# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #327; 2026-07-26)

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-327-2026-07-26/5441>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** git-news\
**Created:** [July 26, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-327-2026-07-26/5441 "2026-07-26T17:04:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-327-2026-07-26/5441/1 "2026-07-26T17:04:13Z")

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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 14339e70165..17d5879040a range are covered.

There were 85 non-merge commits from 25 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

During a tablet split, we avoid splitting sstables that don’t span the split boundary. This had a race condition versus compaction that triggered an internal error. We now [acquire](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/7420f936bbca86cd4ff78d55c63fd00060fa312a) the correct lock to avoid the race.

Variable-size-integer encoding and decoding was made [branchless](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/f381eeb9b70d2fdf807f1be8f335705d868c9122) to improve performance.

Repair will [auto-detect](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/cb52178d5d361512390f0d18cb3f292fd0363dc1) small tables to improve performance of repair-based node operations (RBNO).

A failed table restore in tablets mode now [cleans up](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/77a4003cb40fc097d2b3423e406684821b03506d) after itself.

The sstable checksum validator now validates checksums for [all components](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/a7a6b728b5e6a5ea3ef732485e8a1c5801fa175a).

The ability to configure [object storage parameters](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/a4a3a4b2b0f3aea91db3ae051f557641c164a993) (e.g. the bucket name) in the keyspace was marked generally available.

A new metric [sstables-per-read](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/7e15d34a399b4046dd86eaa64b5f1344671f37de) can be used to estimate read amplification via Prometheus.

The internal queries used for LWT paxos requests were heavily [optimized](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/049f9a23b26c00abc8295211802b4ebfb4fea9bf).

The experimental “broadcast tables” feature, used to explore Raft for the data path, was [removed](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/a4b693137d676f706252d971898d67e2ed33611c). Strongly consistent tables (also experimental) uses a different method.

  

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