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### ClickHouse release 24.6, 2024-07-01. [Presentation](https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2024-release-24.6/), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK-x8lpvOQw)[​](#a-id246a-clickhouse-release-246-2024-07-01 "Direct link to a-id246a-clickhouse-release-246-2024-07-01")

#### Backward Incompatible Change[​](#backward-incompatible-change-6 "Direct link to Backward Incompatible Change")

- Enable asynchronous load of databases and tables by default. See the `async_load_databases` in config.xml. While this change is fully compatible, it can introduce a difference in behavior. When `async_load_databases` is false, as in the previous versions, the server will not accept connections until all tables are loaded. When `async_load_databases` is true, as in the new version, the server can accept connections before all the tables are loaded. If a query is made to a table that is not yet loaded, it will wait for the table's loading, which can take considerable time. It can change the behavior of the server if it is part of a large distributed system under a load balancer. In the first case, the load balancer can get a connection refusal and quickly failover to another server. In the second case, the load balancer can connect to a server that is still loading the tables, and the query will have a higher latency. Moreover, if many queries accumulate in the waiting state, it can lead to a "thundering herd" problem when they start processing simultaneously. This can make a difference only for highly loaded distributed backends. You can set the value of `async_load_databases` to false to avoid this problem. [#57695](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/57695) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Setting `replace_long_file_name_to_hash` is enabled by default for `MergeTree` tables. [#64457](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/64457) ([Anton Popov](https://github.com/CurtizJ)). This setting is fully compatible, and no actions needed during upgrade. The new data format is supported from all versions starting from 23.9. After enabling this setting, you can no longer downgrade to a version 23.8 or older.
- Some invalid queries will fail earlier during parsing. Note: disabled the support for inline KQL expressions (the experimental Kusto language) when they are put into a `kql` table function without a string literal, e.g. `kql(garbage | trash)` instead of `kql('garbage | trash')` or `kql($$garbage | trash$$)`. This feature was introduced unintentionally and should not exist. [#61500](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/61500) ([Alexey Milovidov](https://github.com/alexey-milovidov)).
- Rework parallel processing in `Ordered` mode of storage `S3Queue`. This PR is backward incompatible for Ordered mode if you used settings `s3queue_processing_threads_num` or `s3queue_total_shards_num`. Setting `s3queue_total_shards_num` is deleted, previously it was allowed to use only under `s3queue_allow_experimental_sharded_mode`, which is now deprecated. A new setting is added - `s3queue_buckets`. [#64349](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/64349) ([Kseniia Sumarokova](https://github.com/kssenii)).
- New functions `snowflakeIDToDateTime`, `snowflakeIDToDateTime64`, `dateTimeToSnowflakeID`, and `dateTime64ToSnowflakeID` were added. Unlike the existing functions `snowflakeToDateTime`, `snowflakeToDateTime64`, `dateTimeToSnowflake`, and `dateTime64ToSnowflake`, the new functions are compatible with function `generateSnowflakeID`, i.e. they accept the snowflake IDs generated by `generateSnowflakeID` and produce snowflake IDs of the same type as `generateSnowflakeID` (i.e. `UInt64`). Furthermore, the new functions default to the UNIX epoch (aka. 1970-01-01), just like `generateSnowflakeID`. If necessary, a different epoch, e.g. Twitter's/X's epoch 2010-11-04 aka. 1288834974657 msec since UNIX epoch, can be passed. The old conversion functions are deprecated and will be removed after a transition period: to use them regardless, enable setting `allow_deprecated_snowflake_conversion_functions`. [#64948](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/64948) ([Robert Schulze](https://github.com/rschu1ze)).

#### New Feature[​](#new-feature-6 "Direct link to New Feature")