release-5018

What's Changed

• remove gc_feedback mechanism by @problame in #6863
• pageserver: remove two obsolete/unused per-timeline metrics by @problame in #6893
• Timeline::repartition: enforce no concurrent callers & lsn to not move backwards by @problame in #6862
• pageserver: only write out legacy tenant config if no generation by @jcsp in #6891
• Fix test_remote_storage_upload_queue_retries flakiness by @arpad-m in #6898
• Expose LFC cache size limit from sql_exporter by @zaynetro in #6912
• externalize statistics on LFC cache usage by @Bodobolero in #6906
• fixup(#6893): report_size() still used pageserver_created_persistent_* metrics by @problame in #6909
• CI: Delete GitHub Actions caches once PR is closed by @bayandin in #6900
• Update README, include cleanup details by @andreasscherbaum in #6816
• attachment_service: JWT auth enforcement by @VladLazar in #6897
• fix: only alter default privileges when public schema exists by @skyzh in #6914
• test_remote_timeline_client_calls_started_metric: fix flakiness by @problame in #6911
• Show LFC statistic in EXPLAIN by @knizhnik in #6851
• Export connection counts from sql_exporter by @zaynetro in #6926
• fix: logical size calculation gating by @koivunej in #6915
• proxy: introdice is cold start for analytics by @khanova in #6902
• readme: Update Neon link URL by @siegerts in #6918
• Add new compaction abstraction, simulator, and implementation. by @arpad-m in #6830
• refactor: move storage controller API structs into pageserver_api by @jcsp in #6927
• Limit number of AUX files deltas to reduce reconstruct time by @knizhnik in #6874
• fix: allow evicting wanted deleted layers by @koivunej in #6931
• test: wait for storage controller readiness by @VladLazar in #6930
• build: add a timeout for test-images by @koivunej in #6942
• Revert "pageserver: roll open layer in timeline writer (#6661)" + PR #6842 by @problame in #6938
• pageserver: optimise disk io for vectored get by @VladLazar in #6780
• CI: use build-tools image from dockerhub by @bayandin in #6795
• proxy: refactor span usage by @conradludgate in #6946
• English keyboard has "z" and "y" switched by @andreasscherbaum in #6947
• CI(pin-build-tools-image): pass secrets to the job by @bayandin in #6949
• pageserver: accelerate tenant activation on HTTP API timeline read requests by @jcsp in #6944
• CI: create compute-tools image from compute-node image by @bayandin in #6899
• Release 2024-02-28 by @vipvap in #6956
• Release 2024-02-29 by @petuhovskiy in #6973

New Contributors

• @zaynetro made their first contribution in #6912
• @siegerts made their first contribution in #6918

Full Changelog: release-4983...release-5018