ClickHouse/docs/changelogs/v20.5.4.40-stable.md

### ClickHouse release v20.5.4.40-stable FIXME as compared to v20.5.3.27-stable

#### Performance Improvement
* Backported in [#12929](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12929): Fix "[#10574](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/10574) Index not used for IN operator with literals", performance regression introduced around v19.3. [#12062](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12062) ([nvartolomei](https://github.com/nvartolomei)).

#### Bug Fix
* Backported in [#12830](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12830): Fix performance for selects with `UNION` caused by wrong limit for the total number of threads. Fixes [#12030](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12030). [#12103](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12103) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#12836](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12836): Fixed the behaviour when `SummingMergeTree` engine sums up columns from partition key. Added an exception in case of explicit definition of columns to sum which intersects with partition key columns. This fixes [#7867](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/7867). [#12173](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12173) ([Nikita Mikhaylov](https://github.com/nikitamikhaylov)).
* Backported in [#12833](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12833): Fixed the behaviour when during multiple sequential inserts in `StorageFile` header for some special types was written more than once. This fixed [#6155](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/6155). [#12197](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12197) ([Nikita Mikhaylov](https://github.com/nikitamikhaylov)).
* Backported in [#12895](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12895): kafka: fix SIGSEGV if there is an message with error in the middle of the batch. [#12302](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12302) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
* Backported in [#12905](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12905): Fix TOTALS/ROLLUP/CUBE for aggregate functions with `-State` and `Nullable` arguments. This fixes [#12163](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12163). [#12376](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12376) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Backported in [#12907](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12907): Allow to CLEAR column even if there are depending DEFAULT expressions. This fixes [#12333](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12333). [#12378](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12378) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Backported in [#12909](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12909): Avoid exception when negative or floating point constant is used in WHERE condition for indexed tables. This fixes [#11905](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/11905). [#12384](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12384) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Backported in [#12897](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12897): Fix crash in JOIN with dictionary when we are joining over expression of dictionary key: `t JOIN dict ON expr(dict.id) = t.id`. Disable dictionary join optimisation for this case. [#12458](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12458) ([Artem Zuikov](https://github.com/4ertus2)).
* Backported in [#13004](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13004): Fixed performance issue, while reading from compact parts. [#12492](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12492) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)).
* Backported in [#12892](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12892): Fixing race condition in live view tables which could cause data duplication. [#12519](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12519) ([vzakaznikov](https://github.com/vzakaznikov)).
* Backported in [#12888](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12888): Now ClickHouse will recalculate checksums for parts when file `checksums.txt` is absent. Broken since [#9827](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/9827). [#12545](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12545) ([alesapin](https://github.com/alesapin)).
* Backported in [#12873](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12873): Fix error `Output of TreeExecutor is not sorted` for `OPTIMIZE DEDUPLICATE`. Fixes [#11572](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/11572). [#12613](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12613) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#12885](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12885): Fix possible `Pipeline stuck` error for queries with external sorting. Fixes [#12617](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12617). [#12618](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12618) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#12876](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12876): Better exception message in disk access storage. [#12625](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12625) ([alesapin](https://github.com/alesapin)).
* Backported in [#12882](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12882): Exception `There is no supertype...` can be thrown during `ALTER ... UPDATE` in unexpected cases (e.g. when subtracting from UInt64 column). This fixes [#7306](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/7306). This fixes [#4165](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/4165). [#12633](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12633) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Backported in [#12879](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12879): Add support for function `if` with `Array(UUID)` arguments. This fixes [#11066](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/11066). [#12648](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12648) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
* Backported in [#12972](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12972): Fix SIGSEGV in StorageKafka when broker is unavailable (and not only). [#12658](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12658) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
* Backported in [#12860](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12860): fixes [#10572](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/10572) fix bloom filter index with const expression. [#12659](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12659) ([Winter Zhang](https://github.com/zhang2014)).
* Backported in [#12869](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12869): fixes [#12293](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12293) allow push predicate when subquery contains with clause. [#12663](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12663) ([Winter Zhang](https://github.com/zhang2014)).
* Backported in [#12866](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12866): Fix memory tracking for input_format_parallel_parsing (by attaching thread to group). [#12672](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12672) ([Azat Khuzhin](https://github.com/azat)).
* Backported in [#13185](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13185): Fix performance with large tuples, which are interpreted as functions in `IN` section. The case when user write `WHERE x IN tuple(1, 2, ...)` instead of `WHERE x IN (1, 2, ...)` for some obscure reason. [#12700](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12700) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)).
* Backported in [#13032](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13032): Corrected merge_with_ttl_timeout logic which did not work well when expiration affected more than one partition over one time interval. (Authored by @excitoon). [#12982](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12982) ([Alexander Kazakov](https://github.com/Akazz)).
* Backported in [#13047](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13047): Fix `Block structure mismatch` error for queries with `UNION` and `JOIN`. Fixes [#12602](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12602). [#12989](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/12989) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#13050](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13050): Fix crash which was possible for queries with `ORDER BY` tuple and small `LIMIT`. Fixes [#12623](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12623). [#13009](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/13009) ([Nikolai Kochetov](https://github.com/KochetovNicolai)).
* Backported in [#13144](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13144): Fix wrong index analysis with functions. It could lead to pruning wrong parts, while reading from `MergeTree` tables. Fixes [#13060](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/13060). Fixes [#12406](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/12406). [#13081](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/13081) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)).