[RELEASE] ScyllaDB 5.1.8

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The ScyllaDB team announces ScyllaDB Open Source 5.1.8, a bugfix release of the ScyllaDB 5.1 stable branch. ScyllaDB Open Source 5.1.8, like all past and future 5.x.y releases, is backward compatible and supports rolling upgrades.

Users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.1.8.

Related links:

• ScyllaDB Open Source 5.1
• Get ScyllaDB Open Source - AWS AMI, GCP Docker, binary packages and unified installer
• ScyllaDB Web Installer for Linux (all releases)
• Upgrade from ScyllaDB Open Source 5.x.y to Scylla Open Source 5.x.z
• Upgrade from ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0.x to 5.1.y
• Please let us know if you encounter an issue.

Issue fixed in this release:

• Stability: segmentation fault crash), with one batch query, caused by an empty primary key range in LWT update #13001
• Stability: reader_concurrency_semaphore::clear_inactive_reads() doesn’t properly evict inactive reads. The bug manifests when creating and removing service levels via CQL. #13048