[RELEASE] ScyllaDB Java Driver 4.18.0.2

Release Notes
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The ScyllaDB team announces release of ScyllaDB Java Driver 4.18.0.2.
Previous release post: 4.18.0.1

This version brings the following notable changes:

  • Improvements to tablet handling.
    Checking tablet map only for keyspaces using tablets, determined by system_schema.scylla_keyspaces (#405)
    Much less unnecessary tablet map invalidations (#388)
  • Defafult schema request timeout is now higher (20 seconds). No longer equal to basic.request.timeout (#404)
  • Driver can now reconnect to contact points as fallback (#341)
  • bugfix: ControlConnection used to log wrong channel being closed (#342)
  • Driver now reports ScyllaDB Java Driver name to the cluster instead of DataStax Java Driver (#318). This will be reflected in system.clients table.

You can check out the source code and full history 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.