redpanda-data/redpanda v26.1.2 on GitHub

Bug Fixes

Fix an issue where slow replication could cause audit log produce RPCs to pile up effectively unbounded, eventually exhausting memory on the server shard. by @oleiman in #30049
Fixed a reactor stall in the producer state cache when many producers
are unevictable due to inflight requests or open transactions. by @travisdowns in #30014

Add Group: principal support to rpk security role assign/unassign and remove the explicit --group flag to prevent confusion by @graham-rp in #29996
Don't error on potentially unknown cluster properties when attempting to issue removal requests through the admin API. by @WillemKauf in #30060

PR #29908 cluster: Add greedy topic aware balancer by @StephanDollberg
PR #29942 tests: Don't forward Azurite port to host by @StephanDollberg
PR #29957 [v26.1.x] rptest/datalake/verifier: skip assertions in stop() on wait() failure by @nvartolomei
PR #29967 [v26.1.x] ct/l1: reduce noise from topic purger retries by @andrwng
PR #29974 [v26.1.x] cloud_storage_clients: remove TLS builder from client config by @nvartolomei
PR #29976 [v26.1.x] Remove rpk security group commands by @graham-rp
PR #29990 [v26.1.x] rptest: fix cross-region read replica test for AWS/CDT by @nvartolomei
PR #29993 [v26.1.x] ct: add metastore validation by @andrwng
PR #30000 [v26.1.x] Cloud Topics: Deflake L0 GC integration tests and also consolidate them significantly by @oleiman
PR #30001 [v26.1.x] ct/l1: add num_extents to debug rows by @andrwng
PR #30031 [v26.1.x] ct/l0: hold gate in list_delete_worker::next_page() by @WillemKauf
PR #30032 [v26.1.x] rptest: avoid large alloc in abs cloud validation tests by @nvartolomei
PR #30033 [v26.1.x] rptest/datalake/verifier: fix consumer close race with poll thread by @nvartolomei
PR #30038 [v26.1.x] cluster: reduce parallel_for_each() batch size to 512 by @WillemKauf
PR #30055 [v26.1.x] Cloud Topics: Improve backoff algorithm in L0 GC by @oleiman
PR #30065 [v26.1.x] [CORE-15431] rptest: wait longer for valid offsets file to appear by @WillemKauf

Full Changelog: v26.1.1...v26.1.2