This issue adds the upgrade guide for all patch releases within 2026.x major release.
In addition, it fixes the link to Upgrade Policy in the 2025.x-to-2026.1 upgrade guide.
Fixes SCYLLADB-1247
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29307
(cherry picked from commit 176f6fb59e)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29382
Document how to migrate a ScyllaDB cluster to different instance
types using the add-and-replace node cycling approach.
Closes: QAINFRA-42
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28458
(cherry picked from commit cee44716db)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28995
This PR fixes the Installation page:
- Replaces `http `with `https `in the download command.
- Replaces the Open Source example from the Installation section for CentOS (we overlooked this example before).
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/29087
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/29087
This update affects all supported versions and should be backported as a bug fix.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29088
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
doc: remove the Open Source Example from Installation
doc: replace http with https in the installation instructions
(cherry picked from commit e8b37d1a89)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29135
Remove outdated references to filtering on columns provided in the
index definition, and remove the note about equal relations (= and IN)
being the only supported operations. Vector search filtering currently
supports WHERE clauses on primary key columns only.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28949
(cherry picked from commit 40d180a7ef)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#29069
This commit updates the documentation for the unified installer.
- The Open Source example is replaced with version 2025.1 (Source Available, currently supported, LTS).
- The info about CentOS 7 is removed (no longer supported).
- Java 8 is removed.
- The example for cassandra-stress is removed (as it was already removed on other installation pages).
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/28150Closesscylladb/scylladb#28152
(cherry picked from commit 855c503c63)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28910
This commit adds the upgrade guide for version 2026.1.
According to the new upgrade policy, the user can now upgrade to the major version (2026.1)
from any previous minor version.
So instead of adding a separate guide form 2025.4 to 2026.1, we need a guide from 2025.x to 2026.1.
In addition, this commit:
- Updates the upgrade policy for reflect the above change.
- Removes the upgrade guides for the previous version.
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/28533
Fixes https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/28532Closesscylladb/scylladb#28789
(cherry picked from commit dfd46ad3fb)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28835
This commit removes the information that Alternator doesn't support tablets.
The limitation is no longer valid.
Fixes SCYLLADB-778
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28781
(cherry picked from commit e2333a57ad)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28795
Explain what automatic repair is and how to configure it. While at it, improve the existing repair documentation a bit.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-130
This PR missed the 2026.1 branch date, so it needs backport to 2026.1, where the auto repair feature debuts.
- (cherry picked from commit a84b1b8b78)
- (cherry picked from commit 57b2cd2c16)
- (cherry picked from commit 1713d75c0d)
Parent PR: #28199Closesscylladb/scylladb#28424
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs: add feature page for automatic repair
docs: inter-link incremental-repair and repair documents
docs: incremental-repair: fix curl example
Vector Search feature needs to support creating vector indexes with additional
filtering column. There will be two types of indexes: global which indexes
vectors per table, and local which indexes vectors per partition key. The new
syntaxes are based on ScyllaDB's Global Secondary Index and Local Secondary
Index. Vector indexes don't use secondary indexes functionalities in any way -
all indexing, filtering and processing data will be done on Vector Store side.
This patch allows creating vector indexes using this CQL syntax:
```
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cycling.comments_vs (
commenter text,
comment text,
comment_vector VECTOR <FLOAT, 5>,
created_at timestamp,
discussion_board_id int,
country text,
lang text,
PRIMARY KEY ((commenter, discussion_board_id), created_at)
);
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX IF NOT EXISTS global_ann_index
ON cycling.comments_vs(comment_vector, country, lang) USING 'vector_index'
WITH OPTIONS = { 'similarity_function': 'DOT_PRODUCT' };
CREATE CUSTOM INDEX IF NOT EXISTS local_ann_index
ON cycling.comments_vs((commenter, discussion_board_id), comment_vector, country, lang)
USING 'vector_index'
WITH OPTIONS = { 'similarity_function': 'DOT_PRODUCT' };
```
Currently, if we run these queries to create indexes we will receive such errors:
```
InvalidRequest: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="Vector index can only be created on a single column"
InvalidRequest: Error from server: code=2200 [Invalid query] message="Local index definition must contain full partition key only. Redundant column: XYZ"
```
This commit refactors `vector_index::check_target` to correctly validate
columns building the index. Vector-store currently support filtering by native
types, so the type of columns is checked. The first column from the list must
be a vector (to build index based on these vectors), so it is also checked.
