# \[RELEASE\]: Scylla Doctor v1.8

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/release-scylla-doctor-v1-8/5272>\
**Category:** Release Notes\
**Tags:** scylla-doctor\
**Created:** [February 8, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/release-scylla-doctor-v1-8/5272 "2026-02-08T23:45:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/release-scylla-doctor-v1-8/5272/1 "2026-02-08T23:45:00Z")

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Scylla Doctor v1.8 is released.

- Enhancements:
  - NodeInstanceTypeAnalyzer: Update GCP and AWS instances.
  - PendingMaintenanceEvent: added collection and analyzer.
  - utils.py: CloudProviderAE: read metadata without loading as json.
  - Auto detect rest api support and refactor of SKIPPED dependency status handling.
  - Tighten collector exceptions handling.
  - Move read scylla rest api to a collector base class.
  - Read Scylla configuration from memory where possible.
  - Scylla doctor collect cfstats, compression info and used disk space.