v24.1.17

[piyushredpanda]

Features

• rpk: supports triggering on-demand partition balancer by @daisukebe in #23395

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a segfault that will occur if mTLS is in use and the auditing client is not configured correctly by @michael-redpanda in #23290
• Fixed possible oversized alloc in the DescribeLogsDir API handler by @michael-redpanda in #23293
• Fixes a bug that would cause retention to be applied to compact-only tiered storage topics. by @andrwng in #23360
• Return NOT_COORDINATOR immediately in group transactional operations if the broker is aware that it is not the group coordinator. by @ztlpn in #23188
• #23221 Fixes a bug that resulted in persisting an invalid topic_properties configuration in the topic_table. by @WillemKauf in #23226

Improvements

• rpk connect now will be downloaded on the first run. by @r-vasquez in #23352
• rpk: introduce rpk connect install, rpk connect upgrade, and rpk connect uninstall, manual ways to manage rpk connect versioning. by @r-vasquez in #23352
• PR #23128 [v24.1.x] c/members_table: include members table version in the snapshot by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #23235 [v24.1.x] CORE-7049 dt/rbac: wait for healthy cluster after restart by @pgellert
• PR #23237 [v24.1.x] config: mark cloud_storage_enabled() as needs_restart::yes by @WillemKauf
• PR #23362 [v24.1.x] admin: add cloud_storage_cache_size check to config_multi_property_validation() (manual backport) by @WillemKauf
• PR #23377 [v24.1.x] Remove some warnings and ignored errors from ducktape log by @ivotron

Full Changelog: v24.1.16...v24.1.17

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This discussion was created from the release v24.1.17.