v23.3.21

[piyushredpanda]

Features

• #22957 Schema Registry: added support for the "verbose" query parameter on the schema compatibility checker endpoint by @pgellert in #23028

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a segfault that will occur if mTLS is in use and the auditing client is not configured correctly by @michael-redpanda in #23289
• Fixed possible oversized alloc in the DescribeLogsDir API handler by @michael-redpanda in #23292
• Fixes a bug that would cause retention to be applied to compact-only tiered storage topics. by @andrwng in #23361
• Fixes a regression in schema registry where concurrent requests could lead to memory faults by @oleiman in #23137
• Return NOT_COORDINATOR immediately in group transactional operations if the broker is aware that it is not the group coordinator. by @ztlpn in #23187
• #23108 Schema Registry: fixes a bug in the protobuf compatibility checks of nested fields where nested paths were incorrectly handled. by @pgellert in #23170
• #23222 Fixes a bug that resulted in persisting an invalid topic_properties configuration in the topic_table. by @WillemKauf in #23227

Improvements

• #23079 Schema Registry: Tolerate null metadata and ruleSet when registering or querying a schema by @BenPope in #23081
• #23108 Schema Registry: now reports more specific error messages for Avro and Protobuf schemas when they are incompatible with earlier schemas. by @pgellert in #23170
• PR #23238 [v23.3.x] config: mark cloud_storage_enabled() as needs_restart::yes by @WillemKauf

Full Changelog: v23.3.20...v23.3.21

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