### ClickHouse release v24.1.4.20-stable (f59d842b3fa) FIXME as compared to v24.1.3.31-stable (135b08cbd28)
#### Improvement
* Backported in [#59826](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59826): In case when `merge_max_block_size_bytes` is small enough and tables contain wide rows (strings or tuples) background merges may stuck in an endless loop. This behaviour is fixed. Follow-up for https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59340. [#59812](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59812) ([Nikita Mikhaylov](https://github.com/nikitamikhaylov)).
#### Build/Testing/Packaging Improvement
* Backported in [#59885](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59885): If you want to run initdb scripts every time when ClickHouse container is starting you shoud initialize environment varible CLICKHOUSE_ALWAYS_RUN_INITDB_SCRIPTS. [#59808](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59808) ([Alexander Nikolaev](https://github.com/AlexNik)).
#### Bug Fix (user-visible misbehavior in an official stable release)
* Backported in [#59457](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59457): Keeper fix: fix digest calculation for nodes. [#59439](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59439) ([Antonio Andelic](https://github.com/antonio2368)).
* Backported in [#59682](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59682): Fix distributed table with a constant sharding key. [#59606](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59606) ([Vitaly Baranov](https://github.com/vitlibar)).
* Backported in [#59842](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59842): Fix query start time on non initial queries. [#59662](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59662) ([Raúl Marín](https://github.com/Algunenano)).
* Backported in [#59937](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/59937): Fix parsing of partition expressions that are surrounded by parentheses, e.g.: `ALTER TABLE test DROP PARTITION ('2023-10-19')`. [#59901](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59901) ([János Benjamin Antal](https://github.com/antaljanosbenjamin)).
* Temporarily remove a feature that doesn't work [#59688](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59688) ([Alexander Tokmakov](https://github.com/tavplubix)).
* Make ZooKeeper actually sequentialy consistent [#59735](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59735) ([Alexander Tokmakov](https://github.com/tavplubix)).
* Fix special build reports in release branches [#59797](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/59797) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
