[RELEASE] Scylla 5.0 RC8

[Tzach Livyatan]

The ScyllaDB team is pleased to announce ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0 rc8, a Release Candidate of the Scylla Open Source 5.0 major release. 

Use the release candidate with caution; rc8 is not production-ready yet. You can help stabilize ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0 by reporting bugs here.

Please note that only the last two minor releases of Scylla Open Source project are supported. Once Scylla Open Source 5.0 is officially released, only Scylla Open Source 5.0 and Scylla 4.6 will be supported, and Scylla 4.5 will be retired.  For a complete description of Scylla 5.0 new features, see Scylla 5.0 RC1. 

Related Links     

* Scylla 5.0 RC1 , RC2, RC3, RC5, RC6, RC7

* Get Scylla Open Source 5.0 (under “ScyllaDB 5.0 (Release Candidate)” for each distro) 

* Report a problem

Bug fixes since 5.0 rc7: 

• Performance: write only workload which is throttled and uses only 20-30% CPU can't be sustained #10704
• Stability: coredump when calling describe_ring and a node is being shut down #10592

Tzach