v23.2.22

[piyushredpanda]

Bug Fixes

• Redpanda used to accept an empty string in redpanda.rack in node config. This would cause issues in Kafka operations. Redpanda will now error on startup if redpanda.rack is set to an empty string. by @michael-redpanda in #15848
• Redpanda will now correctly handle an empty rack ID provided in a fetch request by @michael-redpanda in #15861
• #15785 Fix a rare bug where http client connections would vanish from the connection pool leading to various operations hanging while waiting for an http client. by @nvartolomei in #15834
• PR #15873 [v23.2.x] c/s/leader_balancer: prevent oversized alloc by @rockwotj

Full Changelog: v23.2.21...v23.2.22

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