The ScyllaDB team announces ScyllaDB Java Driver 4.18.0.1, a feature-rich and highly tunable Java client library for Scylla and [Apache Cassandra®] (2.1+), using exclusively Cassandra’s binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language (CQL) v3
This version brings just an enhancement to schema queries on Scylla clusters. Before the schema queries had configurable timeouts that were purely driver-side. Now when querying Scylla the driver will also make use of ScyllaDB CQL “Using Timeout” extension by applying additional clause to schema queries.
This is a first release post here for the java driver, so it only makes sense to also mention that version 4.18.0.0 introduced the support for tablets - a new data distribution mechanism introduced in ScyllaDB 6.0. If you are using this mechanism with your tables it is highly encouraged to switch to newer Java Driver version.
Itemized changelog is available on releases page
https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/releases
Format of these release posts is subject to change. Let me know if you have any suggestions and please look forward to future releases.
You can check out the source code on GitHub
https://github.com/scylladb/java-driver/tree/scylla-4.x
For how to use the driver please refer to “Getting the driver” section.