Logstor improves performance for key-value workloads and is intended for strongly consistent tables. It is now available in unsupported experimental mode only.

The Trie index is now the [default sstable format](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/062751fcec762056e5d813891d5c7c6753b664af) for new clusters. Upgraded clusters retain the traditional index.

The Prometheus metric exporter now exports some [systemd metrics](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/9898e5700b1193705982ecdfc5f604d581f74211).

A node decommission will now [wait](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/a5df2e79a7577c0e5bc1bd6c3fe8e4d419ca2d5d) for a snapshot or backup to complete.

A replica will terminate a read request if it thinks it has low chance of completing before timeout. It is now careful to only terminate requests that [haven’t been started](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/9de8d6798efc729d7e9567eb3dda0721d75cbd5a) yet; started requests have had some work invested into them so it’s worthwhile to try to let them complete.

Connections on the maintenance socket now have [full authority](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/46a6f8e1d33ce9d35ae9c071e6498bd24520d5bc) on the database.

Read performance for workloads with very small partitions, using the traditional (non-Trie) index, has been [greatly improved](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/5e7fb08bf30f886ba3407ca4153ee81da729582c).

  

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