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# 2023 Changelog

### ClickHouse release v22.3.18.37-lts (fe512717551) FIXME as compared to v22.3.17.13-lts (fcc4de7e805)

#### Performance Improvement
* Backported in [#46372](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/46372): Fix too big memory usage for vertical merges on non-remote disk. Respect `max_insert_delayed_streams_for_parallel_write` for the remote disk. [#46275](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46275) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#46357](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/46357): Allow using Vertical merge algorithm with parts in Compact format. This will allow ClickHouse server to use much less memory for background operations. This closes [#46084](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/46084). [#46282](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46282) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)).

#### Build/Testing/Packaging Improvement
* Backported in [#45856](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45856): Fix zookeeper downloading, update the version, and optimize the image size. [#44853](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/44853) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).

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

* Backported in [#45620](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45620): Another fix for `Cannot read all data` error which could happen while reading `LowCardinality` dictionary from remote fs. Fixes [#44709](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/44709). [#44875](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/44875) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#45549](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45549): Fix `SELECT ... FROM system.dictionaries` exception when there is a dictionary with a bad structure (e.g. incorrect type in xml config). [#45399](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45399) ([Aleksei Filatov](https://github.com/aalexfvk)).

#### NOT FOR CHANGELOG / INSIGNIFICANT

* Automatically merge green backport PRs and green approved PRs [#41110](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/41110) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Fix wrong approved_at, simplify conditions [#45302](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45302) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Get rid of artifactory in favor of r2 + ch-repos-manager [#45421](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45421) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Another attempt to fix automerge, or at least to have debug footprint [#45476](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45476) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Trim refs/tags/ from GITHUB_TAG in release workflow [#45636](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45636) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Add check for running workflows to merge_pr.py [#45803](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45803) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Get rid of progress timestamps in release publishing [#45818](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45818) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Add helping logging to auto-merge script [#46080](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46080) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).
* Fix write buffer destruction order for vertical merge. [#46205](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/46205) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).