Seata Weekly Report: Nov 23-29, 2025 Analysis

Seata Weekly Report: November 23-29, 2025

Hey folks, here's the lowdown on the apache/incubator-seata project for the week of November 23rd to 29th, 2025. This report was generated on December 4th, 2025, at 10:29:30 AM (Beijing Time). Let's dive in!

📊 Overview

• Issues: 5
• Pull Requests (PRs): 8

I. Pull Request Analysis

🔍 PR Scoreboard

PR	Title	Author	Type	Size	Score	Status
PR-7808	test: fix non-deterministic in PK value	XiaoyangCai360	fix	medium	89.0	closed ✅
PR-7807	optimize: support mariadb 3.x	lokidundun	feat	small	88.5	open
PR-7812	Feature/cpm server endpoints	Oscarcheng0312	feat	large	87.5	open
PR-7809	optimize: optimize README.md	slievrly	fix	medium	86.0	open
PR-7819	test: bugfix brittle RPC status test	cperkkk	fix	small	83.5	open
PR-7818	refactor: run the HTTP filter as a chain	funky-eyes	fix	large	82.5	closed ✅
PR-7815	test: fix combine test to avoid failure	cperkkk	fix	small	82.0	open
PR-7813	optimize: add decode buffer limit	slievrly	fix	small	76.0	closed ✅

💡 Key PR Deep Dive

PR-7808: test: fix non-deterministic in PK value comparison across multiple Insert Executor tests

Basic Info	Key Metrics	Overall Score
Author: XiaoyangCai360 Type: fix Priority: P3 Size: medium Status: closed ✅	Files Changed: 7 Added: +42 Removed: -85 Commits: 2	89.0 (Excellent)

Dimension Scores (0-10 points)

Dimension	Score
Code Quality	9
Test Coverage	10
Documentation & Maintainability	8
Compliance & Security	10
Impact Scope Rationality	9
PR Value & Impact	9

🤖 AI Analysis & Recommendations

Core Value: This PR addressed non-deterministic failures in 10 unit tests caused by the reliance on HashMap traversal order, significantly improving CI build stability. While not involving production code, it's crucial for ensuring continuous integration reliability. Key Highlights: The root cause of the flaky tests was accurately identified. Assertions.assertEquals was used correctly and concisely instead of the error-prone assertIterableEquals, the fix was precise and consistent, covering all related database executor tests. Suggestions for Improvement: Consider suggesting the future introduction of frameworks like RandomizedTesting to proactively expose similar problems, further enhancing test robustness in the PR description. Overall Assessment: This is a high-quality test refactoring. The impact scope is reasonable (limited to test code). It effectively eliminates potential CI interference factors and demonstrates the author's deep understanding of test reliability. The merge decision was appropriate.

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PR-7807: optimize: support mariadb 3.x

Basic Info	Key Metrics	Overall Score
Author: lokidundun Type: feat Priority: P1 Size: small Status: open	Files Changed: 4 Added: +36 Removed: -10 Commits: 10	88.5 (Excellent)

Dimension Scores (0-10 points)

Dimension	Score
Code Quality	9
Test Coverage	8
Documentation & Maintainability	9
Compliance & Security	10
Impact Scope Rationality	9
PR Value & Impact	9

🤖 AI Analysis & Recommendations

Core Value: This PR provides key adaptation for Seata to support the MariaDB 3.x database, resolving compatibility issues raised in Issue-5454. It enhances the system's ability to support new database versions, with clear business and technical value. Key Highlights: Code modifications are precise, focused on driver recognition and connection configuration logic for XA transaction utility classes, the changes are concise and targeted; new test cases cover MariaDB 3.x scenarios, improving code reliability; and documentation has been updated synchronously, which is in line with project standards. Suggestions for Improvement: Although tests have been added, it is recommended to verify the behavior consistency of actual XA transactions in the MariaDB 3.x environment at the integration test level to further ensure production availability. Overall Assessment: Although the scope of the changes in this PR is small, the issues resolved are important and urgent. The scope of the impact is reasonable, and it is a high-quality feature enhancement. It has a positive role in maintaining Seata's database compatibility ecosystem.

