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Features
rpk sql debug bundlecollects a diagnostic bundle from an Oxla (SQL) cluster. by @Bixkog in #31078 by @tyson-redpanda in #31294rpk generate grafana-dashboardgains a newoperations-stretchdashboard: a Grafana dashboard for stretch clusters managed by the Redpanda Operator, covering cross-cluster raft health, StretchCluster member status, and operator reconcile health. Generate it withrpk generate grafana-dashboard --dashboard operations-stretch. by @RafalKorepta in #31641rpk generate grafana-dashboardnow offers aload-factordashboard showing utilization relative to capacity for key broker resources (CPU, IO scheduler, disk IOPS, memory, network bandwidth, client connections). by @travisdowns in #31555- rpk now supports Shadow Link role sync in Redpanda Cloud clusters by @r-vasquez in #31625
- rpk shadow update now accepts a --config-file flag to apply a configuration file directly. by @r-vasquez in #31329
Bug Fixes
- Fix the registered config name for
leader_balancer_node_mute_timeout. by @WillemKauf in #31359 - Fixed Schema Registry aborting the broker when a request failed before
its deferred authorization check with
schema_registry_enable_authorizationenabled. Such requests now return an error response. by @nguyen-andrew in #31590 - Fixed a crash that could occur when removing a partition with a very large number of log segments, e.g. during partition rebalancing. by @pgellert in #31503
- Fixed a crash where a snapshot write failing on a full disk (ENOSPC) aborted the node with a misleading "snapshot writer has to be closed" assertion instead of surfacing the I/O error. by @nvartolomei in #31277
- Fixed a crash where a snapshot write failing on a full disk (ENOSPC) aborted the node with a misleading "snapshot writer has to be closed" assertion instead of surfacing the I/O error. by @nvartolomei in #31180 by @tyson-redpanda in #31294
- Fixed a race in the internal Kafka client where a concurrent request on a freshly established SASL connection could be sent before authentication finished, causing the broker to drop the connection. by @nvartolomei in #31273
- Fixed a race in the internal Kafka client where a concurrent request on a freshly established SASL connection could be sent before authentication finished, causing the broker to drop the connection. by @nvartolomei in #31152 by @tyson-redpanda in #31294
- Fixes a bug in timequeries on cloud topics which could result in returning an offset up to one indexing interval (
4_MiBof records by default) later than the first record at or after the requested timestamp by @WillemKauf in #31417 - Fixes a bug in which L0 batches in a cloud topic forgot to preserve
last_offset_deltain their header, leading to