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ScyllaDB Enterprise Release 2018.1.11

ScyllaDB Enterprise Release Notes

ScyllaDB Enterprise Release Notes

The ScyllaDB team announces the release of ScyllaDB Enterprise 2018.1.11, a production-ready ScyllaDB Enterprise minor release. ScyllaDB Enterprise 2018.1.11 is a bug fix release for the 2018.1 branch, the latest stable branch of ScyllaDB Enterprise. As always, ScyllaDB Enterprise customers are encouraged to upgrade to ScyllaDB Enterprise 2018.1.11 in coordination with the ScyllaDB support team.

The major fix in this release is for a rare race condition between a schema update (adding or removing a column) and an initiated compaction, which may cause the compaction to write values to the wrong columns. The short time window where this may occur, is just after compaction was initiated but before it starts writing to storage. Should the race condition occur, there may be a crash or validation/run-time error on the driver side. #4304

Other fixes issues in this release are listed below, with open source references, if present:

  • Using ScyllaDB shard aware drivers may cause unbalanced connections, where one shard has tens of thousands of connections, while the others do not, resulting in a temporary slow down #4269
  • Reads from system tables do not time out as they should, which might create large queues of reads if connections were opened too often.
  • Rebuilding a node may cause long reactor stalls on large clusters #3639
  • A bootstrapping node doesn’t wait for a schema before joining the ring, which may result in the node failing to bootstrap, with the error storage_proxy - Failed to apply mutation. In particular, this error manifests when user-defined type is used.  #4196
  • cqlsh: Make TLSv1.2 default

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About Tzach Livyatan

Tzach Livyatan has a B.A. and MSc in Computer Science (Technion, Summa Cum Laude), and has had a 15 year career in development, system engineering and product management. In the past he worked in the Telecom domain, focusing on carrier grade systems, signalling, policy and charging applications.