Allowed types for columns are native types without counter (it is not possible
to create a table with counter and vector) and without duration (it is not
possible to correctly compare durations, this type is even not allowed in
secondary indexes).
This commits adds cqlpy test to check errors while creating indexes.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-298
This needs to be backported to version 2026.1 as this is a fix for filtering support.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28366
(cherry picked from commit f49c9e896a)
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28448
Explain what the feature is and how to confiture it.
Inter-link all the repair related pages, so one can discover all about
repair, regardless of which page they land on.
(cherry picked from commit 1713d75c0d)
The user can now discover the general explanatio of repair when reading
about incremental repair, useful if they don't know what repair is.
The user can now discover incremental repair while reading the generic
repair procedure document.
(cherry picked from commit 57b2cd2c16)
In this PR we add a basic implementation of the strongly-consistent tables:
* generate raft group id when a strongly-consistent table is created
* persist it into system.tables table
* start raft groups on replicas when a strongly-consistent tablet_map reaches them
* add strongly-consistent version of the storage_proxy, with the `query` and `mutate` methods
* the `mutate` method submits a command to the tablets raft group, the query method reads the data with `raft.read_barrier()`
* strongly-consistent versions of the `select_statement` and `modification_statement` are added
* a basic `test_strong_consistency.py/test_basic_write_read` is added which to check that we can write and read data in a strongly consistent fashion.
Limitations:
* for now the strongly consistent tables can have tablets only on shard zero. This is because we (ab/re) use the existing raft system tables which live only on shard0. In the next PRs we'll create separate tables for the new tablets raft groups.
* No Scylla-side proxying - the test has to figure out who is the leader and submit the command to the right node. This will be fixed separately.
* No tablet balancing -- migration/split/merges require separate complicated code.
The new behavior is hidden behind `STRONGLY_CONSISTENT_TABLES` feature, which is enabled when the `STRONGLY_CONSISTENT_TABLES` experimental feature flag is set.
Requirements, specs and general overview of the feature can be found [here](https://scylladb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RND/pages/91422722/Strong+Consistency). Short term implementation plan is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afKeeHaCkKxER7IThHkaAQlh2JWpbqhFLIQ3CzmiXhI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.thkorgfek290)
One can check the strongly consistent writes and reads locally via cqlsh:
scylla.yaml:
```
experimental_features:
- strongly-consistent-tables
```
cqlsh:
```
CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS my_ks WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1} AND tablets = {'initial': 1} AND consistency = 'local';
CREATE TABLE my_ks.test (pk int PRIMARY KEY, c int);
INSERT INTO my_ks.test (pk, c) VALUES (10, 20);
SELECT * FROM my_ks.test WHERE pk = 10;
```
Fixes SCYLLADB-34
Fixes SCYLLADB-32
Fixes SCYLLADB-31
Fixes SCYLLADB-33
Fixes SCYLLADB-56
backport: no need
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27614
* https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb:
test_encryption: capture stderr
test/cluster: add test_strong_consistency.py
raft_group_registry: disable metrics for non-0 groups
strong consistency: implement select_statement::do_execute()
cql: add select_statement.cc
strong consistency: implement coordinator::query()
cql: add modification_statement
cql: add statement_helpers
strong consistency: implement coordinator::mutate()
raft.hh: make server::wait_for_leader() public
strong_consistency: add coordinator
modification_statement: make get_timeout public
strong_consistency: add groups_manager
strong_consistency: add state_machine and raft_command
table: add get_max_timestamp_for_tablet
tablets: generate raft group_id-s for new table
tablet_replication_strategy: add consistency field
tablets: add raft_group_id
modification_statement: remove virtual where it's not needed
modification_statement: inline prepare_statement()
system_keyspace: disable tablet_balancing for strongly_consistent_tables
cql: rename strongly_consistent statements to broadcast statements
This patch adds links to the Vector Search documentation that is hosted
together with Scylla Cloud docs to the CQL documentation.
