[RELEASE] Scylla 5.0 RC2

[Tzach Livyatan]

The Scylla team is pleased to announce Scylla Open Source 5.0 RC2, the second Release Candidate for the Scylla Open Source 5.0 major release. 

Use the release candidate with caution; RC2 is not production-ready yet. You can help stabilize Scylla 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 and bug fixes, see Scylla 5.0 RC1. 

Related Links     

* Scylla 5.0 RC1 

* Get Scylla Open Source 5.0 (under “More Versions” for each distro) 

* Report a problem

Updates and bug fixes since 5.0 RC1

• Performance: Cleanup compaction / rewrite sstable block behind regular compaction for each sstable #10175. This fix replaces the earlier reverted fix for  #10060, which was not complete. 
• Stability: a bug in LSA allocator might cause a Coredump, for example after snapshot operations #10056
• Build: compilation error on Fedora 34 with recent libstdc++ #10079
• Alternator: Deleting a nested path with non-existent leaf should work #10043

Regards

Tzach