# Redpanda v26.2.2

- Product: Redpanda (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/redpanda)
- Vendor: Redpanda Data
- Date: 2026-08-22
- Version: v26.2.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/releases/tag/v26.2.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/redpanda/releases/v26.2.2

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- **added** — rpk sql debug bundle collects a diagnostic bundle from an Oxla (SQL) cluster
- **added** — rpk generate grafana-dashboard gains a new operations-stretch dashboard for stretch clusters managed by the Redpanda Operator
- **added** — rpk generate grafana-dashboard now offers a load-factor dashboard showing utilization relative to capacity for key broker resources
- **added** — rpk now supports Shadow Link role sync in Redpanda Cloud clusters
- **added** — rpk shadow update now accepts a --config-file flag to apply a configuration file directly
- **fixed** — Fix the registered config name for leader_balancer_node_mute_timeout
- **fixed** — Fixed Schema Registry aborting the broker when a request failed before its deferred authorization check with schema_registry_enable_authorization enabled
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash that could occur when removing a partition with a very large number of log segments
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash where a snapshot write failing on a full disk (ENOSPC) aborted the node with a misleading assertion instead of surfacing the I/O error
- **fixed** — Fixed a race in the internal Kafka client where a concurrent request on a freshly established SASL connection could be sent before authentication finished
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug in timequeries on cloud topics which could result in returning an offset later than the first record at or after the requested timestamp
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug in which L0 batches in a cloud topic forgot to preserve last_offset_delta in their header
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug in which timequeries on a cloud topic could either fail by dropping the client connection or by returning an unfetchable offset
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug in which topics with min.compaction.lag.ms left unconfigured with produced batches holding timestamps in the future would be considered ineligible for compaction
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug in which transient TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED errors and SASL authentication failures were possible during application of a controller snapshot
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug where corrupted storage would not yield a bad CRC in returned record batches
- **fixed** — Fixes a bug where having a cloud topic read replica on a given cluster would prevent L0 objects on that cluster from being garbage collected
- **fixed** — Fixes a potential crash in DescribeLogDirs
- **fixed** — Fixes an issue where backpressure from the Iceberg coordinator would cause high CPU load on the translators
- **fixed** — Fixes potential unbounded growth of various s3_fifo users under specific workloads

##### Features
* `rpk sql debug bundle` collects a diagnostic bundle from an Oxla (SQL) cluster. by @Bixkog in [#31078](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31078) by @tyson-redpanda in [#31294](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31294)
* `rpk generate grafana-dashboard` gains a new `operations-stretch` dashboard: a Grafana dashboard for stretch clusters managed by the Redpanda Operator, covering cross-cluster raft health, StretchCluster member status, and operator reconcile health. Generate it with `rpk generate grafana-dashboard --dashboard operations-stretch`. by @RafalKorepta in [#31641](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31641)
* `rpk generate grafana-dashboard` now offers a `load-factor` dashboard showing utilization relative to capacity for key broker resources (CPU, IO scheduler, disk IOPS, memory, network bandwidth, client connections). by @travisdowns in [#31555](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31555)
* rpk now supports Shadow Link role sync in Redpanda Cloud clusters by @r-vasquez in [#31625](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31625)
* rpk shadow update now accepts a --config-file flag to apply a configuration file directly. by @r-vasquez in [#31329](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31329)
##### Bug Fixes
* Fix the registered config name for  `leader_balancer_node_mute_timeout`. by @WillemKauf in [#31359](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31359)
* Fixed Schema Registry aborting the broker when a request failed before
its deferred authorization check with
`schema_registry_enable_authorization` enabled. Such requests now
return an error response. by @nguyen-andrew in [#31590](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31590)
* Fixed a crash that could occur when removing a partition with a very large number of log segments, e.g. during partition rebalancing. by @pgellert in [#31503](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31503)
* Fixed a crash where a snapshot write failing on a full disk (ENOSPC) aborted
the node with a misleading "snapshot writer has to be closed" assertion
instead of surfacing the I/O error. by @nvartolomei in [#31277](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31277)
* Fixed a crash where a snapshot write failing on a full disk (ENOSPC) aborted the node with a misleading "snapshot writer has to be closed" assertion instead of surfacing the I/O error. by @nvartolomei in [#31180](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31180) by @tyson-redpanda in [#31294](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31294)
* Fixed a race in the internal Kafka client where a concurrent request on a
freshly established SASL connection could be sent before authentication
finished, causing the broker to drop the connection. by @nvartolomei in [#31273](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31273)
* Fixed a race in the internal Kafka client where a concurrent request on a freshly established SASL connection could be sent before authentication finished, causing the broker to drop the connection. by @nvartolomei in [#31152](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31152) by @tyson-redpanda in [#31294](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31294)
* Fixes a bug in timequeries on cloud topics which could result in returning an offset up to one indexing interval (`4_MiB` of records by default) later than the first record at or after the requested timestamp by @WillemKauf in [#31417](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31417)
* Fixes a bug in which L0 batches in a cloud topic forgot to preserve `last_offset_delta` in their header, leading to an under-declared last offset which can stall consumers, skip records, or halt exact-offset replication. by @WillemKauf in [#31364](https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/pull/31364)
* Fixes a bug in which timequeries on a cloud topic could either fail by dropping the client connection or by returning an unfetchable off

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