It also make the note about supported capabilities consistent and
removes the experimental label as the feature is GAed.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-371
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28312
Allows other topology operations to execute while tablets are being
drained on decommission. In particular, bootstrap on scale-out. This
is important for elasticity.
Allows multiple decommission/removenode to happen in parallel, which
is important for efficiency.
Flow of decommission/removenode request:
1) pending and paused, has tablet replicas on target node.
Tablet scheduler will start draining tablets.
2) No tablets on target node, request is pending but not paused
3) Request is scheduled, node is in transition
4) Request is done
Nodes are considered draining as soon as there is a leave or remove
request on them. If there are tablet replicas present on the target
node, the request is in a paused state and will not be picked by
topology coordinator. The paused state is computed from topology state
automatically on reload.
When request is not paused, its execution starts in
write_both_read_old state. The old tablet_draining state is not
entered (it's deprecated now).
Tablet load balancing will yield the state machine as soon as some
request is no longer paused and ready to be scheduled, based on
standard preemption mechanics.
Fixes#21452Closesscylladb/scylladb#24129
* https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb:
docs: Document parallel decommission and removenode and relevant task API
test: Add tests for parallel decommission/removenode
test: util: Introduce ensure_group0_leader_on()
test: tablets: Check that there are no migrations scheduled on draining nodes
test: lib: topology_builder: Introduce add_draining_request()
topology_coordinator, tablets: Fail draining operations when tablet migration fails due to critical disk utilization
tablets: topology_coordinator: Refactor to propagate reason for migration rollback
tablet_allocator: Skip co-location on draining nodes
node_ops: task_manager_module: Populate entity field also for active requests
tasks: node_ops: Put node id in the entity field
tasks, node_ops: Unify setting of task_stats in get_status() and get_stats()
topology: Protect against empty cancelation reason
tasks, topology: Make pending node operations abortable
doc: topology-over-raft.md: Fix diagram for replacing, tablet_draining is not engaged
raft_topology, tablets: Drain tablets in parallel with other topology operations
virtual_tables: Show draining and excluded fields in system.cluster_status and system.load_by_node
locator: topology: Add "draining" flag to a node
topology_coordinator: Extract generate_cancel_request_update()
storage_service: Drop dependency in topology_state_machine.hh in the header
locator: Extract common code in assert_rf_rack_valid_keyspace()
topology_coordinator, storage_service: Validate node removal/decommission at request submission time
Add enforce_rack_list option. When the option is set to true,
all tablet keyspaces have rack list replication factor.
When the option is on:
- CREATE STATEMENT always auto-extends rf to rack lists;
- ALTER STATEMENT fails when there is numeric rf in any DC.
The flag is set to false by default and a node needs to be restarted
in order to change its value. Starting a node with enforce_rack_list
option will fail, if there are any tablet keyspaces with numeric rf
in any DC.
enforce_rack_list is a per-node option and a user needs to ensure
that no tablet keyspace is altered or created while nodes in
the cluster don't have the consistent value.
Mark rf_rack_valid_keyspaces as deprecated.
Fixes: https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/issues/26399.
New feature; no backport needed
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28084
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test: add test for enforce_rack_list option
db: mark rf_rack_valid_keyspaces as deprecated
config: add enforce_rack_list option
Revert "alternator: require rf_rack_valid_keyspaces when creating index"
Adds a "sstables" array member to manifest.json.
For each sstables, keep the following metadata:
id - a uuid for the sstable (the sstable identifier
if the use-sstable-identifier option was used, otherwise
the sstable uuid generation)
toc_name - the name of the TOC.txt file
data_size and index_size - in bytes
first_token and last_token - of the sstable first and last keys.
Fixes: SCYLLADB-196
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
Add a table member to manifest.json with the keyspace_name,
table_name, table_id, tablets_type, and, for tablets-enabled tables, get
tablet_count on each shard and write the minimum to manifest.json.
For vnodes-based tables, tablet_count=0.
