Q4 2023 / Q1 2024 release documentation

Please, make sure that the following features are either documented or don't have to be:
Q4 2023 (11.3)

• MDEV-31684 Add timezone information to DATE_FORMAT
• MDEV-28699 Shrink temporary tablespaces without restart
• MDEV-32104 remove deprecated features
• MDEV-31811 deprecate old_mode values
• MDEV-31474 KDF() function
• MDEV-28856 Spider: Implement more engine-defined options
• MDEV-3953 Add columns for ROWS_EXAMINED & ROWS_SENT to I_S and processlist
• MDEV-32203 Raise notes when an index cannot be used on data type mismatch
• MDEV-15935 Connection Redirection Mechanism in MariaDB Client/Server Protocol
• MDEV-29167 new db-level SHOW CREATE ROUTINE privilege
• MDEV-32526 Enable Charset Narrowing by default starting from 11.3
• MDEV-27247 Add keywords "SQL_BEFORE_GTIDS" and "SQL_AFTER_GTIDS" for START SLAVE UNTIL
• MDEV-24670 avoid OOM by linux kernel co-operative memory management
• MDEV-31626 implement inet4->inet6 cast
• MDEV-32113 utf8mb3_key_col=utf8mb4_value cannot be used for ref access

Q1 2024 (11.4)

• MDEV-4991 GTID binlog indexing
• MDEV-19177 Geometry support by the partition feature
• MDEV-22164 WITHOUT VALIDATION for EXCHANGE PARTITION/CONVERT IN
• MDEV-22597 Add views for periods in information_schema
• MDEV-24486 Easier way to retrieve all users that have privileges on a specific table
• MDEV-24670 avoid OOM by linux kernel co-operative memory management
• MDEV-27087 Add thread ID and database / table, where the error occured to SQL error plugin
• MDEV-27576 Use DESC indexes for MIN/MAX optimization
• MDEV-28367 BACKUP LOCKS on table to be accessible to those with database LOCK TABLES privileges
• MDEV-28861 Spider: Deprecate table options by COMMENT
• MDEV-30879 Add conversion to based 62 for CONV function
• MDEV-31404 Implement binlog_space_limit
• MDEV-31855 validate ssl certificates using client password
• MDEV-31857 enable --ssl-verify-server-cert by default
• MDEV-32101 CREATE PACKAGE [BODY] for sql_mode=DEFAULT
• MDEV-32216 mysqldump: use --tab (or another option) to increase performance and parallelism significantly
• MDEV-32589 FULL_NODUP mode for binlog_row_image
• MDEV-32617 deprecate secure_auth=0
• MDEV-32884 Make s3_debug dynamic
• MDEV-32894 mysqlbinlog flashback support binlog_row_image FULL_NODUP mode
• MDEV-33115 Update HeidiSQL