ClickHouse/docs/changelogs/v23.8.4.69-lts.md

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# 2023 Changelog

### ClickHouse release v23.8.4.69-lts (d4d1e7b9ded) FIXME as compared to v23.8.3.48-lts (ebe4eb3d23e)

#### Build/Testing/Packaging Improvement
* Backported in [#55673](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/55673): If the database is already initialized, it doesn't need to be initialized again upon subsequent launches. This can potentially fix the issue of infinite container restarts when the database fails to load within 1000 attempts (relevant for very large databases and multi-node setups). [#50724](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/50724) ([Alexander Nikolaev](https://github.com/AlexNik)).
* Backported in [#55293](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/55293): Resource with source code including submodules is built in Darwin special build task. It may be used to build ClickHouse without checkouting submodules. [#51435](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/51435) ([Ilya Yatsishin](https://github.com/qoega)).
* Backported in [#55366](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/55366): Solve issue with launching standalone clickhouse-keeper from clickhouse-server package. [#55226](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55226) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Backported in [#55725](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/55725): Fix integration check python script to use gh api url - Add Readme for CI tests. [#55716](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55716) ([Max K.](https://github.com/mkaynov)).

#### Bug Fix (user-visible misbehavior in an official stable release)

* Fix "Invalid number of rows in Chunk" in MaterializedPostgreSQL [#54844](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54844) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
* Move obsolete format settings to separate section [#54855](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54855) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)).
* Fix: insert quorum w/o keeper retries [#55026](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55026) ([Igor Nikonov](https://github.com/devcrafter)).
* Prevent attaching parts from tables with different projections or indices [#55062](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55062) ([János Benjamin Antal](https://github.com/antaljanosbenjamin)).
* Proper cleanup in case of exception in ctor of ShellCommandSource [#55103](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55103) ([Alexander Gololobov](https://github.com/davenger)).
* Fix deadlock in LDAP assigned role update [#55119](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55119) ([Julian Maicher](https://github.com/jmaicher)).
* Fix for background download in fs cache [#55252](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55252) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
* Fix functions execution over sparse columns [#55275](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55275) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
* Fix bug with inability to drop detached partition in replicated merge tree on top of S3 without zero copy [#55309](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55309) ([alesapin](https://github.com/alesapin)).
* Fix trash optimization (up to a certain extent) [#55353](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55353) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Fix parsing of arrays in cast operator [#55417](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55417) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)).
* Fix filtering by virtual columns with OR filter in query [#55418](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55418) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
* Fix MongoDB connection issues [#55419](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55419) ([Nikolay Degterinsky](https://github.com/evillique)).
* Destroy fiber in case of exception in cancelBefore in AsyncTaskExecutor [#55516](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55516) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)).
* Fix crash in QueryNormalizer with cyclic aliases [#55602](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55602) ([vdimir](https://github.com/vdimir)).
* Fix filtering by virtual columns with OR filter in query (resubmit) [#55678](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55678) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).

#### NO CL CATEGORY

* Backported in [#55706](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/55706):. [#55657](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55657) ([Antonio Andelic](https://github.com/antonio2368)).

#### NOT FOR CHANGELOG / INSIGNIFICANT

* S3 artifacts [#54504](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54504) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Fix CI skip build and skip tests checks [#54532](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54532) ([SmitaRKulkarni](https://github.com/SmitaRKulkarni)).
* Update WebObjectStorage.cpp [#54695](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54695) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
* Do not set PR status label [#54799](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/54799) ([vdimir](https://github.com/vdimir)).
* Get rid of the most of `os.path` stuff [#55028](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55028) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Clean data dir and always start an old server version in aggregate functions compatibility test. [#55105](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55105) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* check if block is empty after async insert retries [#55143](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55143) ([Han Fei](https://github.com/hanfei1991)).
* MaterializedPostgreSQL: remove back check [#55297](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55297) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
* Remove existing moving/ dir if allow_remove_stale_moving_parts is off [#55480](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55480) ([Mike Kot](https://github.com/myrrc)).
* Bump curl to 8.4 [#55492](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/55492) ([Robert Schulze](https://github.com/rschu1ze)).