[RELEASE] ScyllaDB 5.1.16

The ScyllaDB team announces ScyllaDB Open Source 5.1.16, a bugfix release of the ScyllaDB 5.1 stable branch. ScyllaDB Open Source 5.1.16, like all past and future 5.x.y releases are backward compatible and support rolling upgrades.

Note that the latest stable ScyllaDB Open Source release is 5.2, and you are encouraged to upgrade to it.

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Issue fixed in this release:

  • CQL: Cannot Cast Counter To Double #14501
  • Nodetool: Incorrect output in cfhistograms/tablehistograms #10089
  • CQL: Missing counterasblob() function, converting from Counter to Blob #14742
  • Stability: an extremely rare case can cause Iterator invalidation in lsa_partition_reader::reset_state(), following by process exit #14696
  • Stability: Mitigate semaphore mismatch when possible. This does not affect Open Source users. #14770
  • Stability: when tables are dropped during a running repair, a repair_tracker run failed: data_dictionary::no_such_column_family #13045
  • Stability: Temporary SSTables generated by incremental compaction (used by LCS) are being incorrectly compacted #14560
  • Stability: view_updating_consumer does not account for partition header size. In extreme case, this bug can cause OOM and exit when MV is created from a base table with many small partitions #14819