[RELEASE] Scylla 5.0 RC7

[Tzach Livyatan]

The ScyllaDB team is pleased to announce ScyllaDB Open Source 5.0 rc7, a Release Candidate of the Scylla Open Source 5.0 major release. 

Use the release candidate with caution; rc7 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

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

* Report a problem

Bug fixes since 5.0 rc6: 

• Stability: Messaging: default tenants (user and system queries) are not isolated. As a result one node latency might increase a peer node latency #9505

• Too many open files during terminate and replace node (scale test) #10462

• Alternator - AWS Terraform API for Alternator fails to create table #10660

• Setup: scylla_sysconfig_setup: does not able to handle >=32 CPUs cpuset correctly #10523

• Setup: scylla image setup fails with ValueError, cause by a warning return from perftune.py #10082

• Storage: files created by Scylla ignore XFS project inheritance bit #10667

• REST  API major compaction request stuck for 30 minutes and don't get response from scylla. #10485

• Stability: Abort on bad_alloc during page loading #10617

Tzach