For now, `tablets_type` may be either `none` for vnodes tables, or
`powof2` for tablets tables. In the future, when we support arbitrary
tablt boundaries, this will be reflected here, and it is likely we
would backup the whole tablets map sperately to get all tablet boundaries.
Fixes SCYLLADB-195
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
Add metadata about the node: host_id, datacenter, and rack.
This enables dc- or rack- aware restore.
Today this information is "encoded" into the snapshot hierarchy
prefixes, but if all manifest files would be stored in a flat
directory, we'd need to encode that metadata in the object name,
but it'd be better for the manifest contents to be self descriptive.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
Add metadata about the manifest itself:
A version and the manifest scope (currently "node",
but in the future, may also be "shard", or "tablet")
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
Validate the manifest.json format by loading it using rjson::parse
and then validate its contents to ensure it lists exactly the
SSTables present in the snapshot directory.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
In preparation for upcoming work on strongly consistent queries in
Scylla, this commit renames the existing `strongly_consistent`
statements to `broadcast_statements` to avoid confusion.
The old code paths are kept temporarily, as they may be useful for
reference or for copying parts during the implementation of the new
strongly consistent statements.
This series introduces `rescoring` index option.
There is no rescoring algorithm implementation yet.
This series prepares it by:
- adding new index option
- adding documentation
- adding tests for option handling
- adding tests for rescoring implementation - at this point they report errors and are marked that this is expected, because rescoring is not implemented.
Follow-up https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb/pull/27677
Fixes https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-293
Fixes https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-294
No backporting - it is a new feature.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28165
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
vector_search: Add more rescoring validation tests
vector_search: Add rescoring validation test
vector_search: doc: Document new index option
vector_search: test: Add `rescoring` index option test
vector_index: introduce rescoring option
vector_index: improve options validation
This reverts commit c8cff94a5a.
Re-enabling incremental repair on master with "Aborting on shard 0 during
scaleout + repair #26041" and "Failure to attach sstables in streaming consumer
leaves sealed sstables on disk #27414" fixed.
Signed-off-by: Raphael S. Carvalho <raphaelsc@scylladb.com>
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28120
Mark rf_rack_valid_keyspaces option as deprecated. User should
use enforce_rack_list option instead.
The option can still be used and it does not change it's behavior.
Docs is updated accordingly.
This patch adds vector index options allowing to enable quantization and oversampling.
Specific quantization value will be used internally by vector store.
In the current implementation, get_oversampling allows us to decide how many times more candidates
to retrieve from vector store - final response is still trimmed to the given limit.
It is a first step to allow rescoring - recalculation of similarity metric and re-ranking.
Without rescoring oversampling will be also further optimized to happen internally in vector store.
`test/vector_search/rescoring_test.cc` implements basic tests of added functionality.
New options are documented in `docs/cql/secondary-indexes.rst`.
Fixes https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-82
Ref https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/SCYLLADB-83
New feature - no backporting
Closesscylladb/scylladb#27677
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
vector_search: doc: Document new index options
vector_search: test: Test oversampling
vector_search: test: Add rescoring index options test
vector_search: test: Extract Configure utility to shared header
vector_index: introduce `quantization` and `oversampling` options
`effective_capacity` is a value used in size based load balancing. It contains the sum of available disk space of a node and all the tablet sizes.
This change adds this value to the virtual table `system.load_per_node`. This can be useful for debugging size based load balancing.
Size based load balancing is currently only on master, so no backport is needed.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28220
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
docs: add effective_capacity to system keyspace docs
virtual_table: add effective_capacity to load_per_node
Our glossary is stuck in the past, still discussing token ownership in
terms of vnodes and cluster synchronization in terms of gossip.
This patch tries to improve this a bit, although much more work needs to
be done.
The term `Tablet` is added and the definition of `Token` and `Token
Range` is rephrased to be tablet inclusive.
The term `Cluster` is changed to mention raft as the synchronization
mechanism instead of gossip.
One oustanding problem is that our general architecture page describing
the ring acrhitecture is still Vnode only. We have a seprate Tablets
page, but the two don't link to each other and most documentation refer
only to the former. A casual reader might be able to spend a a lot of
time on our documentation page, without even seeing the word: tablets.
Closesscylladb/scylladb#28170