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PR-7812: Feature/cpm server endpoints

Basic Info	Key Metrics	Overall Score
Author: Oscarcheng0312 Type: feat Priority: P1 Size: large Status: open	Files Changed: 35 Added: +4401 Removed: -200 Commits: 5	87.5 (Excellent)

Dimension Scores (0-10 points)

Dimension	Score
Code Quality	9
Test Coverage	7
Documentation & Maintainability	8
Compliance & Security	9
Impact Scope Rationality	9
PR Value & Impact	10

🤖 AI Analysis & Recommendations

Core Value: This PR introduces connection pool monitoring and dynamic configuration capabilities to Seata, significantly enhancing the observability and operational flexibility of the system. By exposing server-side metric interfaces and client configuration update endpoints, it supports remote tuning, solving the key operational pain point raised in Issue-7575, with high business value. Key Highlights: The code structure is clear, and responsibilities are well-separated, with reasonable decoupling of REST controllers, service layers, and protocol layers; the addition of the PoolType enum and multi-data source metric support (Druid/Hikari) reflects the design for extensibility; ApiResponse unified encapsulation improves API consistency. Suggestions for Improvement: It is recommended to supplement unit tests to cover exception paths and service update logic for ConnectionPoolController, and to explain the activation conditions (such as seata.enableConnectionPoolMetrics) and security strategies (cross-domain configuration) in the documentation. Overall Assessment: Despite the large scope of the change (35 files), the functionality is complete and the architecture is reasonable. It is a high-value core feature and is expected to significantly improve system maintainability and user experience. Merging is highly reasonable.

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PR-7809: optimize: optimize README.md

Basic Info	Key Metrics	Overall Score
Author: slievrly Type: fix Priority: P3 Size: medium Status: open	Files Changed: 3 Added: +38 Removed: -31 Commits: 3	86.0 (Excellent)

Dimension Scores (0-10 points)

Dimension	Score
Code Quality	9
Test Coverage	10
Documentation & Maintainability	9
Compliance & Security	10
Impact Scope Rationality	8
PR Value & Impact	7

🤖 AI Analysis & Recommendations

Core Value: This PR focuses on optimizing the project's core documentation, README.md, improving readability and information accuracy, which is of great help to new users and contributors. Key Highlights: High code quality, precise modifications, only adjusting necessary content, no redundant changes; at the same time, the Chinese and English change logs were updated synchronously, reflecting good multilingual maintenance awareness, which is in line with the best practices of the open-source community. Suggestions for Improvement: The PR title is relatively general; it is recommended to clarify the specific direction of the optimization (such as structure adjustment, link correction, or content supplement) to enable reviewers to grasp the intent faster; the description section can supplement specific modification points rather than just repeating the title. Overall Assessment: Although it is a documentation fix PR, the impact scope is reasonable and necessary, and it has not been over-modified, maintaining lightness and focus. It has a positive meaning for improving the professional image and user experience of the project and has good collaborative value.

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PR-7819: test: bugfix brittle RPC status test

Basic Info	Key Metrics	Overall Score
Author: cperkkk Type: fix Priority: P3 Size: small Status: open	Files Changed: 1 Added: +4 Removed: -0 Commits: 2	83.5 (Excellent)

Dimension Scores (0-10 points)

Dimension	Score
Code Quality	9
Test Coverage	8
Documentation & Maintainability	7
Compliance & Security	10
Impact Scope Rationality	10
PR Value & Impact	8

