# Last week in scylladb.git master (issue #330; 2026-08-16)

**URL:** https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-330-2026-08-16/5467
**Category:** ScyllaDB
**Tags:** git-news
**Created:** [August 16, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-330-2026-08-16/5467 "2026-08-16T14:06:57Z")
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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: [August 16, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/last-week-in-scylladb-git-master-issue-330-2026-08-16/5467/1 "2026-08-16T14:06:57Z")

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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 f9b74e63c2e..509fb96dcf2 range are covered.

There were 81 non-merge commits from 19 authors in that period. Some notable commits:

  

Alternator, ScyllaDB’s implementation of the DynamoDB API, now supports [mutual TLS](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/bf190d0d9d387997b2cb6a00d7b15a55fc68a991) authentication via client certificates.

The strongly consistent tables implementation, using Raft for the data plane, now supports [BATCH](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/950539289b1675cfb1b15c9f6e72b2c6bb2a514c) statements.

The byte-comparable key transform now supports [empty values](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/1b8b6222e149634b8538f34f1795a5a281edb9cd) (those can be created with blobAsInt(0x)).

The `nodetool scrub` command can now [opt out](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/3b99f7fd7439190f9eed63461c016c66c6ab4510) of quarantining invalid sstables.

The bm25() function, used to order full-text-search results, can now be [part of the SELECT clause](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/4610995aef897a79c9b144f3859370b9517529bc) in order to return the match quality.

The tablet load balancer will now perform calculations based on the [target tablet count](https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/commit/129c64d705ece8d59492ac8484ba816bcbae6abd) for a table, not just the result of the next split/merge. This improves tablet layout when there are many small tables.

  

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