v24.1.8

[piyushredpanda]

Bug Fixes

• fixed overflow that may lead to unnecessary moves by @mmaslankaprv in #19803
• rpk cluster config get: does not round float numbers anymore. by @r-vasquez in #18850
• PR #18835 [v24.1.x] Fixed possible log discrepancy when using forced reconfiguration by @mmaslankaprv
• PR #19313 [v24.1.x] cpu_profiler: prealloc result buffers by @StephanDollberg
• PR #19801 [v24.1.x] s/disk_log_impl: don't prefix-truncate empty segments by @ztlpn
• PR #19808 [v24.1.x] t/fetch_test: wait longer for leadership after stepping down by @mmaslankaprv

Improvements

• Run directory walking during cache trimming concurrently. On some deployments it was observed that it can take hours for 600K objects with busy reactor during which fetch operations that need to cache data are blocked. by @nvartolomei in #19815
• #19831 Don't try to transfer leadership to just restarted nodes when balancing leaders. by @ztlpn in #19832
• new metric providing more insight into recovery process by @mmaslankaprv in #18840
• reduced the amount of data required to transfer over the network by @mmaslankaprv in #19834
• PR #18854 [v24.1.x] cst: manual backport of chunk download changes PR 18278 by @abhijat

Full Changelog: v24.1.7...v24.1.8

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