[RELEASE] ScyllaDB 5.2.8

The ScyllaDB team announces ScyllaDB Open Source 5.2.8, a bugfix release of the ScyllaDB 5.2 stable branch. ScyllaDB Open Source 5.2.8, like all past and future 5.x.y releases, is backward compatible and supports rolling upgrades.

Users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.2.8.

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Issue fixed in this release:

  • Init: scylla_raid_setup: --online-discard option always enables ‘discard’ #14963
  • Nodetool: nodetool stop RESHAPE stops individual task, but doesn’t abort the whole operation #15058
  • Stability: When removing a service level, the node might stop applying workload prioritization changes, like CREATE/DROP/ALTER SERVICE_LEVEL, until it restarts. #15198
  • Stability: Scylla should skip mode validation of snapshot files #12010
  • Stability: Scylla should skip mode validation of snapshot files #12010
  • UX: Handle TLS version of broken pipe same as “normal”, making the error message less scary. #14625
  • UX: Warning message does not includes enough details: capped tombstone local_deletion_time warning does not indicate the respective sstable #15015