What's Changed
- Fix 6132: retry topic creation on missing controller leader by @rystsov in #6555
- Partition balancer full_nodes test: wait until the balancer is stable by @ztlpn in #6587
- ducktape: partition balancer status add retries by @ZeDRoman in #6505
- cloud_storage: fix stale materialized segment gc logic when force gc is requested by @abhijat in #6578
- Validate under replicated metric after consumer is done by @mmaslankaprv in #6583
- Backport of #6619 by @mmaslankaprv in #6632
Full Changelog: v22.2.4...v22.2.5-rc1