🤖 AI Analysis & Recommendations

Core Value: This PR fixes a brittle test case, addressing intermittent failures caused by the uncertainty of test execution order, improving the stability and reliability of the test suite. This is especially important for continuous integration environments, effectively reducing false positives and build fluctuations. Key Highlights: The code changes are concise and precise. Only a small number of modifications eliminate the implicit dependencies on execution order, reflecting good problem analysis capabilities and test design awareness. At the same time, the author verified the stability under different running orders to ensure that the repair scheme has robustness. Suggestions for Improvement: It is recommended to add comments to the test class or method to explain its independence requirements, to enhance maintainability. In addition, you can consider performing consistency checks on other similar tests to prevent similar problems from occurring in other modules. Overall Assessment: Although it is not associated with a specific Issue, this PR has practical engineering value, the impact scope is reasonable, small changes bring high returns, and it significantly improves the test quality of the project, which is worth merging.

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II. Issue Analysis

📊 Issue Stats

• Open: 2 | Closed: 3
• Created This Week: 3 | Updated This Week: 2
• Bug Reports: 3 | Feature Requests: 2 | Other: 0

📅 Issues Created This Week

🐛 New Bug Reports

Issue-7816: The RaftRequestFilter became ineffective

• Author: funky-eyes | Status: open | Comments: 0
• Summary: RaftRequestFilter fails, causing the context not to be bound to the ThreadLocal storage, affecting the context transfer during request processing.

Issue-7814: Global lock wait timeout; Global lock wait timeout; global_table status is 12, how to release the lock?

• Author: zhengyue12 | Status: closed | Comments: 2
• Summary: Seata global lock wait timeout, the record in global_table is 12, due to MQTT service downtime, the transaction did not end normally, the lock cannot be released, need to manually clean up or restore the mechanism to solve.

✨ New Feature Requests

Issue-7817: The HTTP thread context should include the request and response objects

• Author: funky-eyes | Status: closed | Comments: 2
• Summary: The HTTP thread context should include request and response objects so that Spring's aspect functions can access the input and output parameters of the current request, supporting subsequent processing. Currently, there is a lack of this support, which affects the implementation of context-based enhancement logic.

🔄 Updated Issues

🐛 Updated Bug Reports

Issue-7791: seata and shardingsphere integration found that local transactions were not committed

• Author: john1337 | Status: closed | Comments: 1
• Summary: When Seata is integrated with ShardingSphere, the global transaction sends a commit request to Seata-Server, but the local AT transaction data is not committed to the database, resulting in the local transaction not taking effect. It is expected that the local transaction can be normally stored in the database.

✨ Updated Feature Requests

Issue-7646: Seata Benchmark 1.0 Development Task

• Author: l81893521 | Status: open | Comments: 2
• Summary: Develop the Seata Benchmark 1.0 command-line tool for stress testing AT, TCC, Saga, and other transaction modes, and display key data changes in real-time in the global_table and branch_table, filling the gap of a lack of dedicated performance testing tools.

📄 Full Report & Scoring Criteria

Detailed Reports

For a more in-depth look, check out the reports/ directory in the repository.

Scoring Breakdown

Overall Score Levels:

Score Range	Level	Description
>80	Excellent	High code quality, comprehensive test coverage, complete documentation, secure compliance, outstanding impact scope and value
60-80	Good	High overall quality, with some room for improvement
<60	Fair	Basically meets requirements, but with significant areas for improvement

Dimension Scores (0-10 points):

• Code Quality: Code style, readability, design patterns, best practices
• Test Coverage: Unit tests, integration tests, boundary case coverage
• Documentation & Maintainability: Code comments, documentation updates, maintainability
• Compliance & Security: Security vulnerabilities, compliance, dependency security
• Impact Scope Rationality: Score based on the importance and impact scope matching of the PR. If the PR is important and has a large impact scope, this is reasonable; if the PR is not important but has a large impact scope, it will increase the difficulty of review and is not very necessary and should be scored lower. Consider whether the impact scope matches the importance of the PR, backward compatibility, and the impact on the system
• PR Value & Impact: The core function of the PR, business value, function importance, and whether it solves key issues

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